Processed meat Picture: reuters.com

Where do you take your children on the weekends? Roam the malls and then treat them at fast food restaurants? If that’s what you have always done then you’re purposely shortening your children life. Most of the fast food restaurants use processed meats which were associated with higher risk of causing cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Part of the news from reuters.com;
People who eat the most red meat and the most processed meat have the highest overall risk of death from all causes, including heart disease and cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

“Red and processed meat intakes were associated with modest increases in total mortality, cancer mortality, and cardiovascular disease mortality,” Sinha and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

They divided the volunteers into five groups, called quintiles. Between 1995 and 2005, 47,976 men and 23,276 women died.

The quintile who ate the most red meat had a higher risk for overall death, death from heart disease and cancer than the men and women who ate the least red meat.

The researchers said thousands of deaths could be prevented if people simply ate less meat.
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Many studies have shown that people who eat less meat are healthier in many ways, and Sinha’s team noted that meat contains several cancer-causing chemicals, as well as the unhealthiest forms of fat.

Just dump these kind of food from your outing menu. Consume more vegetables and grains, do some exercise weekly and stay healthy.