White meat and health

• White meat and health :The Chicago Centre for Clinical Research and its Centre for Nutrition and Metabolism conducted a research on 200 people to study the comparative effects of lean white and lean red meat. The subjects chosen were those with high cholesterol levels. Half of the subjects were asked to have red meat (lean) while the other half were asked to have white meat (lean). The prescribed quantity was to be around 180grams per day over 5 days in a week at least. The subjects were educated in how to choose areas that were low on fat, how to cook it in a particular manner so as to keep other conditions same during the test trials. Fish was also included in the diet of white meat users.
  The results reported were that there was not much significant difference between lean cut red meat and lean cut white meat, which essentially means that if one is not open to eating chicken or fish, then lean red meat is an alternative that can be taken recourse to.
  Experts advise consumers to eat whatever the want, but keep it ‘lean’ and the quantity, ‘moderate’.
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  All the essential nutrients in meat are found in the lean parts.
  The white meat is generally preferred in the United States while other countries choose the dark meat.
  A 15-pound turkey typically has about 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat.
  The two types of meat differ nutritionally. White meat has fewer calories and less fat than dark meat.
  In January 2008, the rocketing price of more conventional meats due to bird flu quarantines and world oil prices doubled the market price of rat meat in Cambodia. Rats are just another source of white meat protein.
  Cambodians in certain provinces have long caught rats as a protein source when rodent numbers reach a peak during the rice harvest and enjoy the meat roasted or dried as a snack while drinking