 Bobby just talks and he never shows studies. All right, guys. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today I have an episode of Show Me the Studies for you with a study that has been published in the International Journal of General Medicine. It is a cross-sectional data analysis of 175 contemporary populations. The vegans should absolutely love this episode. Let's have a look. Here you have the study and its totality. And I'm going to link it in the description box. But because I'm a dummy meathead, Bobby, we're just going to read the article today. Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide. Has eating meat become unfairly demonized as bad for your health? That's the question. A global multidisciplinary team of researchers has been studying and the results are in. Eating meat still offers important benefits for overall human health and life expectancy. Go figure. But study author, University of Adelaide Researcher in Biomedicine, Dr. Wen Peng Yu, says humans have evolved and thrived over millions of years because of the significant consumption of meat. We want to look more closely at research that has thrown a negative spotlight on meat consumption in the human diet. Dr. Yu says, looking only at correlations of meat consumption with people's health or life expectancy within a particular group and or a particular region or country can lead to complex and misleading conclusions. Oh, so you say correlation does not equate causation. Our team broadly analyzed the correlations between meat eating and life expectancy and child mortality at global and regional levels, minimizing the study bias and making our conclusion more representative of the general health effects of meat eating. An unbiased meat study? Impossible. Published in the International Journal of General Medicine today, the study examined the overall health effects of total meat consumption in 170 plus countries around the world. The researchers found that the consumption of energy from carbohydrate crops, grains and tubers does not lead to greater life expectancy and that total meat consumption correlates to greater life expectancy, independent of the competing effects of total calories intake. Just eat enough calories. Economic affluence, urban advantages and even obesity. Meat of small and large animals provided optimal nutrition to our ancestors who developed genetic, physiological and morphological adaptations to eating meat products. And we have inherited those adaptations. While detrimental effects of meat consumption on human health have been found in some studies in the past, the methods and findings in these studies are controversial and circumstantial. Dr. Yu says, senior author of the study, University of Adelaide, a meritus professor, Masier Heneberg. That's mouthful. Says humans have adapted to meat eating from the perspective of their more than two million years evolution. Meat of small and large animals provided optimal nutrition to our ancestors who developed genetic, physiological and morphological adaptations to eating meat products. And we have inherited those adaptations. Professor Heneberg says, before agriculture was introduced 10,000 years ago, meat was a staple food in the human diet. She says, depending on which minor groups of people you study and which meat types you choose to consider, the measure of meat's role in human health management may vary. However, when all meat types for all the populations are considered as they are in this study, the positive correlation between meat consumption overall health at a population level is not sporadic. Co-author, anthropologist at the University of Adelaide and biologist at the Polish Academy of Science, Dr. Arthur Sanjotis says the findings are in line with other studies that show cereal-based foods have lower nutritional value than meat. Oh, wow! I really need science to tell me that. While this is no surprise to many of us, yeah, it still needs to be pointed out. Dr. Sanjotis says it highlights that meat has its own components contributing to our overall health beyond just the number of calories consumed and that without meat in our diet, we may not thrive. Our take home message from the paper is that meat eating is beneficial to human health, provided that it is consumed in moderation and that the meat industry is conducted in an ethical way. All right, guys, and this is it for today's episode. The vegans always say, Bobby just talks and he never shows studies. Yeah, well, here you go. Here you have a study, a huge study on that note. I hope it helps, dear vegans. I hope it helps in your conversion back to eating nutritionally dense animal foods and reclaiming your health. All right, guys, but this is it for today's video. If you liked it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. If you want to support this channel, all the links are in the description box below. Please check them out. Thank you so much. As always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.