Life’s a gas
Hola Going veggie can help slow global warming. A new report in the Lancet shows how you can reduce greenhouse gases by cutting down the amount of meat you eat. The...
Meat
Iron fist
Hola The type of iron found in red meat may cause changes that lead to cancers of the colon, breast and prostate, heart disease and other diseases. Writing in the journal...
More red alerts…
Hola A large US study looking at the diet and health of around half a million men and women revealed that those who ate the most red meat had a 20-60...
Get smart – lose the flab!
Hola A new study published in Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology suggests that overweight people are not as smart as their slimmer counterparts. Researchers from Toulouse...
Prostate cancer cholesterol link
Hola Men with high cholesterol levels are more likely to get prostate cancer according to new research published in the Annals of Oncology. Dr Francesca Bravi, lead researcher of this study,...
BSE may be worse than thought
Hola People infected with vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob), the human form of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), may carry the disease for up to 50 years before symptoms develop a study published in...
Processing the risk of stomach cancer
Hola New research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden confirms that processed meat products such as bacon, sausages and smoked ham, can increase the risk of stomach cancer. The review, published...
Red alert for breast cancer
Hola Previous work has shown that red meat increases the risk of stomach and pancreatic cancer. Now red meat has been linked to breast cancer. US researchers look at the diets...
Meat-cancer link explained
Hola Researchers have revealed a mechanism that may explain how red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. Last year research showed that the chance of developing bowel cancer is a...
