3-24 news: Study indicates meat consumption raises chances of death
“The bottom line is we found an association between red meat and processed meat and an increased risk of mortality,” said Rashmi Sinha of the National Cancer Institute, who led the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“The uniqueness of this study is its size and length of follow-up,” said Barry Popkin, a professor of global nutrition at the University of North Carolina, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. “This is a slam-dunk to say that, ‘Yes, indeed, if people want to be healthy and live longer, consume less red and processed meat.’”