Processed Meat, Not Red Meat Per Se, Linked to CHD, Diabetes

 

Lisa Nainggolan

 

May 18, 2010 (Boston, Massachusetts) — The first study to systematically separate out the effects of red unprocessed meat from processed-meat products has shown that eating the former is not associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease or diabetes [1].

But eating 50 g of processed meat per day–the equivalent of one typical hot dog in the US, or two slices of deli meat–was associated with a 42% higher risk of CHD and a 19% increased risk of diabetes, say Dr Renata Micha (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA) and colleagues in their paper published online May 17, 2010 in Circulation.

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