If you’re trying to cut back your meat consumption to help the planet, new research suggests there might be some health benefits to gain too.
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Key points
- Study finds higher intake of meat is linked to small increase in risk of heart disease
- Regular fish consumption was not found to be associated with poor health outcomes
- Experts say results should be interpreted with caution, but recommend limiting meat consumption
US researchers have discovered you don’t need to be a heavy meat eater to face a small but increased risk of heart disease and death — and that sticking to chicken isn’t necessarily risk-free either.
In a bid to investigate the link between meat, poultry, fish and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death, scientists analysed long-term dietary and health outcome data of 30,000 US adults.
They found people who ate two or more servings of processed meat or red meat per week faced a slightly higher risk of death.
And eating two or more serves of red meat, processed meat or poultry per week was associated with a higher risk — an increase of between 3 and 7 per cent — of developing cardiovascular disease.
The higher the intake of meat, the higher th