What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Meat?

The cancer-causing potential of two of the world’s most popular varieties of meat – red meat and processed meat. Red meat includes all kinds of muscle meat, such as beef, pork, mutton, lamb, veal, and horse.

Processed meat includes meat that has undergone processes, such as salting, curing, fermentation and smoking, and is no longer in its natural state. Processed meat includes pastrami, salami, beef jerky, sausages, ham, frankfurters (hot dogs), burger patty, canned meats and meat sauce among other things.
According to the report, constantly consuming processed meat is linked with colorectal cancer. The experts said that a person who consumes 50 grams of processed meat each day increases his or her risk of developing this cancer.

Here’s what happens to your body when your eating meat.

1. Your Heart Health Improves

Inflammation is your body’s resistance mechanism towards disease-causing microorganisms and viruses.

However, certain foods like meat are inflammatory and may allow the inflammation to persist. Persisting inflammation is an underlying cause of major diseases, including heart disease.

When you eat red meat, your body reacts to this foreign molecule by activating body inflammation as an immune response. When you eat meat regularly, your body keeps responding in this manner, allowing the inflammation to persist.

2. Increase The Risk of Cancer

Inflammation is an underlying cause for a variety of potentially fatal diseases and cancer is one among them.

Earlier studies determined connections between meat consumption and increased risk of certain cancers. High meat consumption is associated with the incidence of colorectal cancer.

When meat is cooked or even smoked at high temperatures, it releases certain chemicals that alter the human DNA and make them more sensitive to cancer.

Bile acids and neutral sterols are fats that occur with feces and are a high-risk factor for colon cancer should they be present in large amounts.

3. Your Chances of Living Longer Decreases

Eating meat, particularly red meat, and processed varieties may shorten your lifespan.

Substitution meat in your diet with vegetarian sources of protein, such as dairy products, legumes, and nuts, may increase your life span.

4. You Gain Weight

When people switch from a meat-dominated diet to a low- or no-meat diet, they start to lose weight as they turn to low-calorie, plant-based diets for overall nutrition.

Vegetarian and vegan diets are rich in whole grains, vegetables, and fruits that are incredibly rich sources of fiber. Fiber has always been positively related to lower body mass index (BMI) and weight. Moreover, plant-based foods are richer in nutrition and lower in calories.

5. Diabetes 

Insulin resistance is a state in which the body starts resisting insulin, the hormone that controls high blood sugar levels. This leads to Type 2 diabetes. Weight gain, especially abdominal weight, is associated with the development of diabetes

Red meats, especially processed varieties, contain high amounts of sodium, nitrates, and nitrites, all of which promote insulin resistance by inhibiting the activity of beta cells responsible for producing insulin.


6. Your Blood Pressure gets high

Red meat is also connected with high blood pressure. When the intestinal bacteria metabolizes red meat, it releases a compound called trimethylamine-N-oxide, and this compound might contribute to elevating blood pressure.

Moreover, red meat has a high amount of saturated fats. Regular consumption of saturated fats in the long term clogs arteries, which strains them as they have to work extra hard to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the heart. This strain is manifested through an increased blood pressure.


7. You Get Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain

You may have heard people who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) say that a certain diet proved helpful in alleviating their symptoms.


8. Trigger Acne 

Meat is a rich source of vitamin B12, an excess of which can trigger an acne breakout. This is the reason people whose diets are meat-dominated break out more frequently than occasional meat eaters and vegetarians.


When it comes to your diet and health, it is extremely important to make a well-informed decision. Whether you decide to eliminate meat from your diet or simply cut back, you must know how it will affect your body.

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