Trying to drop pounds? Try minimizing your intake of red meat in your diet. (August 2006)

After evaluating the diet and health data of 56,000 Swedish women, Tufts researchers found the meat eaters were significantly more likely to be overweight than their vegetarian peers.

If a lower weight isn’t incentive enough to go greener, how about a longer life? Another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a low meat intake was associated with a 3.6 increase in life expectancy.