Large amounts of red meat have always been strongly forbidden for people who have a risk of heart disease. But doctors never said how much meat is considered to be too much.
Recent researches show that you don’t have to cut out red meat from your diet. Having red meat once a day is quite okay, and be sure this reduces risk of suffering from a heart disease. If you replace red meat with other products rich for proteins (nuts, low aft kinds of meat), this will reduce risk of having heart disease even faster.
Women who eat red meat twice a day have 30% increased risk of having a heart disease comparing to women who eat red meat 3-4 times a week. That’s a “pretty dramatic increase,” says the lead researcher, Dr. Adam Bernstein. Adam says he expects results among men to be the same.
The director of women and heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in NY says: “This (research) gives you an understanding of what moderation means. It gives you something to grab on to”.
About 85,000 of women took part in the experiment. The results proved that replacing red meat with healthier sources of protein really helps to reduce the risk of a heart disease. Plus, regular exercising in combination with a diet will lead to stronger and faster results.
If you replace daily serving of red meat with nuts (30%), poultry (19%), low fat dairy (13%), you will reduce risk of heart disease.
“We know that red meat is not as good as other protein sources,” says Karen Congro, a registered dietitian at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in New York City.
“Now we actually have the numbers to put next to them.”
It doesn’t mean red meat is awful, it just means that those who eat it often should reduce the amount of this product in their diet.