Should we eat more red meat?

Should we eat more red meat, not less? That’s the question posed by the a new study published by the journal Nutrients which found that blanket health messages to lower red meat intakes could have adverse implications on the micronutrient quality of women’s diets, particularly intakes of zinc and vitamin D. The secondary analysis of […]

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Red meat and the size of our brains

Many evolutionary biologists believe that a diet rich in red meat eaten by our ancestors was responsible for the dramatic increase in the size of our brains compared to other plant-eating primates. Gorillas, which have a plant-based diet for example, may grow to sizes three times bigger than us, but their brains are far smaller […]

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