What is it specifically about the western diet that is unhealthy? Is it the meat? As many of you will have gathered, this a question I have become interested in over recent years. I have watched many friends, family and others suffer with the countless manifestations of diet related disease and our entire health service is in the process of being crushed by it. So it is important to me.

The more I have looked at the evidence, the less I am convinced that meat is playing a causative role in this process and the more I think that its restriction may make things worse. To shed some light on this, I went to the epitome of junk food, McDonald’s, and ate nothing but their burger patties for two months.

It was a way to draw attention to the need to think a bit more carefully about what is in our food and which parts of it are beneficial, harmful or neutral.

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