Study suggests link between eating red meat and Crohn's disease

[flamingyouth]

This article is currently in LBN. I thought it was interesting because it also mentions cancers of the colon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1529645,00.html

I used to have a lot of digestive problems. When I stopped eating meat, just about all of them went away. I used to wake up sick in the night with crushing pain in my abdomen, it was awful. Meat was literally making me sick.

[smbolisnch]

1. Interesting article...

Colon cancer is common in this family....I will make sure to pass this on to my mom. Thanks for posting!

[LeftyMom]

2. I had digestive problems too

from early childhood on that resolved themselves about 70% when I stopped eating meat and about 20% of the remainder when I quit eating dairy. I was medicated all through childhood for the issues, but nobody even thought to change my diet.

[livinginphotographs]

3. A friend of mine was saying the same thing today

He still eats meat, but he mentioned that he went vegetarian for about a month (and he's always had intestinal problems) and his stomach problems cleared up right away.

Not sure why he went back to eating meat.... :shrug:

[Catchawave]

4. Meat is an addiction, IMHO,

Otherwise I don't think I'd fall off the vege wagon so much.

From The Meat Junkie:

"Everyone now knows that smoking will kill you. Most people also understand that a lifetime spent eating meat isn't much healthier. Few Americans, however, seem to realize that every year meat-related diseases kill twice as many people as tobacco. And perhaps that's why I've never seen a public service announcement encouraging people to quit meat, or a congressman suggest a meat tax, or a state bring a public health lawsuit against Big Beef. Then again, this apathy towards eat might be explained by a very simple misunderstanding. Perhaps Americans believe that unlike tobacco, meat is not addictive. If so, I'm here to tell you otherwise. My name is Tyler Cole, and I'm a recovering meat addict."

His essay is continued at:

http://www.meatjunkie.com/essays/addiction.php