Researchers Find that eating Red Meat can cause thickening of artery walls due to deposition of fat leading to Cardiac problems

L-Carnitine is a common food supplement and naturally occurs in red meat. This nutrient is metabolized into trimethyl metabolites by the gut microbiota and is associated with an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease. A recent study provides new insights into this link by exploring how the gut microbiota generates proatherogenic metabolites from L-carnitine and how the microbiota is altered in response to an omnivorous diet.

The article can be found at http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n5/pdf/nm.3145.pdf