Recent high-quality reviews of red meat and health outcomes, including Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer:
Processed meat intake and chronic disease morbidity and mortality: An overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Using GRADE systematic review methodology)
PLoS One 2019
Conclusion: “Overall, the quality assessments of primary studies of the reviews are generally lacking; the scientific quality of the systematic reviews reporting positive associations between processed meat intake and risk of various cancers, T2D and CVD is moderate, and the results from case-control studies suggest more often a positive association than the results from cohort studies. The overall certainty in the evidence was very low across all individual outcomes, due to serious risk of bias and imprecision.”
When Red Meat Studies Suggesting It's Bad For You Are Subjected To Review, Do They Hold Up?
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