MNT‘s Senior News Editor, Tim Newman, in the coming weeks.Learn more here.One of the reasons a person might decide to follow a plant-based diet is the association that eating meat, especially red meat, has with cancer.
This week, we reported on a new study that offers a new insight into what the mechanism linking red meat and cancer might be.
The authors of the study discovered a significant correlation between high consumption of a carbohydrate from red meat and increased development of certain antibodies that heighten the risk of cancer.
Foods could be ranked according to the level of the carbohydrate — Neu5Gc — they contain, allowing a person to assess not only how much of it they consume in their diet but also their relative risk of.