Red Meat and Breast Cancer
Oh, I like these types of news releases. I'm Jeff Keane; if you want to know about this current information, I'll tell you right after this short commercial.So what's this review that has me all excited? Well, it's a study by the National Institutes of Health and the American Association of Retired Persons. The report's conclusion showed no link between a high intake of meat and increased risk of breast cancer. In the words of the researchers led by Geoffrey C. Kabat at the Albert Einstein College in New York and reported in the International Journal of Cancer - "results of this large prospective cohort of post-menopausal women do not support the hypothesis that a high intake of meat, red meat, processed meat, meat cooked at high temperatures, or meat mutagens is associated with increased risk of breast cancer." Now this wasn't a small little sample of women, the study tracked 120,755 post menopausal women who answered questions about their food choices and how they cooked that food. There were 3,818 cases of invasive breast cancer reported in the group, but no evidence of a connection to red meat consumption. Considering the bad press meat, and especially beef, gets from so many fronts these findings are very good news to beef producers like me. Maybe red meat shouldn't be that scary little item in the bottom corner of the sacred food pyramid. Possibly, beef needs to take its rightful place alongside the other food groups. I'm Jeff Keane.
