Alert, Red Meat Trigger Stroke

People will usually be more appetite when accompanied by side dishes of meat. With yanag exorbitant price, making this beef entered the food category of class. However, beyond the pleasure you need to be aware. A recent study found that eating too much red meat increases the risk of stroke.


As quoted by page Reuters.com, Thursday (12 / 1), a number of researchers from Harvard University, United States, two large surveys to collect data about the health of tens of thousands of men were randomized and elderly women. Research that takes several years to find more than 20 percent, nearly 1,400 men and more than 2,600 women had a stroke.

"The main message of this paper is a type of protein or protein package actually have the risk of stroke. And we must consider the context of protein in food," said Dr. Frank Hu, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the study.

To see what the effect of dietary protein type on the risk of stroke, the researchers divided the volunteers according to the amount of red meat, poultry, fish, milk, and other common sources of protein they consume every day.

Men who ate more than two servings of red meat every day, 28 percent had an increased risk of stroke than men who ate about a third of a serving of red meat every day. While women who consumed nearly two servings of red meat a day, have a stroke risk 19 percent higher than women who consumed less than half a serving per day.

Researchers considered one serving of red meat is 4 to 6 ounces.

Previously, a study led by Susanna Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, also found eating red meat can increase the risk of stroke. So what's new from this study. Larsson said that the consumption of poultry meat can reduce the risk of stroke.

People who frequently eat chicken or turkey every day, about a half servings for women, and three-quarters of men, will reduce the risk of stroke 13 percent than those who ate more than one serving a day. According to researchers, one four-ounce serving is ideal.

"I do not think birds are considered a source of protein can reduce the risk of stroke. These new findings are surprising," said Larsson told Reuters Health in an email.

In addition to poultry, fish can prevent the onset of stroke risk. Well, so this disease does not attack, try to apply a healthy lifestyle is in your daily life.