Unhealthy Meat As Gary Blumenthal highlighted last week, a recent study from Harvard indicates that any consumption of red meat increases mortality risk. The author, An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's School of Public Health, said that no amount of red meat is good for you. The study was published online -- not in a medical or academic journal -- by the way. And there are some significant caveats not explained in the media coverage that one can discover by reading the study's abstract.
Of the "observed deaths" among men in the study, only 30 percent were from cardio vascular disease, even though the news articles made it sound like all deaths were meat-induced heart attacks. Among women in the study, 21 percent of the "obse...
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