Does Eating Meat Increase Your Risk of Dying?

Does Eating Meat Increase Your Risk of Dying?
What the Evidence Reveals
by www.SixWise.com

http://www.sixwise.com/Newsletters/2009/April/29/Does-Eating-Meat-Increase-Your-Risk-of-Dying.htm?source=nl

Asking a meat lover to give up burgers and steaks is likely to evoke some powerful opposition, just as asking a vegetarian to sit down to a plate of meatballs would. Yet, increasing evidence appears to be confirming that eating a meat heavy diet may, indeed, be bad for your health.

This is certainly not what a largely meat-loving nation like the United States wants to hear. According to the Agriculture Department, Americans ate 119 pounds of red meat each in 2008, which amounts to just over two pounds a week, along with 106 pounds of poultry.

What does the evidence really say about meat and your health, and is there possibly more to the scenario than meets the eye?

The Research on Meat-Eating Doesn’t Look Good

The latest evidence, a federal study of more than half a million American men and women, found that eating meat does raise mortality risk.

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