Is eating more tuna and chicken meat good for your diet?

Answer 1

Yes, Tuna or chicken is a part of a good diet. Just remove as much skin of the chicken. The best way to do with them is grilling. In such a way, you do not fat in them but the grilling takes away most of the fat. They are best used for whole wheat bread as Sandwiches. Eat lots of greens so you get mush needed nutrients.

Answer 2

Yes, skinless chicken roasted or poached is an excellent source of dietary protein. The methods used to cook the chicken often add fat and excess calories. White chicken meat without skin is low in calories.

Answer 3

No. Eating more tuna and chicken meat is not good for your diet. It's terrible for the chickens and the tuna. Finally, animal agriculture and commercial fishing are leading causes of environmental destruction and resource depletion.

Eating Chicken and Tuna Increases Your Risk of Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer

Chicken and tuna contain cholesterol and saturated fat and contribute to America's top killers: heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and various types of cancer. Decades of scientific study have linked dietary cholesterol to cardiovascular disease, which is the number-one cause of death in the United States, killing nearly 2,200 Americans daily. Saturated fat is present in all chicken and tuna, even when grilled without the skin. Heavy metals are concentrated in tuna because of the contaminated fish they eat. Heavy metals attack your heart muscle. Per a study published in the American Heart Association’s journal, men with the highest levels of mercury increased their risk for heart disease by 60 percent and their risk of dying of a heart attack by 70 percent.

Additionally, per a study published by the American Diabetes Association, people who eat high amounts of animal protein are 22 percent more likely to develop diabetes.

Saturated fat has even been linked to Breast cancer, as well as Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and cognitive decline. Many studies from top universities and independent researchers have found that eating chickens, tuna, and other animals promotes cancer in many forms, the most common forms being breast, prostate, and colon cancers. Large studies in England and Germany showed that vegetarians were about 40 percent less likely to develop cancer compared to meat-eaters.

Several hypotheses may explain the connection between meat consumption and cancer risk. First, meat is devoid of fiber and other nutrients that have a protective effect against cancer. Meat also contains animal protein, saturated fat, and, in some cases, carcinogenic compounds such as heterocyclic amines (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which are formed during processing or cooking.

Meat also contains hormones, which increase your cancer risk. When you eat meat, you are ingesting the naturally-occurring sex hormones present in the animals when they were killed. The sex hormones progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen are all naturally occurring in animals, whether they've been given artificial hormones or not, so when you eat those animals, you're also eating hormones that you don’t need.

Eating Chicken and Tuna Increases Your Risk of Foodborne Illness

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that 70 percent of food poisoning is caused by contaminated animal flesh. Foodborne diseases, such as E. Coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter, cause an estimated 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. When many chickens are confined into a tight space, it’s a breeding ground for bacteria, including salmonella and E. coli. In addition, animal flesh is often tainted with fecal contamination during slaughter or processing. Fecal contamination in chicken, especially, is a major problem. Per a Consumer Reports study, 97 percent of raw chicken in U.S. supermarkets is contaminated with salmonella that could make customers sick. Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 85 percent of urinary tract infections are caused by the strain of E. coli bacteria found in chicken. As bad as chicken is, seafood is the number one cause of food poisoning in the United States.

Eating Animal Flesh Contributes to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

Factory farms are breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as “superbugs.” Roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the United States each year are given to animals that are used for food, to promote growth in animals and to keep them alive in horrific living conditions that would otherwise kill them. Many new strains of superbugs have thus developed. Vancomycin, a drug that is known as a “last defense” in fighting the deadly blood infections and pneumonia caused by staphylococcus bacteria, is becoming obsolete because resistant strains have developed in farmed animals who are given the drug.

Chickens Are Contaminated with Arsenic, Chlorine, and Hydrogen Peroxide, and Fish is Contaminated with Mercury

Arsenic is put into the chickens’ feed to improve the pink coloring in raw chicken meat. In 2013, people were worried when they found out that as much as 36 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic was found in apple juice. Chicken can have as much as 430 ppb, which is 30 times more than apple juice.

Factory farms are no longer required to test for E. coli and salmonella. Instead, they can just dunk the chickens into chlorine and hydrogen peroxide to streamline production.

Tuna fish accumulate toxic mercury in their flesh because of industrial pollution. The side effects of mercury poisoning include finger curling, cognitive impairment, and coordination problems. A California boy, who was the subject of a front-page Wall Street Journal article, went from being a star athlete and honor student to being unable to concentrate or catch a football because he ate canned tuna. Even if he had eaten only half a can of albacore tuna a week, he still would have consumed 60 percent more mercury than is considered “safe” by the U.S. government.

Eating Animal Flesh May Shorten Your Life

In large part because of all the health risks mentioned above, meat eaters just don't live as long as vegetarians and vegans. Per a study of over 70,000 people published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, vegetarians were 12 percent less likely to have died during a six-year follow-up period than their meat-eating peers. Vegetarian men live to an average of 83.3 years, compared with non-vegetarian men, who live to an average of 73.8 years. Vegetarian women live to an average of 85.7 years, which is 6.1 years longer than non-vegetarian women, per the Adventist Health Study-2.

Eating Animal Flesh Makes It Harder to Maintain a Healthy Body Weight

Meat-eaters are over three times more likely to be obese than vegans. On average, vegans are 10 to 20 pounds lighter than adult meat-eaters. Vegetarian diets are also associated with higher metabolic rates (around 16 percent faster for vegans compared with meat-eaters).

Eating Animal Flesh May Contribute to Erectile Dysfunction In Men

Per the Erectile Dysfunction Institute, up to 90 percent of all cases of impotence are physical as opposed to psychological, meaning that the high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, prostate cancer or inflammations, and hormonal imbalances caused by eating meat might also contribute to impotence. A study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also suggests that men who couple regular exercise with a diet rich in flavonoids, which are found in fruits like strawberries, blueberries, and apples, may reduce their risk of developing Erectile Dysfunction by over 20 percent. Numerous physicians and nutritionists agree that the best way to prevent artery blockage as well as multiple other conditions that can cause impotence is to eat a diet high in fiber, including plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Eating chicken and tuna leaves less room on your plate for fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and adds health risks.

Humans have no biological need to consume chicken meat or tuna, or any other animal flesh or secretions, for that matter. Eating animal flesh and secretions not only hurts human health, it hurts the animals and the environment as well.