In Western populations, individuals who eat more red meat may also engage in other unhealthy behaviors, confounding the association between meat and cardiovascular disease.

“well in some Western populations people who eat more meat do tend to have more cardiovascular disease well in Asia the men that eat the most red meat have the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease and the women who eat the most red meat had the lowest rates of breast cancer specifically I believe and that's a very big study in fact that's a conglomerate of multiple studies with over 200 000 participants ever called properly so what's happening in the U.S well the high level is that we've been told me it is bad for us for so long that the only people that eat red meat these days other than the listeners of this podcast of course are people who are doing other unhealthy behaviors”