{"id":213844,"date":"2025-05-12T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/gastrointestinal-cancer-can-eating-chicken-shorten-lifespan"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:26:54","slug":"gastrointestinal-cancer-can-eating-chicken-shorten-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/gastrointestinal-cancer-can-eating-chicken-shorten-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"Gastrointestinal cancer: Can eating chicken shorten lifespan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gastrointestinal-cancer-can-eating-chicken-shorten-lifespan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study conducted in southern Italy presented some surprising findings that linked the regular consumption of poultry to potential increases in gastrointestinal cancers and all-cause mortality. This has caused one question to arise \u2014 is eating chicken really as healthy as we think it is?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The study\u2019s findings indicated that exceeding the weekly recommended amounts \u2014 that is, eating more than 300 grams (g) of poultry, such as chicken and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/285736\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">turkey<\/a>, per week \u2014 resulted in a 27% higher risk of all-cause mortality compared to eating moderate amounts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the research suggested that higher poultry intake was linked to a 2.3% increase in the risk of gastrointestinal cancers, with a higher observed risk among men at 2.6%. The findings were published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-6643\/17\/8\/1370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">Nutrients<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study conducted in southern Italy presented some surprising findings that linked the regular consumption of poultry to potential increases in gastrointestinal cancers and all-cause mortality. This has caused one question to arise \u2014 is eating chicken really as healthy as we think it is? The study\u2019s findings indicated that exceeding the weekly recommended [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213844","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}