Vegetarian for a day

WITH our high consumption of meat in Ireland, a vegetarian day is a good idea.

Harvard School of Medicine researchers last year discovered that cutting down red and processed meat by the equivalent of one large steak a week could prevent one in 10 early deaths in men, and one in 13 in women.

Replacing this amount of meat with whole grains, vegetables, poultry or fish cuts the risk of dying prematurely by up to one fifth.