Does Meat Kill More Americans Than Cigarettes Do?

The West's three biggest killers -- heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- are linked to excessive animal product consumption.

It may be awhile before eating a chicken wing is seen, as it should be, as the heath equivalent of smoking a cigarette -- the meat industry is still more powerful than tobacco has ever been, and most of the medical establishment is not yet as nutrition-focused as progressive scientists and doctors like T. Colin Campbell and Dean Ornish.

But the best research clearly points in that direction, and more and more, I'm seeing cause for optimism. Full Story »

Posted by Tanya J. Maurer
Tags Help
Subjects: Living, Health, Community
Topics: Food
Stats Help
# Diggs: 1 (as of 2012-03-15)
# Tweets: 24 (as of 2012-03-15)
Editorial Help
Posted by: Posted by Tanya J. Maurer - Mar 15, 2012 - 4:38 PM PDT
Content Type: Article
Edit Lock: This story can be edited
Edited by: Tanya J. Maurer - Mar 15, 2012 - 4:43 PM PDT

Reviews

Show All | Notes | Comments | Quotes | Links
No reviews yet. Please review this story!

Comments on this story Help (BETA)

NT Rating | My Rating

Ratings

No Rating

not enough reviews
from 0 reviews (confidence not calculated)
Popularity
1.2
# Reviews
1.0
# Views
2.0
# Likes
1.0
# Emails
1.0
More
How our ratings work »

Topics

(See these related stories.)

Links Help

No links yet. Please review this story to add some!