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Is Chicken Healthier Than Red Meat?

By Karen Davis

Whenever I hear a health care professional telling people with type 2 diabetes or who are worried about getting cancer from “red meat” or “processed meats” to eat more chicken, I cringe.

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Is Red Meat the New Tobacco?

By Martha Rosenberg

Ever since James Garner, the face of the “Real Food for Real People” beef campaign, suffered a heart attack in 1988, there has been nothing but bad publicity about red meat.

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Critics: Study Linking Red Meat To Earlier Death Is Bad Science

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

Drop that T-bone! Or should you? Unpacking a large study of the risk of dying from routinely eating red meat. 

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