Changing the narrative. People who eat red meat and cheese are likely to live longer, healthier lives in a new study out of McMaster University in Canada. Researchers in Canada questioned more than 218,000 about their food consumption across 52 countries to find that people who eat higher levels of dairy and red meat reduced their chances of early death by 25%, and of having a fatal heart attack by 22%.
Canada's NHS guidelines suggest that dairy should make up no more than 8% of an adult’s daily intake and red and processed meat per day should be cut down to a cooked weight of 70 grams or less, but the researchers found that people who eat three portions of dairy and 120 grams of unprocessed red meat per day had the best health. Read more of the details here.