Should You Eat Red Meat?

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▼ Another diet study, another controversy and the public is left wondering what to make of it. This time it's a series of studies in the Annals of Internal Medicineby an international group of researchers concluding people need not reduce their consumption of red and processed meat.
Over the past few years, study after study has indicated eating red and  processed meatis bad for your healthto the point where the World Health  Organization lists red meat as a  probable carcinogen and processed  meat as a carcinogen.
This new study doesn't dispute the finding of a possible increased risk for heart disease, cancer and early death from eating meat. However, the panel of international nutritional scientists concluded the risk was so small and the studies of too poor quality to justify any recommendation.
So what does the new research actually say?
The authors conducted a study of studies. This is done when findings of one or two pieces of research may not be definitive. Or the effect of something is so small you need to pool smaller studies into a larger one. From this, the authors found reducing unprocessed red meat consumption by three servings in a week was associated with an approximately eight per cent lower lifetime risk of heart disease, cancer and early death.
These findings are similar to many studies before it and aren't surprising. However, this is a much smaller change in improved health than would be achieved by stopping smoking, eliminating hypertension or starting physical activity.
Where the authors differed from previous studies was in how they assessed both the research and the benefit of reducing meat consumption to make their recommendations. They used a standard practice in medicine to grade the quality of the studiesand found them to be poor. In addition, they interpreted the benefit of unprocessed red meat reduction (approximately eight per cent lower lifetime risk) to be small. They collectively recommended against the need for people to reduce meat consumption.
This sent nutrition and public health  scientists into an uproar, calling the study highly irresponsibleto public health and citing grave concerns.
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Very informative ...however the debate continues....Great share..