Fitness Lessons I Learned From Charlie Francis

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IKH, I am not so naive to think that there might not be a link between eating certain foods and cancer. What I was saying is that until someone proves definitively that it does, it’s anecdotal at best. Scienetific process needs to be preserved therefore until a single study shows a direct relation between red meat consumption and cancer, it cannot be said. It can be implied, but it will not be taken seriously throughout the medical and research community. Just as saturated fat was villified and now some research is coming around to say perhaps the threat is over rated. Cholesterol is villified yet you have Inuit who consume mass quantities and have no heart disease. I hate cancer as much as anyone having lost my father and other family members to it, but I need to see proof that it causes cancer, not a few research reports that imply it might. It’s much like the studies done on high fructose corn syrup. They show all these relations to obesity, yet 90% of the research isn’t done using a standard 50/50 blend of glucose to fructose, but rather a 80%+ fructose mix which isn’t the same at all. I am not arguing with you, but what results in cancer is far more individual and complex for one form of protein to be the root cause. Now, I avoid any meats with added nitrites and nitrates. Basically anything cured I try to avoid. Yes cancer is on the rise, yet the envoronment is completely full of chemicals. I think perhaps the culprit lies there and not in red meat. As far as many of the growth hormones in meat, I fail to see the issue as GH is a peptide and you know what happens when you digest peptide, amino acids. There is a reason we have no oral GH. Plus animal GH is specific to the animal. I just think we shouldn’t throw the baby out in the bath water. If you don’t like red meat, don’t eat it. As far as study funding goes, it certainly is problematic to not show bias based on funding sources, but ideally, that wouldn’t be an issue. Let the science rule, put bias and emotion on the sidelines where it belongs.

Yes, I agree 100%. People are attacking meat not even realizing that there are so many other forms of potential cancer causing situations they are putting themselves in.

Of the top if my head:

• Multiple X rays over the years

• Multiple passes though Airport “security” scanners.

• Contact with gasoline (smell your hand after you pump gas)/motor oil.

• Dangerous chemicals you work with (ie. Working with jet fuel).

• Smoking/Drinking

• You may live in a area where chemicals were dumped into the water system such as the people who live in Irvine California. The military dumped jet cleaning solution right in the aquifers. Cancer rate is much higher now in that area. Same with people who live around camp Lejeune in the East coast.

• People who live around airports or busy ship ports such as long beach, Ca.

• Living in contested areas where the smog can be seen in the skyline such as downtown Los Angeles.

• People who work in old buildings where the ventilation system and the structure of the building is contaminated with asbestos (i.e world Trade Center).

• Anybody working in the military who work with depleted uranium.

• Live around high voltage power lines?

Also, the Earth (via the Jet stream/ocean currents) is slowly accumulating contamination since I say the start of the industrial revolution. From there, to bombs, then nuke testing, to Chernobyl, to now pharmaceutical/medical waste being dumped in the ocean there is really no one fully safe place to go anymore.

AH! Thank GOD I have no kids, this place is no longer fit to raise a family. Earth is now a toxic battlefield where men ruthlessly kill each other.