In a study published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Daniel Wang, an assistant professor of medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and his team report that people who eat more processed red meat had a 14% higher risk of developing dementia over more than four decades that those who consumed minimal amounts.

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People who eat more processed red meat have a greater risk of developing cognitive decline and dementia than those who eat very little red meat, a new study has found.