Meat industry braces for WHO cancer risk verdict

As international health experts prepare to publish a report on potential cancer risks linked to red and processed meat, industry groups are bracing for a damaging blow to consumer confidence.

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Experts Say Processed Meat May Cause Cancer And So Red Meat

Eating processed meat can cause bowel cancer in humans while red meat is a likely cause of the disease,

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How Meat Consumption Affects Our Health

Meat stands to divide people into two different groups, some carrying with them varying morals and in many cases misconceptions about what it means to be healthy.   

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Animal Products Found To Be A Major Risk Factor Of Cancer

the journal Nutrients, analyzed data from 2008 to see how often 21 types of cancers occurred in 157 countries, 87 of which had reliable cancer data.

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84% Of Non-Meat Eaters Abandon Their Diet For Animal Products

A new report from the Human Research Council (HRC) found only one in five new vegetarians and vegans sticks with the diet. The rest find their way back to animal products after less than a year.

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Frequent red meat eaters at higher risk of stroke

A high-protein diet might benefit health in some ways, but depending on what kind of protein a person consumes, it could raise their stroke risk too, suggests a large new study that finds eating lots of red meat ups the likelihood of having a stroke while poultry lowers it.

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Animal Products Found To Be A Major Risk Factor On Cancer

The study, published in the journal Nutrients, analyzed data from 2008 to see how often 21 types of cancers occurred in 157 countries, 87 of which had reliable cancer data.

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Meat Addict - Ignore Meat And Learn To Live With Vegetable

Vegetarianism can be adopted for different reasons. Many object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs, along with animal rights. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic or economic.

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Heart Failure Linked To Processed Meat

For best heart health, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommend a diet that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, poultry, fish and nuts.

They also suggest eating fish high in omega-3 - such as salmon, trout and herring - at least three times a week.

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Food Products Again Found To Be A Major Risk Factor Of Cancer

A study that took a big-picture look at environmental health risks found that a majority of cancers around the world are connected to three activities that we know are bad for us: smoking, taking meat products, and consuming alcohol.

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Processed meat ‘significantly harms sperm quality’

Men who eat just one rasher of bacon a day could be reducing their chances of becoming fathers. Half a portion of processed meat such as a rasher or a small sausage can significantly harm sperm quality, scientists believe.

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Red meat may raise Alzheimer's risk

Eating too much red meat, which raises brain levels of iron, may heighten the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, researchers from the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA reported in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

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