WCRF International’s 5th Cancer Prevention Recommendation: Animal-Based Foods
The World Cancer Research Fund International’s fifth recommendation to reduce the risk of cancer is to limit the consumption of red meat and not to eat processed meats. Red meats include beef, pork, and lamb. Processed meats include bacon, ham, hot-dogs, frankfurters, and other sausages.
The WCRF International recommends against the heavy consumption red and processed meats because they are convincingly linked to bowel cancer. This doesn’t mean that if you eat red and processed meat you will get bowel cancer, but the more you eat the more likely you are to get bowel cancer.
The WCRF International recommended a public health goal of limiting the consumption of red meat to no more than 300 grams or 11 ounces a week, and little to none of that should be from processed meats.
The personal recommendation is people should consume no more than 500 grams or 18 ounces a week, as demonstrated in the video. That would amount to around 70 grams of meat everyday. Realistically that would mean only one of the daily meals should contain meat.
Tags: anti-cancer, cancer awareness
