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If you’ve read any of my blogs or listened to any of my podcasts, you probably know how high a value I place on the foods we choose to eat. But I also know that there are many voices on social media and media, in general, that give us conflicting stories on what foods are best. It seems that food fear-mongering has become the norm, which can make any simple food choice feel like a life-altering decision. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If we clear out the media noise and focus on the foods we really like to eat, how they make us feel, and how they help us to achieve our personal goals, then the choice becomes more simplified. No other food category have I seen targeted with so much negativity than red meat. For some reason, it has been labeled as “bad”. And quite honestly, if you do a simple Google search on the negative impacts of red meat, you will see a litany of articles and cited studies linking red meat to all types of maladies. If you dig a little deeper, though, reading the studies mentioned, but then also looking at the conflicting studies, you will notice that the studies cited are observational, not randomized controlled studies. (To break that down, observational studies simply look at two unrelated studies and make a correlation, randomized controlled studies directly study an impact on a control group). So, the observational study can make inferences, but not directly associate cause and effect. The TeacherFit Podcast is powered by our TeacherFit Partner Schools: Learn more: Schools.TeacherFit.com