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# Fatty red meat, lean red meat and obesity
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/fatty_red_meat_lean_red_meat_and_obesity_0528140807/
- Published: 2014-05-28T21:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:24:20.000Z
- Description: Zhihong Wang and colleagues analyzed 16,822 Chinese adults in the China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1993 to 2011 and linked total and fatty red meat intake, but not lean red meat, to obesity risk in men. They observed no such association in women.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Wednesday May 28, 2014 (FOODCONSUMER.ORG) -- A study published in the April 2014, The FASEB Journal suggests that not all red meats are the same when it comes to their effects on the risk of developing obesity in men and women.

The study led by Zhihong Wang at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC United States and colleagues shows that intake of total red meat and fatty red meat, but not lean red meat was associated with the risk of obesity in Chinese men.

But no association between eating red meat and risk of obesity was observed in Chinese women.

Researchers analyzed data from 16,822 Chinese adults participating in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1993 through 2011 and found the associations between red meat consumption and risk of obesity in Chinese men and women.

The associations may not be applicable to populations of other ethnicities in other countries due to the difference in lifestyle and dietary habits. (David Liu, PHD)

Reference

Zhihong Wang, Fengying Zhai, Bing Zhang and Barry Popkin, Fatty and lean red meat consumption: different effects on Chinese abdominal obesity, The FASEB Journal, April 2014, vol. 28 no. 1 Supplement 628.1