Diet Series Matchup #2: Vegetarian vs Flexible Dieting!

Kickback Science With Dr. Luke

Welcome to another matchup of the Kickback Science Diet Series! This week's matchup is; Vegetarian vs Flexible Dieting.
In this episode, we talk a lot about the research surrounding meat intake. Is meat good/bad? Is red meat better/worse? Why the nutrition industry has failed you when it comes to the interpretation of the literature, and some crazy stuff that seems to be happening behind the scenes within the industry itself.
We also talk about flexible dieting. How it works/doesn't work for some people, and how you could potentially utilize the approach to meet your dieting goals.
And of course, we pick a winner at the end of the matchup, which is entirely based on the available evidence suggesting benefits/risks of the various dieting approaches.
REFERENCES:
7th Day Adventists study on meat intake: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/148/8/761/69260
THE OH SO CLASSIC 2012 RED MEAT AND MORTALITY PRESS RELEASE FROM HARVARD!!! https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/red-meat-consumption-linked-to-increased-risk-of-total-cardiovascular-and-cancer-mortality/
RCT of different types of meat on CVD risk: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522011492?via%3Dihub
Restricted diets are more associated with eating disorders: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666301904453?via%3Dihub
Systematic review of meta analyses showing that meat is NOT harmful to our health (the article that cause a lot of controversy among the "non meat" folks: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-0622
Meat intake has no risk, as long as you have additional fruit, vegetables, and specifically fiber!: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32751091/
Study from Italy showing that meat intake REDUCED mortality risk: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34849845/
Potential corporate ties within the nutrition industry: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2759201
Crazy email from the "plant based" community to the Cheif Editor of the Annals of Internal Med: https://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/Annals-letter.9-30-19.pdf
top 10 foods consumed in the US: https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/top-10-sources-of-calories-in-the-us-diet
Harvard complaining about the 2019 studies regarding red meat and the lack of health risks associated: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2019/09/30/flawed-guidelines-red-processed-meat/