Friday, March 16, 2007

Red Meat Contributes to Breast Cancer

Not to my surprise, there is another reason to avoid red meat, especially if you are a woman. A new study suggests that women who eat more than three ounces a day of red meat are at greater risk for breast cancer.
The study said that women who reported eating more than one and a half servings of red meat per day almost had twice the risk of developing hormone receptorpositive cancer compared with women who reported eating three servings of red meat per week.
This is just another example if why people should not eat red meat. Not only is it unnecessarily, but now we know it can be dangerous. Eating animals is barbaric and humans should not do it anymore. If people only knew the disgusting conditions that these animals are killed in and then you eat them. The cows are full of hormones to produce more milk and then you eat them and all of the hormones that were injected to them.
The reason that there is a link here is because of fat levels. Higher saturated fat consumption seems to raise levels of insulin, a hormone that promotes the development of breast cancer.
This should be a call to all women to stop or cut down the amount of red meat that they eat. There are many safer and healthier alternatives to get protein. There are beans and soy products that are much better and healthier than red meat.
I have not eaten red meat for years and I have never felt better. I was worried about how I was going to get iron and protein but have found many better alternatives that are also safer. I strongly suggest everyone stops eating red meat. But, it is a free country and people will always eat red meat.

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