Could save over 45,000 lives each year if everyone decided not to eat meat more than two or three times a week, say health experts and the organization "Friends of the Earth '.
The widespread adoption of diets low in meat that 31,000 people would die prematurely stopped because of heart disease, another 9,000, and 5,000 more cancer, stroke, according to a recent analysis of the eating habits of the British who Dr Mike Rayner made, public health expert, and has been included in the report of 'Friends of the Earth'.
A considerable reduction in meat consumption also save 1,200 million pounds [about 1,370 million euros] to the NHS [National Health Service, or NHS in the UK] and help reduce climate change and deforestation in South America where tropical forests are felled to grow animal fodder and pasture for raising cattle are then exported to Europe, the report said.
Eating meat from an excessive way, especially industrially processed meat is harmful to health because ingestion may involve the consumption of more animal fat, saturated fat or salt intake recommended officially as 'Friends of the Earth'.
Meat Diet
The organization is not suggesting that you stop eating meat altogether but urged people not to eat meat more than two or three times a week, with a weekly intake of no more than 210 grams in total, equivalent to sausage half a day. The average intake of meat a week is located seven to ten servings of 70 grams each.
Saving lives
Adopt these habits would save 45,361 lives a year, according to a study by Rayner and colleagues within the research group of health promotion, belonging to the British Heart Foundation [British Heart Foundation], University of Oxford.
Researchers have estimated that meat go up to five times a week would prevent 32,352 deaths, while the other 2,509 people die annually in 2050 if they continue current levels of meat consumption. Each year 228,000 deaths occur because of three conditions in which food intake has a role: heart disease, strokes and cancers related to diet, for example, cancer of the colon.
"It is not necessary that we really do vegetarians to ensure for ourselves and for our planet, but we need to reduce meat consumption," said Craig Bennett, policy and campaigns director of Friends of the Earth '.
Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners [Council of the Royal College of Family Physicians], has been agreed that "should not stop eating meat, but you should eat less, especially industrially processed meat because of its content in salt and saturated fats, and eat more fruits and vegetables. "
Rachel Thompson, deputy director of the World Cancer Research Fund [World Wide Fund for Cancer Research], said: "These figures help to reinforce what we've been saying about red meat and industrial development, that is, there is convincing evidence that increase the risk of developing colon cancer, the third most widespread in the United Kingdom. The Fund recommends eating no more than 500 grams of red meat a week and avoid eating processed meats such as bacon, ham and sausages. "
Beef producers have criticized the report. "The vast majority of consumers are eating less red meat the amount recommended on average" - said Chris Lamb, of BPEX, an organization representing 20,000 pig producers in England. "It is too simplistic to say that changing a single element of a diet can have a spectacular result."
Jen Elford, of the Vegetarian Society [Vegetarian Society], added that "of course, less meat is better than meat, but we can not address the magnitude of environmental and health problems facing society if we do not give a massive and widespread animal protein. "
The widespread adoption of diets low in meat that 31,000 people would die prematurely stopped because of heart disease, another 9,000, and 5,000 more cancer, stroke, according to a recent analysis of the eating habits of the British who Dr Mike Rayner made, public health expert, and has been included in the report of 'Friends of the Earth'.
A considerable reduction in meat consumption also save 1,200 million pounds [about 1,370 million euros] to the NHS [National Health Service, or NHS in the UK] and help reduce climate change and deforestation in South America where tropical forests are felled to grow animal fodder and pasture for raising cattle are then exported to Europe, the report said.
Eating meat from an excessive way, especially industrially processed meat is harmful to health because ingestion may involve the consumption of more animal fat, saturated fat or salt intake recommended officially as 'Friends of the Earth'.
Meat Diet
The organization is not suggesting that you stop eating meat altogether but urged people not to eat meat more than two or three times a week, with a weekly intake of no more than 210 grams in total, equivalent to sausage half a day. The average intake of meat a week is located seven to ten servings of 70 grams each.
Saving lives
Adopt these habits would save 45,361 lives a year, according to a study by Rayner and colleagues within the research group of health promotion, belonging to the British Heart Foundation [British Heart Foundation], University of Oxford.
Researchers have estimated that meat go up to five times a week would prevent 32,352 deaths, while the other 2,509 people die annually in 2050 if they continue current levels of meat consumption. Each year 228,000 deaths occur because of three conditions in which food intake has a role: heart disease, strokes and cancers related to diet, for example, cancer of the colon.
"It is not necessary that we really do vegetarians to ensure for ourselves and for our planet, but we need to reduce meat consumption," said Craig Bennett, policy and campaigns director of Friends of the Earth '.
Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners [Council of the Royal College of Family Physicians], has been agreed that "should not stop eating meat, but you should eat less, especially industrially processed meat because of its content in salt and saturated fats, and eat more fruits and vegetables. "
Rachel Thompson, deputy director of the World Cancer Research Fund [World Wide Fund for Cancer Research], said: "These figures help to reinforce what we've been saying about red meat and industrial development, that is, there is convincing evidence that increase the risk of developing colon cancer, the third most widespread in the United Kingdom. The Fund recommends eating no more than 500 grams of red meat a week and avoid eating processed meats such as bacon, ham and sausages. "
Beef producers have criticized the report. "The vast majority of consumers are eating less red meat the amount recommended on average" - said Chris Lamb, of BPEX, an organization representing 20,000 pig producers in England. "It is too simplistic to say that changing a single element of a diet can have a spectacular result."
Jen Elford, of the Vegetarian Society [Vegetarian Society], added that "of course, less meat is better than meat, but we can not address the magnitude of environmental and health problems facing society if we do not give a massive and widespread animal protein. "
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