All Red Meat Is Bad For You

If pink slime weren’t enough to make you think twice about that burger, a newly released long-range study finds that eating any amount of red meat is bad for your health. The survey of 110,000 adults over 20 years found that adding just one three-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat to their daily diet increased participants’ risk of dying during the study by 13 percent. Adding a hot dog or two slices of bacon increased their risk by 20 percent. On the other hand, replacing beef or pork with nuts lowers your risk by 19 percent, and replacing them with poultry or grain lowers your risk by 14 percent. “Any red meat you eat contributes to the risk,” said An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of the study.


Source: Los Angeles Times