{"id":27195,"date":"2012-03-12T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27195"},"modified":"2012-03-12T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:02:29","slug":"bad-news-for-red-meat-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/03\/12\/bad-news-for-red-meat-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Red Meat Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New results from studies following more than 120,000 health care professionals link red meat consumption to higher mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. In <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/archinternmed.2011.2287\">a paper published in the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/archinternmed.2011.2287\">Archives of Internal Medicine<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0An Pan and colleagues report findings from up to 22 years of observation among 37,698 men enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and up to 28 years of observation among 83,644 women enrolled in the Nurses&#8217; Health Study.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the hazard ratios, after multivariable adjustment, for a 1-serving-per-day increase in unprocessed and processed red meat, respectvely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total mortality: 1.13 (CI 1.07-1.20) and 1.20 (CI 1.15-1.24)<\/li>\n<li>CVD mortality: 1.18 (CI 1.13-1.23) and 1.21 (CI 1.13-1.31)<\/li>\n<li>Cancer mortality: 1.10 (CI 1.06-1.14) and 1.16 (CI 1.09-1.23)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The authors calculated that replacing one serving per day of red meat with other foods like fish, poultry, nuts, legumes, low-fat dairy, and whole grains would result in a 7% to 19% reduction in mortality over the follow-up period.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/extract\/archinternmed.2012.174v1\">an invited commentary<\/a>, Dean Ornish writes that cutting out red meat is not only good for the health of the individual, but also good for the health of the planet. He recommends substituting red meat with plant-based foods &#8220;rich in phytochemicals, bioflavonoids, and other substances that are protective.&#8221; By contrast, Ornish cites studies in mice finding that high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets &#8220;may accelerate atherosclerosis through mechanisms that are unrelated to the classic cardiovascular risk factors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Animal agribusiness, according to Ornish, &#8220;generates more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined.&#8221; He concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world&#8217;s population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us\u2014ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.<\/p>\n<p>In short, don\u2019t have a cow!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New results from studies following more than 120,000 health care professionals link red meat consumption to higher mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. In a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine,\u00a0An Pan and colleagues report findings from up to 22 years of observation among 37,698 men enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[1166,297,306,295],"class_list":["post-27195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-carbohydrates","tag-diet","tag-protein","tag-red-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}