Red Meat & Breast Cancer Risk

HealthDay reported today that the risk of breast cancer may be related to eating red meat. The study found that "women who had one-and-a-half servings of red meat a day had nearly double the risk for hormone receptor-positive cancer compared with women who ate less than three servings of red meat per week.

The researchers speculated that the increased risk may be linked to carcinogens found in cooked or processed red meat, hormone treatments used to spur growth in cattle and the type of iron found in red meat."

The American Cancer Society does not recommend eating any red meat at all. The consumption of red meat is also linked to other types of cancer.

Yet another reason to go veg or semi-veg!