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Thank you. 17% cancer risk per 100g daily red meat is an alarming correlation. That’s what I was hoping to find out, so I appreciate it. Is two pork steaks a d

Thank you. 17% cancer risk per 100g daily red meat is an alarming correlation. That’s what I was hoping to find out, so I appreciate it. Is two pork steaks a day really an amazing amount? Usually it’s one (often none), but if I didn’t eat anything else, two is about how many I’d go through. I honestly had no clue it was far outside the norm… Interesting. Ironically I’m half Jewish, so maybe there’s a genetic craving after thousands of years of pork denial. Well, I guess I’ll downshift away from red meats as I push 40. Luckily my other vice is apples (one time I bought so many that the cashier was convinced we were making apple pies, but I told her it’s my standard weekly intake) so the transition won’t be too jarring. Cheers.

olnluis 3y ago
Glad that helped! If it serves as a guideline, the calorie tracking app I use has a default serving suggestion of 100-150g, raw, for different meats. So even 2 servings of those, twice a day, would still be around half of 2 of those steaks, which happens to be about what I eat in a day, between chicken and lean beef. Different things come to mind with the size of those steaks but honestly I would just be assuming things and spouting probable nonsense. If they're packaged raw, I would check if they're heavily injected with water to boost the marketable weight. If it's not cheap meat it's probably not an issue.
- sofixa 3y ago
  > If it serves as a guideline, the calorie tracking app I use has a default serving suggestion of 100-150g, raw, for different meats Out of curiosity, what's the app name?
  - olnluis 3y ago
    Fitia. I don't think there's anything special about it compared to other nutrition tracking apps, but it does the job.
ejolto 3y ago
> Thank you. 17% cancer risk per 100g daily red meat is an alarming correlation. It is an increase of 17%, not 17% cancer risk. 1.51% cumulative risk of colon cancer among men age 0–74 years, and a 1.12% risk among women. [0] If you eat 100g red meat daily you increase that risk to ~1.7667% for men and ~1.3104% for women. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791134/

olnluis 3y ago

Glad that helped! If it serves as a guideline, the calorie tracking app I use has a default serving suggestion of 100-150g, raw, for different meats. So even 2 servings of those, twice a day, would still be around half of 2 of those steaks, which happens to be about what I eat in a day, between chicken and lean beef. Different things come to mind with the size of those steaks but honestly I would just be assuming things and spouting probable nonsense. If they're packaged raw, I would check if they're heavily injected with water to boost the marketable weight. If it's not cheap meat it's probably not an issue.

sofixa 3y ago
> If it serves as a guideline, the calorie tracking app I use has a default serving suggestion of 100-150g, raw, for different meats Out of curiosity, what's the app name?
- olnluis 3y ago
  Fitia. I don't think there's anything special about it compared to other nutrition tracking apps, but it does the job.

ejolto 3y ago

> Thank you. 17% cancer risk per 100g daily red meat is an alarming correlation. It is an increase of 17%, not 17% cancer risk. 1.51% cumulative risk of colon cancer among men age 0–74 years, and a 1.12% risk among women. [0] If you eat 100g red meat daily you increase that risk to ~1.7667% for men and ~1.3104% for women. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791134/