Red and Processed Meat May Increase Cancer Risk

In a 2007 journal article from PLos Medicine, researchers correlated red and processed meat to cancer. The authors suggested that possibly one in ten colorectal and one in ten lung cancers could be avoided with the decreased consumption of red meat.

Read article here:

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040325

As a former smoker and person who has avoided red meat for a long time, I hope this means I will avoid getting lung cancer. Perhaps this is good news for vegetarian smokers or vegetarian former smokers.