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Article: Colon Cancer Risk, Red Meat Linked; Disease 2 1/2 Times More Likely With Daily Consumption, Study Finds
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- The Washington Post
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- December 13, 1990
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Women who eat red meat every day are 2 1/2 times more likely to
develop colon cancer than are women who eat it less than once a
month, according to a six-year study of more than 88,000 nurses.
The study, published in today's issue of the New England Journal
of Medicine, provides persuasive new evidence that eating animal
fat, which is thought to be the chief culprit in red meat, increases
the risk of cancer of the colon, or large intestine, the second most
common fatal cancer in the United States.
That link had been suggested by previous epidemiological
research, but the new study goes further to show a clear
dose-response relationship. It also pinpoints a link to the fat in
red meat but ...