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Heart Health
For Consumers
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Surprising Facts about Lean Beef
This two-sided fact sheet addresses and busts some very common myths about beef.
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Building a Heart Healthy Diet with Lean Beef
This fact sheet features research supporting lean beef’s role in a heart healthy diet. A nutrient rich steak recipe is also included along with nutrition snapshots of popular lean cuts.
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Beef Up Your Fruits and Veggies!
This fact sheet shows how pairing produce with a favorite food like beef can entice people to eat more fruits and vegetables and meet MyPyramid recommendations. It includes taste-appealing tips and recipes to team up fruits, vegetables and beef.
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Study Shows Beef can be Part of Heart-Healthy Diet
This fact sheet summarizes research indicating that lean red meat can be part of a cholesterol-lowering diet. It also compares the fat content of a lean beef cut to boneless, skinless chicken breast. |
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For Health Professionals |
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Eating Lean Beef Daily Can Help Lower Cholesterol
As Part of a Heart-Healthy Diet
This two-sided fact sheet contains nutrition tips for heart health including details from the study Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet (BOLD)
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Lean Beef and Heart Health
This fact sheet describes the fatty acid profile and nutrients in beef and summarizes research indicating that lean beef can be a healthful part of a diet to manage cardiovascular disease. |
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Beef Lipids in Perspective
This fact sheet provides an overview of beef lipids including the classes of dietary fats, the profile of beef fats compared to other common foods and dietary recommendations regarding fat intake and the role of beef. |
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Stearic Acid—A Unique Saturated Fat
This fact sheet summarizes research on the effects of stearic acid on blood cholesterol levels and other cardiovascular disease factors. It also includes a comparison of the fat and stearic acid content of selected foods, including beef. |
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Trans Fatty Acids
This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of trans fatty acids, beef's fatty acid profile and the different types of trans fatty acids. |
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Cancer
For Consumers |
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Beef Up Your Fruits and Veggies
This fact sheet shows how pairing produce with a favorite food like beef can entice people to eat more fruits and vegetables and meet MyPyramid recommendations. It includes taste-appealing tips and recipes to team up fruits, vegetables and beef. |
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Get Lean with Protein
This fact sheet translates nutrition research that reinforces protein's role in weight management. |
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Don't Miss Out on the Benefits of Naturally
Nutrient-Rich Lean Beef
This fact sheet highlights beef's key nutrient benefits and reviews certain categories of people who do not meet needs for nutrients supplied by the Meat & Beans group when consumption is inadequate. |
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Safe and Healthy Meat Grilling Tips
This handout provides tips for reducing the presence of heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons when grilling meat. |
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For Health Professionals |
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Thorough and Transparent Scientific Evaluation is the Foundation of the Beef Nutrition Research Program
This statement is NCBA's response to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)/American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) comments regarding the report, Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption and Cancer: A Technical Summary of the Epidemiologic Evidence (below). |
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Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption and Cancer : A Technical Summary of the Epidemiologic Evidence
This comprehensive report summarizes currently-available epidemiologic studies of red meat and processed meat consumption and cancer. It also discusses the fundamental basis of the science of epidemiology, including study designs, research methodology, data evaluation, and scientific interpretation. |
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The Assessment of Red Meat and Cancer Risk: A Summary of Findings from an Independent Research Assessment
This fact sheet features a brief summary of findings from the comprehensive report, Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption and Cancer: A Technical Summary of the Epidemiologic Evidence. |
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Quantitative Assessment of Red Meat or Processed Meat
Consumption and Kidney Cancer
This research abstract summarizes the results of a meta-analysis, which are not supportive of an independent relationship between red or processed meat intake and kidney cancer. |
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Epidemiology 101
This fact sheet summarizes types of epidemiological studies and provides criteria for interpreting epidemiological study results. |