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As cancer, obesity and Diabetes rates continue to aggressively rise in US, parents are becoming more anxious to provide food and drinks which are beneficial and healthy to their kids.
A large factor in American diet is the quantity and frequency of meat consumption. Meat consumption might be important to provide a good source of protein and important factors such as heme, but due to sedentary lifestyles and inadequate physical exercise coupled with stress, unhealthy and untimely food consumption, intake of meat in traditional quantities has come into question.
Health conscious Americans have now started to distinguish between benefits of vegetarian and non-vegetarian foods, emphasizing organic foods over non-organic foods. Even within meat consumption, increasing number of Americans now restrict themselves to either sea food, or if they are concerned about consuming mercury (traditionally associated with high fish consumption), they might restrict themselves to white meat such as chicken and turkey.
Those American families which have a strong tradition of meat and sausage consumption, but suffer high rates of colon or other types of cancers in their families have begun to look at the frequency as well as quantity of their meat intake.
This means that a family or an individual who was consuming one pound of stake every week, might consider reducing the frequency to one pound per month, and perhaps even less.
Similarly, a family or an individual who were consuming sushi everyday might consider eating fish once a week.
As more scientific evidence in support of less red meat and even white meat consumption and better health emerges, it is likely that Americans will choose less meat, better health and less cancer over more meat and daily stakes.
However the meat industry will still thrive as higher margin organically produced meat might gain wider acceptance and the overall population in US rises over the next 40 years.
But per capita meat consumption might fall gradually.
