Do you want to decrease your risk of death from heart disease by 27-50% and your risk of death from cancer by 20-22% by doing one simple thing?  Read today's article for more information.

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Source:  March 23, 2009 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine

The long-awaited findings of a federal study about people's eating habits have finally been released. The study was conducted over a period of 10 years and included more than 545,000 men and women ranging in ages from 50-71 years old.  The result?  Diets that have a lot of red meat - including hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts, have an increased risk of early death due to heart disease or cancer.

The result of eating the equivalent of a quarter-pound hamburger daily gave men in the study a 22 percent higher risk of dying of cancer and a 27 percent higher risk of dying of heart disease, while women had a 20 percent higher risk of dying of cancer and a 50 percent higher risk of dying of heart disease than women who ate less.