A few years ago I was happy and surprised to learn that my neighbor who lives across the street from me ate a low carb diet which included plenty of red meat. I was talking with her just the other day and discovered that she is not eating nearly as low carb a diet as before although certainly many fewer carbs than an SAD but what surprised me is that she said, as if this is the wise things to do, that she only now ate red meat a few times a month and restricts her protein to white fish and chicken (maybe some others can't remember). This notion that red meat is bad for you has so permeated our society that people seem not to question it and announce their minimal ingestion of red meat as if it is an unquestioned sign of the healthy diet.