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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:51 AM Oct 2015

TYT: STUDY: Bacon Gives You Cancer



In a tragic turn of events, the World Health Organization announced that eating processed meats raises one’s risk of getting cancer. The study concluded that red meat and processed meat should be labeled as carcinogens. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Will this make you less likely to eat processed meats? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/26/hot-dogs-bacon-and-other-processed-meats-cause-cancer-world-health-organization-declares/

“A research division of the World Health Organization announced Monday that bacon, sausage and other processed meats cause cancer and that red meat probably does, too.

The report by the influential group stakes out one of the most aggressive stances against meat taken by a major health organization, and it is expected to face stiff criticism in the United States.

The WHO findings were drafted by a panel of 22 international experts who reviewed decades of research on the link between red meat, processed meats and cancer. The panel reviewed animal experiments, studies of human diet and health, and cell mechanisms that could lead from red meat to cancer.”
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TYT: STUDY: Bacon Gives You Cancer (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Oct 2015 OP
How Much and How often. imthevicar Oct 2015 #1
5% to 6% per ABC nightly news tonight. That is if you eat at least 2pieces every single day yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #2
2 pieces? imthevicar Oct 2015 #3
Sodium Nitrite wildbilln864 Oct 2015 #4
with all of the bacon I consume every week... chillfactor Oct 2015 #5
Well... imthevicar Oct 2015 #14
Breathing the air in a lot of cities will do the same. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #6
Yeah we're all gonna die LiberalElite Oct 2015 #9
Probably too late for me DFW Oct 2015 #7
It is only too late when you are dead Geronimoe Oct 2015 #10
Healing is relative DFW Oct 2015 #11
Seems like old news to me - nitrates LiberalElite Oct 2015 #8
We were warned about nitrites (slight difference) in processed meat 40 years ago. DFW Oct 2015 #12
Our ironic foods system makes nitrite-free things--charges much more librechik Oct 2015 #13
 

imthevicar

(811 posts)
3. 2 pieces?
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:26 AM
Oct 2015

Last edited Wed Oct 28, 2015, 02:53 AM - Edit history (1)

Is that per meal, day, week, Month year, ETC. What Brand, Home made? Just salt, or Sodium Nitrate as well? The method, THE METHOD! I want to see the Method as well as the results. Did they choose Lab rats that were prone to cancer, is this like the Egg shortage that caused the Eggs give you High Cholesterol propaganda that was perpetrated by the Johnson White house? to say Simply that 2 pieces of any Bacon will give you cancer is a generalization, and "all generalizations are dangerous including this one!" - Heinline

DFW

(54,330 posts)
7. Probably too late for me
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:05 AM
Oct 2015

Although I pretty much cut out red meat in 1987 and never liked bacon, I sometimes ate processed turkey roll. But that still means I had about 35 years of eating red meat. Add that to the fact that both my parents and all of their siblings had cancer, and with me it's not a question of "if," but "when." Still, if I've put it off a few years, no harm in that. Of course, if my heart stents fail, none of that will matter.

 

Geronimoe

(1,539 posts)
10. It is only too late when you are dead
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 08:56 AM
Oct 2015

You can have drastic improvement and start healing within weeks and months by eating healthy.

DFW

(54,330 posts)
11. Healing is relative
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:08 AM
Oct 2015

With cancer, you often don't even know you have it until it's too late. My dad stopped smoking in his forties, remained athletic until his late seventies, and used to beat guys at tennis 20 years younger than he was at age 77. Until he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, that is. As it is, he lasted 11 months, but it was too late--by the time he was diagnosed it was not curable. We wondered if it was a late manifestation of his having attended an above-ground atomic bomb test in Nevada at age 35, but 43 years later, who could say?

His (typical for him) comment upon hearing his fatal diagnosis: "So much for clean living!"

DFW

(54,330 posts)
12. We were warned about nitrites (slight difference) in processed meat 40 years ago.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:10 AM
Oct 2015

But they still use them in the States everywhere, I noticed, last time I was home.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
13. Our ironic foods system makes nitrite-free things--charges much more
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:35 AM
Oct 2015

for the privilege of eating stuff that won't kill us. Welcome to Orwelliland

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