Posted by Alisa Bowman at 11:44:07 AM on March 16, 2012
When it comes to healthy eating, many people follow the sage advice of, ?everything in moderation.? I generally follow this advice myself.
Yet, a pair of new studies from Harvard School of Public Health show that moderate consumption of red meat and soft drinks can still significantly raise your risk of death, especially from heart disease.
When researchers studied the nutritional habits and health outcomes of thousands of men and women over more than twenty years, they learned that:
- One daily 3 ounce serving of red meat raised risk of death by 13 percent
- One daily serving of processed red meat (such as a hot dog or 2 slices of bacon) raised risk of death by 20 percent
- One 12-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage (such as most soft drinks) raised risk of heart disease by 20 percent. Soft drinks also raised triglycerides, a harmful type of fat in the blood.
Those are scary stats. What to do? Here are some tips.
Switch to diet soft drinks. Ideally, you wouldn?t drink soft drinks at all. But there?s a difference between what?s ideal and what?s realistic. If you can?t give them up, at least switch to diet. Artificially sweetened drinks were not linked to an increased risk of heart disease in this study. One better than diet drinks, however, is water. Flavor it with lemon, lime or a splash of juice. Or consider herbal tea.
Cut back to a half serving of red meat a day. That?s roughly the size of half a deck of cards. That's a very small serving. Use it as an accent for a meal that is mostly composed of vegetables, whole grains or legumes.
Eat another source of protein instead. People who ate fish, chicken, nuts, legumes, or lowfat dairy instead of red meat dropped their risk of death considerably. Nuts had the strongest effect, dropping risk of death by 19 percent.
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Source: http://blogs.mcall.com/health/2012/03/want-to-live-longer-eat-less-red-meat.html
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