Red meat study bites off more than it can chew

The largest review of all evidence to date on whether curbing red and processed meat consumption equals better health and longer life last week turned the tables on recent dietary guidance.

Whether the findings were savoury or unpalatable depends on which side of the plant-based fence you sit, because as critics have pointed out, it’s more about interpretation than convincing new data.

Drawing on four separate meta-analyses covering more than six million participants and 100 studies, the authors from North America and two Cochrane centres