Dr. Oz: Does Red Meat Give You Cancer?
Dr. Oz talked about whether red meat gives you cancer. Many articles and studies are showing that there is a connection, but Dr. Oz said that we can still enjoy red meat without increasing our cancer risk, as long as we follow his simple steps.
Dr. Oz talked about how we can enjoy red meat without the risk of getting cancer by eating smaller portions, eating greens with it, and marinating it first. (Yulia von Eisenstein / Shutterstock.com)
Chris says
This is one of the most ridiculous pieces of garbage I have ever read. Can you please cite ANY resource where this has been extensively studied, published, and verified by scientists? Or does the word of Oz just make it scientific fact?
https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2014-12-29-sugar-molecule-in-red-meat-linked-to-cancer.aspx
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287494.php
Just to help you out a little bit, I can tell you what these articles are saying: red meat has Neu5Gc compound, which is a sugar compound that has been shown to cause cancer IN MICE. To directly quote the first link I posted, “The final proof in humans will be much harder to come by.” I’d also like to point out that the study was done by Ajit Varki and Nissi Varki who “are co-founders and have equity interest in SiaMab Therapeutics, Inc., a biotech company with an interest in Neu5Gc and anti-Neu5Gc antibodies.”
Well… isn’t that odd that they would find results like this?
And finally, I’d like to know, with all these links to cancer with red meat, what are the environments in which these people live and work? What other food are they eating with their red meat? There are an inexhaustible amount of variables in these equations to ever assume that red meat is the sole reason why a person is getting cancer, unless that person literally eats nothing but red meat, and never steps in any kind of environment that could in any way impact their health.
This article is garbage. This “science” is garbage. And Dr. Oz is garbage.