How researchers came to a controversial conclusion about the health effects of meat.
On a range of health outcomes â from deaths due to cancer and cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, cancer incidence, stroke, all-cause mortality, and heart attack â the researchers generally found either no benefit on cutting back on meat or one so small, and based on such weak evidence, as to be unreliable. (You can read the papers here, here, here, and here.) For the fifth review, the researchers looked at peopleâs feelings about meat consumption, again focusing only on health concerns (read: not moral, ethical, or environmental reasons for avoiding meat). And they found, essentially, that many people are attached to meat, and feel eating it influences their quality of life.







