Processed meat: The real villain?

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 233-241

  Rohrmann, Sabine ^a   Linseisen, Jakob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; CVD; meat; Mortality; Red meat

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROCESSED MEAT; RED MEAT; STOMACH CANCER; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; MEAT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN INTAKE; RISK FACTOR;

PROTEIN INTAKE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; DIETARY PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEOPLASMS; RED MEAT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84982782557     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: 14752719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665115004255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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