Are you planning to mark your 40th birthday before cutting out
red meat from your diet? Then this might interest you. Recent
research findings have shown that the chances of hitting that
age is slimmer for people who indulge in processed and
unprocessed meat. To reduce the risk of dying from cancer or
heart disease, they say, diets rich in beef, hotdogs, sausage,
steaks and bacon have to take the back seat. The advice might
sound like bad news, but the Harvard University-based scientists
are pointing to a new study which analysed the diets of more
than 120,000 men and women in the department of nutrition,
Harvard School of Public Health, United States, US. The research
was on for 20 years. At the start of the study, the men were in
their early 50s and the women in their mid-40s. Every four
years, the participants were questioned on their eating habits
and other indices like smoking, drinking, exercise and body
weight. After 20 years, it was discovered that the participants
who indulged most in red meat were m