{"id":212411,"date":"2025-04-25T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/eating-chicken-and-other-white-meat-can-shorten-your-lifespan-new-study-says"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:07:32","slug":"eating-chicken-and-other-white-meat-can-shorten-your-lifespan-new-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/eating-chicken-and-other-white-meat-can-shorten-your-lifespan-new-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Eating Chicken and Other White Meat Can Shorten Your Lifespan, New Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eating-chicken-and-other-white-meat-can-shorten-your-lifespan-new-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should you step away from the chicken wings?<\/p>\n<p>For years, the conventional wisdom has been to swap out red meat for white meats like chicken and poultry to help reduce health risks like increased cholesterol, cancer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realsimple.com\/food-recipes\/recipe-collections-favorites\/healthy-meals\/foods-that-cause-inflammation\" rel=\"nofollow\"> inflammation<\/a> \u2014not to mention get a more budget-friendly protein source. But a new study links eating chicken and other poultry with a significantly increased risk of dying from gastrointestinal cancer and all other causes.<\/p>\n<p>But before you put down the chicken\u2014or roll your eyes and get back to your chicken Caesar\u2014check out the details of the study, and what a dietitian says you should do if you\u2019re concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you step away from the chicken wings? For years, the conventional wisdom has been to swap out red meat for white meats like chicken and poultry to help reduce health risks like increased cholesterol, cancer, and inflammation \u2014not to mention get a more budget-friendly protein source. But a new study links eating chicken and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}