Red Meat

"Eating less red meat helps reduce the risk of dying
prematurely, especially from cardiovascular disease
and cancer, suggests a new analysis from a long-term
study of more than 120,000 health care professionals,
recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine. People
who ate the most red meat (averaging two servings a
day) were 30 percent more likely to die over a two-
decade period than those eating little or none. That
included processed meats such as hot dogs and bologna.
This was true even when the researchers adjusted the
findings for major lifestyle factors and other dietary
variables. In contrast, people who ate fish, poultry, nuts,
beans, whole grains, and/or low-fat dairy products
instead of meat had a reduced mortality rate."

-University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter July 2012