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New study links red meat to increased mortality.

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Well, this is slightly terrifying. Curb your Big Mac-and-beer recession stress eating, because a new study of over 500,000 middle-aged and elderly adults now claims that eating red meat increases the risk of dying earlier. The detailed study claims those who ate more than four ounces of red meat a day possess a 30 percent higher chance of dying, particularly of heart disease and cancer, only 10 years later. Eating fish, chicken, or turkey, on the other hand, decreased the risk of death.

Read it at The Washington Post

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