Study: Halving Meat Consumption Would Cut Heart Disease, Cancer Rates.

The Daily Telegraph (UK)  (9/11, Adams) reports, "Almost halving our consumption of red and processed meat would lead to thousands fewer cases of heart disease, diabetes and cancer in Britain every year, claim Cambridge University researchers" in a study, published in the journal BMJ Open. The researchers "calculated that if men cut their daily intake from an average of 91g to 53g -- the equivalent of a large burger to a small one -- that would result in a 12 per cent drop in bowel cancer cases. It would also result in 12 per cent fewer Type 2 diabetes cases in men, and a 10 per cent drop in coronary heart disease."