More meat eats in the US than in many other countries of the world: is it harmful to health

Many people today are increasingly giving up meat, even burgers are prepared with its substitutes, writes DW... Young people and women are more willing to switch to vegetarianism and veganism. Yet they are a minority. The inhabitants of the planet eat a huge amount of meat and meat products every year.

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For example, US residents eat 124 kilograms of meat per capita every year. In Germany, meat is consumed less (12% of residents are vegetarians), but there is also no figure for a tendency towards refusal - 87 kg per person per year. Russians eat almost the same amount of meat per inhabitant per year - 76 kilograms. One of the lowest rates in India is only 3 kg per year per capita.

Vegetarianism is commonly associated with a healthy lifestyle, clean eating, and other benefits for the body, including potential longevity. But it turns out that with proper nutrition, meat eaters live longer than vegetarians, reports zakon.kz with reference to RIA Novosti.

This opinion was shared by the candidate of medical sciences, nutritionist Inna Kononenko.

“Everything in our body is practically made of protein. For vegetarians, the consequences of a lack of protein are not always immediately visible. This will become more apparent as we age,” she explained.

Kononenko drew attention to two indicators of the body's wear and tear. The first is the thickness of the vascular wall in the common carotid artery: the larger, the faster aging occurs. Due to the fact that vegetarians do not consume large amounts of cholesterol, their thickness of this wall will be lower than that of meat eaters.

“If a meat-eater consumes a sufficient amount of vitamins B12, D3, K2, then the thickness of this complex will not increase,” the doctor emphasized.

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The second marker of aging is the functioning of mitochondria. The specialist calls them “energy stations” of cells.

“They work worse for vegetarians than for meat eaters. This is due to the fact that meat is a source of l-carnitine, a substance necessary for the functioning of mitochondria. There is also an indicator characterizing the synthesis of our protein. Unfortunately, with a vegetarian or vegan diet, not all amino acids can be obtained by a person,” Kononenko said.

According to her, in the absence of a specific organic compound, the process of splitting and assimilating a specific protein is disrupted, which leads to problems with the growth of hair, nails, deterioration of vision, skin and blood vessels.

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