The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) and American Meat Science Association (AMSA) released a new Meat MythCrusher video examining the link between red meat consumption and obesity. While popular media often link obesity with red meat consumption, Eric Berg, Ph.D., professor and associate head of animal sciences at North Dakota State University explains that while obesity rates have doubled since the first Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released in 1977, red meat consumption has decreased over the same time frame.
“Consumption trends, particularly the consumption of red meat has gone down,” said Berg. “Ironically this is inversely proportional to the prevalence of obesity and followed closely behind that is the prevalence of chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.”