How unhealthy is red meat? And how beneficial is it to eat vegetables? A new rating system could help you cut through the health guidelines
- Written by Aleksandr Aravkin, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
The new rating system shows that eating the right amount of vegetables can lower your risk of heart disease by nearly 20%.Westend61/Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
We developed a new method for assessing health risks that our research suggests should make it a lot easier for people to...



