eat less meat could save a lot of lives in the world

Hello everyone, today I am going to talk about news very interesting about the meat, this news appear in “The guardian” newspaper.
This news is about a research made for the British Heart Foundation health promotion research group at Oxford University, this shows that if we eat less meat could save 45,361 lives a year. This because the meat contains a lot of fat, saturated fat and salt. The meat is very bad for our health.
If the people will follow eats a lot of meat 20,509 people will die by 2050. These days there are 228,000 deaths a year for three causes: heart disease, strokes or diet related cancers, such as bowel cancer. According to this research if the people cutting meat consumption meat two or three time at week, 210 g. approximately, would reduce 31,000 peoples dying early from heart disease, 9,000 from cancer and 5,000 from strokes, this are dates very alarming.
The proposal of the expert is the people shouldn't stop eating meat but they should eat less meat, overcoat processed meat such as bacon, ham and salami and eat more fruit and vegetables.

Rachel Thompson, deputy head of science at the World Cancer Research Fund, said that the dates given for this research are agree with his our research, this said that eat a lot of meat, specially processed meat, increasing the risk of developing bowel cancer, the third most common cancer in the United Kingdom.

But the producers of meat criticised this research, they said that the result of the research of Oxford University are very simplistic, because changing one element of the diet can’t have that dramatic result furthermore the majority of people eat lees meat of the recommendation for the specialist.

I recommend you read this news. You can access to this article making click in the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/19/eat-less-meat-research.