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Less Meat More Health

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008, 11:26 amadmin

time after time after time after time…we see that eating less meat means an improvement in health and a lessening of the risk of disease. This time those scientists are focusing on the Mediterranean diet to show this.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Adopting just a couple of elements of the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of cancer by 12%, say scientists.

The diet, reports the British Journal of Cancer, also includes higher amounts of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and less red meat.

They noticed that people living there generally ate more vegetables and fish, less red meat, cooked in olive oil and drank moderate amounts of alcohol.

But just two changes - eating less red meat, and more peas, beans and lentils, cut the risk of cancer by 12%.