Just half a serving per day more of red meat was associated with a 10% increased risk in premature death, the study showed.
USA TODAYIncreasing the amount of red meat you eat can increase your risk of early death, a study that tracked more than 80,000 people's eating habits found.
"This long-term study provides further evidence that reducing red meat intake while eating other protein foods or more whole grains and vegetables may reduce risk of premature death," study author Frank Hu of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health said in a statement.The study was published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed British Medical Journal.
The researchers tracked 27,916 men and 53,553 women from two groups between 1986 and 2010 and looked at their red meat consumption over eight-year periods and their health in eight years that followed. "Changes in behavior are fairly illuminating, and diagnostic," he told the public broadcaster. However, the study is observational and can only prove an association, not causation. Sherman said a weakness of the study is that its can't fully control for independent factors that may be adding to the trend.
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