Red meat, beware. Consuming more than 50 grams of meat a day can seriously endanger the health of our body, causing heart attacks, diabetes and bowel cancer. This is what emerges from new research conducted at the University of Cambridge, which again takes into consideration the excessive presence of meat in our diet.
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Red meat, Attention. Consume more than 50 grams of red meat per day can seriously endanger the health of our organism, causing heart attacks, diabetes e bowel cancer. This is what emerges from new research conducted at the University of Cambridge, which again takes into consideration the excessive presence of meat in our diet.
Experts were able to ascertain how a daily consumption of meat over 50 grams for men and for the only ones 30 grams for women is not at all beneficial to health. The amount of meat consumed each day it should therefore be drastically downsized compared to the data representing the average: 90 grams for men and 54 grams for women.
Each 50 grams of extra red meat ingested every day would increase the risk of diseases in the cardiovascular system by 50%, with particular reference to coronary heart disease. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes or getting bowel cancer would increase by 18-19%.
According to the experts and on the basis of what the doctor said Louise Aston, at the head of the study published in the pages of the British Medical Journal, decreasing the consumption of meat would mean not only drastically reducing the risk of contracting chronic diseases, but also determining the cutting emissions of 28 million carbon dioxide per year, considering this figure as relating only to England.
This would contribute to a decrease in the greenhouse effect, which unfortunately contributes to deforestation for the creation of new pastures and the effects of the presence of intensive breeding of cattle. Still in the opinion of experts, to get health benefits, everyone should decrease the consumption of salt, as well as red meat, and enrich the diet with fruit, vegetables, legumes and foods rich in fiber. So are we all destined to become vegetarians by 2050 to save ourselves and the planet?
Marta Albè
