From Gary Taubes regarding the NYTimes article/red meat

[Deb]

http://garytaubes.com/

[Zizzle]

Yup, it's all about the unhealthy behaviors of the typical red-meat eaters versus the "health conscious" non-red meat eaters.

The obvious clue is that as we move from the bottom quintile of meat-eaters (those who are effectively vegetarians) to the top quintile of meat-eaters we see an increase in virtually every accepted unhealthy behavior — smoking goes up, drinking goes up, sedentary behavior (or lack of physical activity) goes up — and we also see an increase in markers for unhealthy behaviors — BMI goes up, blood pressure, etc. So what could be happening here?

[MBombardier]