Are you looking forward to the end of the fasting season so that you may enjoy your kurt and kitfo or can’t you wait until few days to have your out-door barbeque? Well you might need to consider your plan of enjoying your kurt and barbeque. There is new study or sort of spoiler that suggest that eating any form and amount of red meat may significantly accelerate the risk of death. The Harvard University study examined the health and dietary information of about 120, 000 adults for 28 years. Analysis of the 20% of the people who died in the course of the study showed that unprocessed meat increase the risk of death by 13% and processed meat by 20%. "Any red meat you eat contributes to the risk," said An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study, published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

On the other hand, replacing one serving of red meat with one serving of a healthy protein source was associated with a lower mortality risk: 19 percent lower when the meat was replaced with nuts; 14 percent for poultry; 14 percent for whole grains; 10 percent for legumes; 10 percent for low-fat dairy products; and 7 percent for fish. Previous studies had associated red meat consumption with diabetes, heart disease and cancer, all of which can be fatal. Scientists aren't sure exactly what makes red meat so dangerous, but the suspects include the iron and saturated fat in beef, pork and lamb, the nitrates used to preserve them, and the chemicals created by high-temperature cooking.

The researchers hypothesized that eating red meat would also be linked to an overall risk of death from any cause. And the results suggest they were right: Among the 37,698 men and 83,644 women, who were tracked, as meat consumption increased, so did mortality risk. The bottom line was that there was no amount of red meat that's good for you.

"If you want to eat red meat, eat the unprocessed products, and reduce it to two or three servings a week," Pan said. "That would have a huge impact on public health."

This study demolishes previous findings, conception and believes about red meat and its health risk. For example, one earlier study showed that eating red meat in moderation is an important part of a healthy balanced diet…as long intakes are within targets levels there is no reason to eat less red meat if you enjoy it. On the contrary, this current study revealed that regular consumption of both processed and unprocessed meet increase the risk of early death. Will you consider substantially cut back your consumption of red meat?