Interestingly, potentially correlated responses to divergent selection were observed for breast meat traits as well as for growth rate.
Previous association studies revealed several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that explained the observed phenotypic variation for meat tenderness and long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content of Australian lamb.
Due to the observed U-shaped association between meat and health [ 5], moderate consumption of meat was deemed beneficial.
Despite using the different methods, a similar effect was observed for fresh red meat consumption and the reduced risk of hip, but not knee replacement, providing further support for the beneficial effect of fresh red meat consumption on hip replacement risk and also suggesting that the observed effect was not dependent on the instrument used to determine meat intake.
Thus, the observed positive associations between intake of red meat and processed meat and CRP, and CRP and risk of type 2 diabetes may indicate that CRP mediates the association between intake of meat, especially red and processed meat, and risk of type 2 diabetes.
Even though we speculate that the observed associations between pan-fried meats and CRC risk are driven by formation of HCAs, in our study, the observed associations for the three considered individual HCAs were weak.
We can therefore estimate here, a relative intestinal bioaccessibility for Pb from ammunition in our game meat by dividing our observed bioaccesibility values by 0.143.
The authors acknowledged that it remained unclear whether the observed associations were causative or whether meat consumption was a marker for other lifestyle factors.
The nature of meat product can explain the observed difference in terms of number of species.
Furthermore, components of meat that may explain the observed associations (i.e., saturated fat, vitamin B12, and heme iron) were added to the model one by one, but inclusion of these components did not change the interpretation of the results.
In spite of the fact that some isolates were from healthy flocks, it could not be ruled out that astroviruses caused the observed health problems and poor performance of meat-type turkey flocks in Poland.
