{"id":3672,"date":"2009-05-04T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:16:59","slug":"the-health-cost-of-red-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"The (Health) cost of red meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Short feature &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/28\/health\/28brod.html?em\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Personal Health &#8211; Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8230; other things being equal, the men and women who consumed the most red and processed meat were likely to die sooner, especially from one of our two leading killers, heart disease and <a href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/disease\/cancer\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer.\"><font color=\"#004276\">cancer<\/font><\/a>, than people who consumed much smaller amounts of these foods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in mortality risk tied to the higher levels of meat consumption was described as \u201cmodest,\u201d ranging from about 20 percent to nearly 40 percent. But the number of excess deaths that could be attributed to high meat consumption is quite large given the size of the American population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extrapolated to all Americans in the age group studied, the new findings suggest that over the course of a decade, the deaths of one million men and perhaps half a million women could be prevented just by eating less red and processed meats &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short feature &#8211; Personal Health &#8211; Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8230; other things being equal, the men and women who consumed the most red and processed meat were likely to die sooner, especially from one of our two leading killers, heart disease and cancer, than people who consumed much smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}