Red meat causes higher risk for death

You've probably heard before that eating red meat is not healthy for you. This is true, red meat consumption should be limited and eaten in moderation because of it's high fat content, particularly high saturated fat content. Studies confirm that red meat consumption increases your risk for diabetes, heart disease, and certain types of cancers. But what about the length of your life? Red meat consumption increases your risk of death.
A new study came out that concluded this. The study analyzed data from the 2 large studies (The Nurse's Health Study and The Health Professionals Follow up Study) that involved more than 170,000 subjects and followed them over 28 years. The study found that for 1-serving-per-day of red meat, risk of death was increased by 12% for total red meat, 13% for unprocessed red meat, and 20% for processed red meat. Bacon and Hotdogs increased risk of death the most. Death causes included cancer and heart disease.
Replacing the amount of red meat a person consumes with more healthy proteins such as beans, fish, and chicken breast was associated with a lower risk of death.

So if you are a big red meat eater (steak, hamburgers, pork, meat loaf) replace some of that red meat with leaner proteins such as beans, fish, and chicken breast and increase the length of your life and lower your weight!

xoxo,
Danielle

I have been writing less health posts then I would like to lately because I have been so busy with my new job at the hospital. However, I will start writing a lot more again this week. So send me your health and weight loss  questions to my email daniellehamo@gmail.com and I will answer them! 

Source: Image: Suat Eman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: savit keawtavee / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: Suat Eman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: nuchylee / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image: lobster20 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Article: "Red meat consumption and mortality" published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.