“How could this increase your risk?”
In recent studies conducted by “The U.S. National Cancer Institute” Dr. Amanda Cross reports that there is a large increase with people who eat red meat and processed meat in Lung cancer and colorectal cancer.
The study consisted of over 500,000 study subjects ages 50-71 years. They found that eating meats and processed meats caused a significant raise the subjects risk between 16-20% for colorectal and lung cancers.
This find was published in the Public Library of Science Journal PLoS Medicine to read the complete study you can go to the report posted online.