Are red meat and eggs diet essentials?
No, red meat and eggs are not essential in our diet. One can live a healthy life without red meat and eggs. As a matter of fact, abstinence from red meat and eggs , and other high fat/cholesterol food items, will confer a healthier life for us, as long as we eat other proteins, like beans, nuts, tofu/other soya products, fish, yes, especially fish. Why do red meat and eggs taste good? The taste of food is in the fat molecules. That’s why red meat, especially the fatty portion, and egg yolk, taste so good. That tells you how much fat is in them. If one totally removes all the fats in, say, a piece of pork or beef, doing this scientifically in the laboratory under the microscope, the end result would be a practically tasteless piece of meat, one that would taste like rope fibers. Cutting out the fats from red meat at the dining table does not really remove all the fats. At best, we could perhaps shave off 20% of the total fats in the meat we eat. To think that we can “cut out the fat” of
