THE publisher of a controversial study alleging deaths attributable to red meat-intake had increased 36-fold in two years is facing renewed calls to reconsider the methods it used.
World Cancer Research Fund International has joined a group of scientists in raising concerns about a 2019 Global Burden of Disease study in The Lancet journal. The study reported that 896,000 deaths were caused by a diet high in red meat, a dramatic change from only 25,000 deaths in 2017.
The GBD reports are a globally recognised scientific reference for health and disease risk and are often in the formation…
