Modification role of tea in the association of dietary meat intake and obesity risk
Sijia Cai, Chuhan Wu, Junhan Zhang, Xiaona Na, Yuefeng Tan, Ai Zhao · 2025
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Sijia Cai and five co-authors ask whether drinking tea softens the link between meat intake and obesity, in a study from 2025. No long-term evidence had tested that idea. Meat-heavy diets track with weight gain, and tea is often claimed to protect.
They drew on UK Biobank data for more than two hundred thousand people followed for over a decade. Higher intake of total, processed, and white meat raised obesity risk in a near-linear way, while red meat did not. High meat intake raised risk even among high tea drinkers. Tea did not erase the meat link in their joint and interaction checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sijia Cai, Chuhan Wu, Junhan Zhang, Xiaona Na, Yuefeng Tan, Ai Zhao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |