Pork is considered a red meat. But neither classifica tion defines a meat's fat content.
Chicken wings are white meat, for example, but they are high in fat.
On the other hand, red meats like beef or pork loin and tenderloin all qualify as lean. A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine compared a group of men and women with high blood cholesterol who ate 6 ounces of mostly lean red meat a day with a group eating the same amount of predominantly lean white meat. After 9 months, both groups had only small drops in blood cholesterol, with no difference between them. When it comes to red meat and cancer risk, the picture is still unclear. Some studies show that people who eat more red meat have a greater tendency to develop cancer.