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Time -  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....

The scientists saw increased risk of all of these outcomes with any consumption of processed red meat, and it continued to increase the more meat a person consumed. The 14% increased dementia risk was the upper threshold.

It didn't take much meat to reach that upper limit. The 14% higher risk of dementia was linked to people who ate at least a quarter of a single 3-oz. serving of processed red meat daily—equivalent to two slices of bacon, one and a half slices of bologna, or a hot dog—compared to those who ate less than a tenth of a serving (less than a slice of bacon) a day.