Men think they have to eat meat to be manly and making sick

Shortly after commit myself, my family members began to express concern about the health of my future husband. You see, my boyfriend Ray is a man who is about to marry a pescatarian.

While I do not eat meat, I also plan to throw myself into the beam path if he wants to fix himself a hamburger. However, my grandmother, cousins ​​and even my sister everything seemed to assume that under my influence, would disappear on a steady diet of fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs, cheese, cereals and legumes.

To be fair, this is a fairly standard assumption. In the US, at least culturally speaking, still it seems to believe that men need meat. Only one problem: The close relationship between masculinity and meat is literally make sick men.

Until this year, the guidelines of the Government of the United States supported the idea that the meat was of men, if not, at least one basic element of a healthy diet. But in January dietary guidelines of the United States broke with tradition. You buried many pages in the federal dense document was a precaution aimed at men: "Some people, especially adolescent boys and adult men, they also have to reduce the total intake of protein foods by decreasing the intake of meat, poultry and eggs and increasing amounts of vegetables or other food groups consumed insufficiently ".

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