Eating beef may raise a woman’s risk of developing uterine fibroids, a leading cause of hysterectomies, according to Italian researchers. Fibroids, a type of benign tumor that grows in a woman’s uterus, can cause abdominal pain, bleeding, infertility and increase the risk of miscarriage. The researchers speculated that meat consumption might raise estrogen levels in women, another risk factor in developing fibroids.
According to Kristin Kjerulff, of the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, fibroids can take 10 to 20 years to develop. We now understand why all the so-called health experts, who advocate a high cow diet, need to be whipped 20 times with an organic carrot.
