GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Foodborne Illness, Red Meat, Old Age
17 Apr 2016
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What it concluded was that briish naion unit to defend itself. 38% of all men eligible were not physically capable. This was due to a century of industrializaion, which meant cheap processed food. When looked at young men in private school vs public school, age of 12, 5 inch diference in height, boys from successful families were taller, mainly due to diferences in nutriion. Ater world war, men who served in army were nutriionally beter and healthier. March 2012 harvard study found that they were higher mortality rates among men and women when they consume signiigant amounts of red meat. Paricular problem was processed meats (contains chemicals linked to chronic diseases such as heart disease and certain cancers) 76 million americans get food posining, around 5000 die each year=26 per hundred get food poisoning per year. Atlanta, georgia, centre for disease control inds that 200000 get food poisoning each year.
