Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide

Has eating meat become unfairly demonised as bad for your health? That鈥檚 the question a global, multidisciplinary team of researchers has been studying and the results are in - eating meat still offers important benefits for overall human health and life expectancy.
Study author, University of 亚洲色吧 researcher in biomedicine, Dr Wenpeng You says humans have evolved and thrived over millions of years because of their significant consumption of meat.
鈥淲e wanted to look more closely at research that has thrown a negative spotlight on meat consumption in the human diet,鈥 Dr You says.听
鈥淟ooking only at correlations of meat consumption with people鈥檚 health or life expectancy within a particular group, and or, a particular region or country, can lead to complex and misleading conclusions.听
鈥淥ur team broadly analysed the correlations between meat eating and life expectancy, and child mortality, at global and regional levels, minimising the study bias, and making our conclusion more representative of the general health effects of meat eating.鈥 听
Published in the today, the study examined the overall health effects of total meat consumption in 170+ countries around the world.听
The researchers found that the consumption of energy from carbohydrate crops (grains and tubers) does not lead to greater life expectancy, and that total meat consumption correlates to greater life expe