TO SAVE YOUR HEART, RECONSIDER THE BURGER

Here we go again. A new study says red meat is risky business. Researchers at Northwestern medical school and Cornell University sifted two decades of data from nearly 30,000 people and found that those who ate two servings of red meat a week were 3 to 7 percent likelier to develop heart disease compared with non-meat eaters. Red meat was also linked to 3 percent higher overall mortality risk. As for other animal protein, poultry has a similar risk factor for heart disease, but not overall mortality, and fish posed no associated risk.