Red Meat

NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests people who eat red meat every day are more likely than others to die of heart disease and cancer.

The National Cancer Institute study -- which looked at data from 545,653 men and women ages 50 to 71 -- found that those who ate the equivalent of a hamburger each day were 30 percent more likely to die during the 10 years of the study than those who ate fish or poultry, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported Monday.

The findings are published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

"This is a slam-dunk to say that, 'Yes, indeed, if people want to be healthy and live longer, consume less red and processed meat," Barry M. Popkin -- a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina who wrote an editorial published alongside the study -- told the newspaper.

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