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Yes, that ubiquitous boilerplate advice that we all know so well by now eschewing red meat, processed meat, etc.
I remember years ago reading a study that in the south of France most fats were derived from poultry fat - either in the form of congealed fat (jewish shmaltz) or an oil, melted and used for cooking. Interestingly, it was NOT olive oil.
The lifespans in this area commonly exceeded 100 years….
So now what do we do with these two pieces of information? Do we say “Eat chicken fat - live to a hundred!”? Unfortunately that’s what most would say, knowing absolutely nothing about other lifestyle practices (smoking, alcohol, exercise, genetics, etc.).
We like our boilerplate and our slogans….just makes life easier, I guess…
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Read an article yesterday that discussed how chicken extended the life of people on prostate cancer. Just a quick search shows this.
Specifically, Wang's team found that men in the study who ate about 3.5 servings of poultry a week either before or after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, or both before and after, have a 10% to 20% lower risk of prematurely dying from all causes.
I don’t listen to that, but I eat a lot more than 3 1/2 servings because I have it almost every day with a salad because I need the protein. All of us prostate cancer patients on drugs need extra protein, so that our bones can heal quicker and you can build muscles more easily with more protein.