Skeptical
I have a hard time with this study since it came to the conclusion that eating red meat decreases your lifetime. This is just statistical analysis and fails to explain what is causing "premature death". I have been a vegetarian for more than 20 years but I am not jumping on the red meat is bad for you wagon.
I have read other strange statistical studies that correlated the lengths of the ring and index fingers to show that people who have equal ring and index fingers are smarter, healthier, sexier, wealthier and better than others. The problem I see with this type of study is that it uses a certain attribute as if that is all that is needed to define a sub group in a population; the study justifies itself by correlating another feature that may or may not actually relate to the studied attribute.
In this case the loss of life span is based on actuarial records that are continually changing and comparing it with the amount of red meat eaten in that lifetime. If the study showed that premature death occurred with the same disease or cause of death then it might have more meaning beyond statistics.
