Red meat triggers toxic immune reaction which causes cancer, scientists find

[n2doc]

Red meat has been linked to cancer for decades, with research suggesting that eating large amounts of pork, beef or lamb raises the risk of deadly tumors.

But for the first time scientists think they know what is causing the effect. The body, it seems, views red meat as a foreign invader and sparks a toxic immune response.

Researchers have always been puzzled about how other mammals could eat a diet high in red meat without any adverse health consequences.

Now they have discovered that pork, beef and lamb contains a sugar which is naturally produced by other carnivores but not humans.

It means that when humans eat red meat, the body triggers an immune response to the foreign sugar, producing antibodies which spark inflammation, and eventually cancer.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11316316/Red-meat-triggers-toxic-immune-reaction-which-causes-cancer-scientists-find.html

[hadrons]

1. I stopped eating meat 20 years ago....

never felt or looked better; however, I'm not self-righteous about it because I know there are people who have digestive systems that make it difficult for them to forgo meat (I have terrible trouble digesting raw foods like nuts and carrots.) I do think eating a lot of meat does age the body.

[lunasun]

3. Soak raw nuts in water for a digestive aid. Really -do a search on it!

[nichomachus]

2. Based on a mouse study

So, I will not be giving my mice red meat.

Until there is more evidence, this is just another "Oh, my god, X is going to kill you."

[enlightenment]

6. Yes.

Filing this with the infamous "lettuce will give you cancer" study of the 1970s (80s?)

I suspect that if you consume as much of anything as they give to mice in these studies, that whatever it is, it will make you sick.

I will also wait for more information.

[progressoid]

4. What about bison? Is that red meat?

[Lochloosa]

5. It's the "Other" red meat...

[upaloopa]

7. This can't be we have two pointed teeth

I'm vegetarian and that is my most favorite pro meat idea.

[tridim]

8. Now big pharma has an excuse to develop a "Neu5Gc" pill

and charge whatever they want for it. Woohoo!!!!

Always be skeptical of cancer research.