date:Jan 14, 2013
A study in the journal Stroke suggests that eating red meats such as beef and pork can increase risk of stroke in men with a normal body mass index (BMI).
J. Kaluza from Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW in Warsaw, Poland andcolleagues conducted the case-control study and found men with a normal BMI in thehighest qintile of heme iron intake were 40 percent more likely to suffer totalstroke and 38 percent more likely to experience cerebral infarction, compared withthose in the lowest quint