More Antibiotics In White Meat or Dark Meat

DESCRIPTION: Concentrations of antibiotic residues vary between different edible muscle tissues in poultry. How long does it take to reduce one's body load of antibiotics from meat? Just days! See yesterday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lower.... Our exposure to drugs given to chickens and turkeys may be one reason poultry consumption has been associated with significantly higher lymphoma and leukemia risk. See EPIC Findings on Lymphoma (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/epic-...) and Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chick.... A Carcinogenic Retrovirus Found in Eggs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/carci...) and poultry may also be playing a role. Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/more-... and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: snowpea&bokchoi and Krista via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org