Is red meat unhealthy? This is a topic that currently has a lot of conflicting opinions around it.

On one end of the spectrum, we have people telling us that red meat causes cancer, causes heart

disease, and should be avoided at all costs. And then on the other end of the aisle,

we have people who say that red meat is a superfood,

that it's extremely nutrient dense and we should be eating it every day and building our diet around it.

But what's the truth? In this podcast episode, we are going to break down the science of this topic.

And we're going to talk about what red meat is. We're going to discuss the nutrition in red meat.

We're also going to discuss some of the potentially problematic ingredients in red meat.

And then we're going to talk about the studies that looked at the effect of red meat consumption

and health outcomes. And at the end of the episode, we're going to tie all of this information together to help

you to make decisions about your own consumption of red meat and whether or not you want

to include it in your diet.

And if you do, how much you should include into your diet.

So with that said, let's go ahead and jump into the episode.

Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise

and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

All right, so let's first start by defining what red meat is.

Very simply, red is meat that is red

when it is raw when it is uncooked and that red color is from a protein called myoglobin and this

myoglobin is found in higher quantities in these meats that are defined as quote unquote red meat

and red meat includes beef lamb lamb, pork, venison, and pretty much any other

meat that we regularly consume that wouldn't be classified as poultry, so chicken or turkey or

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