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No need to cut down red and processed meat, study says
Most people can continue to eat red and processed meat as they do now. A major study led by researchers at McMaster and Dalhousie universities has found cutting back has little impact on health.
A panel of international scientists systematically reviewed the evidence and have recommended that most adults should continue to eat their current levels of red and processed meat.
The researchers performed four systematic reviews focused on randomized controlled trials and observational studies looking at the impact of red meat and processed meat consumption on cardiometabolic and cancer outcomes.
In one review of 12 trials with 54,000 people, the researchers did not find statistically significant or an important association between meat consumption and the risk of heart disease, diabetes or cancer.
In three systematic reviews of cohort studies following millions of people, a very small reduction in risk among those who had three fewer servings of red or processed meat a week, but the association was uncertain.
The authors also did a fifth systematic review looking at people's attitudes and health-related values around eating red and processed meats. They found people eat meat because they see it as healthy, they like the taste and they are reluctant to change their diet.
The five systematic reviews, a recommendation and an editorial on the topic were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine today.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by theluggage on Wednesday October 02 2019, @06:04PM
Whups - Muphrey's law was strong in this one.
The correct confidence interval was -26 to -11 (-18 to -4 came from the next, similarly titled, row) so 18 was the central value and I apologise for suggesting that the GP cherry=picked the extreme end of the range.
The point about how presenting risk as a % change in the number of victims rather than as the number of extra cases in the general population stands, though.
Oh, yes, and there's a missing zero...