自从世界卫生组织下属的国际癌症研究机构近日抛出“吃肉致癌说”以来,学界人士质疑不断,不少普通老百姓则纠结到底要不要吃肉。诺丁汉大学的结肠直肠外科顾问约翰·阿伯克龙比表示,食用红肉实际上对增加致癌风险的影响很小,研究中所描述的是潜在危害,是一个“相对”的风险增加,而不是“绝对”的风险。多位英国专家指 Since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) affiliated with the World Health Organization has recently thrown out the theory of “eating meat and causing cancer”, many academicians have questioned constantly and many ordinary people have no choice but to eat meat. John Abercrombie, a consultant for colorectal surgery at the University of Nottingham, said eating red meat actually has little effect on increasing the risk of cancer, and the study described potential hazards as a “relative” risk increase, Rather than the “absolute” risk. Many British experts mean