The Health Risks vs. Benefits of Meat Consumption
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2022-07-13

Do the benefits of meat outweigh the health risks? The meat industry’s own study concluded that meat consumption increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and premature death. 

What do relative risk numbers actually mean? See, for example, How Much Cancer Does Processed Meat Cause? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-cancer-does-processed-meat-cause/).
 
This is the sixth in an eight-part series on how industries impact dietary and health guidelines. The first five videos are:
●   How Big Sugar Undermines Dietary Guidelines (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-big-sugar-undermines-dietary-guidelines)
●   How Big Sugar Manipulated the Science for Dietary Guidelines (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-big-sugar-manipulated-the-science-for-dietary-guidelines)
●   Observational Studies Show Similar Results to Randomized Controlled Trials (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/observational-studies-show-similar-results-to-randomized-controlled-trials)
●   Failing GRADE for Annals of Internal Medicine Meat Studies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/failing-grade-for-annals-of-internal-medicine-meat-studies)
●   Conflicts of Interest in the Annals of Internal Medicine Meat Studies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/conflicts-of-interest-in-the-annals-of-internal-medicine-meat-studies)
 
The final two are How Big Meat Manipulated the Science (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-big-meat-manipulated-the-science) and How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-does-meat-affect-longevity).

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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