Eating chicken puts consumers at a higher risk of a rare form of blood cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as well as prostate cancer in men, according to researchers from Oxford University.
The research involved tracking 475,000 middle-aged Britons over a period of eight years between 2006 and 2014.
Their diets were analysed alongside the diseases and illnesses they suffered with.
Around 23,000 of them developed cancer.
'Poultry intake was positively associated with risk for malignant melanoma, prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma', according to the paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The research that was carried out was an 'association study'.
This means that it only shows the correlation between eating chicken and certain types of cancers, rather than investigating the reasons why.
There are a number of factors that could cause this link.
It could mean that the meat itself contains a carcinogen but it could even come down to how the meat is cooked.
Up until now, chicken has been widely regarded as a healthy alternative to red meat.
Red meat is known to raise health risks including breast, prostate and colorectal cancer because of how the blood from the meat product is digested.
Source: dailymail
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All meat causes cancer cells in the body. Most chickens have cancer tumors as well, which you cannot detect once they are cooked. Non-human sialic acid sugar molecule in red meat increases the risk of tumour formation in humans.
Then what should we eat at all