Heart Health

Meat lovers beware. Recent studies show negative affects of regular meat
consumption and heart disease. There has long been debate about the long
term affects of meat consumption, but for many people not eating meat is
quite the difficult feat regardless of it's side effects. Physicians
recommend that people only eat 1 hamburger a week or rather a few pieces of
meat/steak every couple of days.

According to the New York Times, "The study found that, other things being
equal, the men and women who consumed the most red and processed meat were
likely to die sooner, especially from one of our two leading killers, heart
disease and cancer, than people who consumed much smaller amounts of these
foods. But the number of excess deaths that could be attributed to high meat
consumption is quite large given the size of the American population."

It seems as though we can now add meat-lovers to the high risk candidates
that are recommended to have yearly heart scans to check up on their heart
and artery health.

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