The NHS website advises readers to cut their red meat consumption down to 70g or less per day. Let’s say you find that older people tend to eat a lot of red meat. Does that mean that eating red meat helps you live longer? After a few pandemic years in which the epidemiology of infectious diseases – not diets – took centre stage, the debate over red meat has returned. Though at least such fads give us something both camps in the Red Meat Wars can agree on.
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