Beef has long been demonised as a food that contributes to several modern chronic diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis and colon cancer.
By Ben Pratt, Tutor Manager at Premier Training International | 25th June 2014
The consumption of red meat has increased in general throughout the Western world, but an association of trends is not a reason to pin the blame on beef for rising disease rates. In the US beef consumption increased 46% to 36kgs per person per year between 1909 and 2000. This increase occurred during a time when many of the modern chronic diseases such as heart disease also increased.
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