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Red meat promotes bowel cancer, antioxidants cut the risk

Britain's new guidelines cap red meat at 500 grams a week, the first such advice since 1998, though Cancer Research UK's Ed Yong says no level is known to be safe. Rat studies point to the meat pigments haemoglobin and haemin as possible drivers of bowel tumours.

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