(The written guidance identifies “healthy fats” as olive oil, but also “butter or beef tallow.” Beef tallow is a fat Kennedy has personally endorsed, but is probably harder to easily depict in a drawing.)

With more of us focusing on protein, meat is taking up more of our plates. But which type of meat is healthiest? Here's how to choose, according to an RD.

Make no misteak — this is an unsavory obsession. Florida tattoo shop owner Wendy Marshall is so fond of raw meat that she scarfs 2 pounds of it daily. Ground chuck, cold cuts, whole roasts, porterhouses, the bloodier the better — Marshall devours it all.

“While it’s relatively easy to grow animal cells for mass food production you need to be able to grow them on something cheap, edible and that preferably provides a structure that resembles real meat,” study co-author and UCL medical researcher Richard Day explained in a statement.

Cultured meat is not inherently better for the environment. Leaping from “pharma to food” product is a significant technological challenge. Lab-grown meat, which is cultured from animal cells, is often thought to be more environmentally friendly than ...

“Meat sweats” is a colloquial term that describes a physiological response to consuming a large quantity of meat. When a person experiences meat sweats, they perspire excessively shortly after eating a substantial amount of meat. When an individual ...

One of the major problems for Beyond Meat ( BYND +1.02%) and the plant-based meat industry in general is the premium consumers must pay over standard beef. Beyond Meat's ground beef equivalent costs around $7 to $8 per pound at Walmart, and more at other retailers.

The new recommendations, released Wednesday by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture, are focused on health, but they also have implications for the climate. Beef is responsible for 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions per gram of protein than beans, peas and lentils.