Often, the diet-cancer link gets oversimplified as a problem with red meat. And if you enjoy a burger for lunch or your weekly steak dinner, that association must be frustrating. In fact, the connection is much more specific than that, and there are specific steps you can take to cut your cancer risk and improve your health overall.
As Romano explains, it's "not what we eat, it's what we do to the food before we eat it." Red meat takes a lot of the blame, because there are so many dangerous things that happen to the meat before it hits your plate. Cows that are overfed with chemicals and antibiotics yield unhealthy beef, and when manufacturers add preservatives, things get even worse.
