Across two studies of 37,698 men and 83,644 women followed 22 to 28 years, with 23,926 deaths, a daily three-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat was tied to 13% higher mortality and processed meat to 20%. Swapping in poultry, nuts or legumes lowered risk up to 19%.
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Food
Red Meat Increases Risk of Dying
Harvard researchers followed 121,342 people for up to 28 years and found each daily serving of red meat raised the risk of dying by 12%, and each serving of processed meat by 20%. An accompanying editorial argued cutting back would also lower costs and environmental impact.
Disease
Overweight, obesity linked to higher death risk
Following 6,603 Taiwanese adults aged 20 to 65 for 24 years, researchers found a BMI of 25 to 26.9 carried a 28 percent higher risk of death and a BMI of 27 or above a 46 percent higher risk, with the steepest increases in deaths from diabetes.
Nutrition
Binge drinking lethal for men with hypertension
Following 6,100 Korean residents aged 55 and older for nearly 21 years, researchers found men with Grade 3 hypertension who also binge drank were 12 times as likely to die of heart attack or stroke as non-drinkers with normal blood pressure.
Lifestyle
Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Early Death
A pooled analysis of the largest studies found even light or moderate activity such as walking or cycling lowers the risk of early death, by about 19 percent at the recommended 30 minutes five days a week and 24 percent at seven hours a week.
Obesity
Growing Waistline Increases Mortality - at Any Weight
In a large study in the August 2010 Archives of Internal Medicine, a larger waist was linked to higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer at every level of body mass index, in men and women alike, including people who are not overweight.
Obesity
Larger waistline linked with greater risk of premature death
Eric Jacobs and colleagues followed 48,500 men and 56,343 women aged 50 and over for six years. Waists above 47 inches in men and 42 inches in women carried roughly twice the risk of death, and the raised risk showed up in every body mass index category.
Lifestyle
Watching too much TV raises death risk
American Cancer Society epidemiologist Alpa Patel found men and women who sat longer in leisure time faced higher death risk regardless of exercise. An Australian study of 8,800 adults tied each extra daily hour of TV to 11% higher all-cause and 18% higher cardiovascular mortality.
Lifestyle
Sitting Too Long Boosts Death Risk
American Cancer Society researchers followed more than 123,000 adults for 14 years and found men who spent six or more leisure hours a day sitting were 25 percent more likely to die, and women 34 percent, than those sitting under three hours. The authors stress this is not a trial.
Lifestyle
Long-Term Study Links Chronic Insomnia to Increased Risk of Death
Mercola cites research presented at SLEEP 2010 in which 2,242 people were surveyed over up to 19 years. Chronic insomnia carried roughly three times the adjusted all-cause death risk, with the highest figures for early-awakening and sleep-maintenance insomnia.
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