Nigerians have been warned to avoid this type of
meat as it causes cancer, heart disease and shortens
your life.


New research has linked both red and processed
meat to a higher risk of certain health conditions,
such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and even
some cancers.

Previous studies have examined the effects of eating moderate-to-high amounts of meat on mortality.

However, the impact of consuming a small amount
has remained largely untested.

Researchers at Loma Linda University Health in
California aimed to address this imbalance in a new
study, according to a report by Medical News
Today.


“We wanted to take a closer look at the association
of low intakes of red and processed meat with all-
cause, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer mortality
compared to those who didn’t eat meat at all,”
states lead author Saeed Mastour Alshahrani.

The team’s findings suggest that eating small amounts of red and processed meat could increase
a person’s risk of death.

Another study provides more evidence that a plant-
based diet is healthful.

The researchers used data from people who took
part in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2).

Between 2002 and 2007, this cohort study recruited
close to 96,000 Seventh-day Adventists living in the
U.S. and Canada.

Adventists are an interesting group for scientists
looking into factors relating to the diet. About half
of these believers are vegetarian, and those who do
choose to eat meat consume very little of it.

To see whether meat consumption had any effect
on mortality, researchers analyzed two factors. The
first was the cause of death of more than 7,900
Adventists over an 11-year period. The second was
a dietary assessment of the same individuals using
food frequency questionnaires.

The researchers noted that meat intake was low.
Among the people who reported consuming meat,
90 percent ate 2 ounces or less of red meat per
day.

When they evaluated the deaths, the investigators
found that cardiovascular disease was responsible
for almost 2,600 of them, while more than 1,800
deaths related to cancer.

The results, which feature in the journal Nutrients,
showed that there was an association between the
consumption of a combination of red and processed
meats and a higher risk of both total and
cardiovascular disease deaths. Processed meat
alone did not show a similar trend.

Certain groups appeared to be more susceptible to
specific meat types. For example, unprocessed red
meat was “significantly” related to a risk of all-
cause mortality for white people but not for black
people. When the researchers looked specifically at
the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, they
noted that this was only significant among women
and black people.


Black people and women also had an increased risk
of all-cause mortality from eating processed meat.
However, the team only identified a link between
processed meat consumption and cardiovascular
disease in women.

The researchers did not report any significant
findings relating to cancer, but they noted that other
studies have found evidence of a relationship
between meat intake and this disease. As a result,
they suggest that this association may only become
apparent with higher meat consumption.


The authors of the new study believe that their work
supports previous conclusions. “Our findings give
additional weight to the evidence already suggesting
that eating red and processed meat may negatively
impact health and lifespan, ” comments Michael
Orlich, Ph.D., co-author of the study and co-director
of AHS-2.

The study also shows something new by
demonstrating that eating even a small amount of
red and processed meat could be worse for health
than eating none.


The study has both strengths and limitations.
Researchers adjusted the results for various factors,
including obesity, physical activity, and low intake of
fruit and vegetables.

To strengthen the findings, they also took into
account specific dietary factors, such as intake of
dairy, whole grains, and legumes. It also helped that
relatively few of the participants smoked or drank
alcohol.

However, the study relied on questionnaires, which
could cast doubt over the results because people
may not recall consuming food that they eat very
little of or consume irregularly.

More research will be necessary to support the
findings of this study. It is also still unclear precisely
what causes red and processed meat to lead to
adverse health outcomes.

-NAN

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Wetin una wan man pikin to be eating nowadays. Watch before 2yrs time dem go say make we no de drink water again. All these scientist, we wan hear the solution to the following problems, cancer, aids, kidney and liver diseases and so many other sicknesses that has bedeviled mankind.

Nowadays I want to start eating animals from neck to toe.
I read in reliable sites that eating the full animal provides protein as well as needed vitamins for a healthy life.