Quote from killthesunshine:
are you blind? stupid, or both? i just posted this a day ago..
Eating three or more burgers a week may boost a child's risk of asthma and wheeze -- at least in developed nations -- reveals a large international study, published in Thorax.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100602193320.htm
LARGE INTERNATIONAL STUDY
From your article:
A heavy meat diet, however, had no bearing on the prevalence of asthma or wheeze.
Burger consumption could be a proxy for other lifestyle factors, they add, particularly as the increased asthma risk associated with it was not found in poor countries.
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Since you think that you know anything you should call up those researchers to look at the soybeans added to hamburger meat and buns in the industrialized countries as most restaurants use soy. Soybeans cause long-term asthma and sudden allergic reactions:
http://www.allergies-asthma-sinus-relief.org/allergy/soy-allergens.php
The Swedes began looking into a possible soybean connection after a young girl suffered an asthma attack and died after eating a hamburger that contained only 2.2 percent soy protein. A team of researchers collected data on all fatal and life-threatening reactions caused by food between 1993 and 1996 in Sweden, and found that the soy-in-the-hamburger case was not a fluke, and that soy was indeed the culprit. They evaluated 61 cases of severe reactions to food, of which five were fatal, and found that peanut, soy and tree nuts caused 45 of the 61 reactions. Of the five deaths, four were attributed to soy.
The four children who died from soy had known allergies to peanuts but not to soy. The amount of soy eaten ranged from one to ten grams -- typical of the low levels found when soy protein is used as a meat-extending additive in readymade foods such as hamburgers, meatballs, spaghetti sauces, kebabs, sausages, bread and pastries.
When soy is "hidden" in hamburgers and other "regular" foods, people often miss the connection to soy. And allergic reactions to soy do not always occur immediately, making cause and effect even harder to establish. As reported in the Swedish study, no symptoms -- or very mild symptoms -- occurred for 30 to 90 minutes after the consumption of the food containing soy. Then, the children suffered fatal asthma attacks. All had been able to eat soy without any adverse reactions right up until the dinner that caused their deaths.
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The problem that you are having is that you do not understand what an allergic reaction to actual meat is. Again, meat allergies are extremely rare:
http://www.thelocal.se/25968/20100408/
Three people have been diagnosed with rare red meat allergies at a Stockholm hospital over the past six months, as the extremely rare condition gains increasing attention among researchers.
"We have never previously examined a patient for meat allergies.
Stockholm South General Hospital cites a new report from US researchers which indicates that 24 people developed an allergy to red meat after having been bitten by ticks and sand fleas.