Eating processed meat can lead to bowel cancer in humans while red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said on Monday in findings that could sharpen debate over the merits of a meat-based diet.
The France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the WHO, put processed meat such as hot dogs and ham in its group 1 list, which already includes tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes, for which there is "sufficient evidence" of cancer links.
"For an individual, the risk of developing colorectal (bowel) cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed," Dr Kurt Straif of the IARC said in a statement.
Red meat, under which the IARC includes beef, lamb and pork, was classified as a "probable" carcinogen in its group 2A list that also contains glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weedkillers.
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19 comments:
Not to fear because within a year they will change it to "you need more red meat to prevent cancer".
Eat red meat,don't eat red meat.Drink coffee,don't drink coffee.Drink wine,don't drink wine.I give up.Next we'll be told that breathing is a health hazard.
Isn't "inconclusive evidence" like saying "jumbo shrimp"?
Paraphrase from comment seen on net:
"You'll only take my bacon from my cold cancer-ridden hand!!"
How bout this. The way you raise livestock all but makes having carcinogens in our food a 100% certainty. Factory Farming is the real cancer. The desire to conquer mother nature instead of working with her is the real cancer.
Remember the egg controversy?
Does anyone remember the saccharine scare and the inevitable outcome of proper research?
I never eat a piece of meat that wasn't raised, killed, processed and cooked by me. WHO is a terrorist organization anyway, who gaf what they say?
Eating, drinking, breathing all cause cancer. Just being alive is carcinogenic.
Newsflash, even air can cause cancer! Everything in moderation. I remember my grandmother ate a bacon sandwich (toasted white bread with butter and three slices of bacon), and drank one large mug of hot coffee everyday of her life and she lived to be 89 years old.
Lean red meat with no steroids or antibiotics are not carcinogenic. Deer meat is a fine example . Venison is very healthy
Right 4:30. It's not the meat but what is done to it. What the animals are fed and all the chemicals put in them. Then all the stuff they put into it before selling it. Look at Perdue chicken. That's some gross crap right there. When you cook it the pan is swimming in some kind of disgusting liquid that is not fat. Humans were not meant to be ingesting all these chemicals. Just food in it's purest form.
If you look at the people that released the "result" without releasing the actual study, you will find one of the authors is a long time anti meat fruitcake named Rashmi Sinha.
Look her up. She's a nutcase
I hope Obama is eating bacon everyday for breakfast!
My grandfather ate bacon every day and he lived to be 105.He died when he chased a soccer ball & ran in front of a really big truck.Who knows how long he WOULD have lived.
The bacon, the lunch meats, the hot dogs aren't what they used to be. The expire dates have gotten into the months now instead of a few weeks. I started noticing this about 10 years ago. Whatever it is that is added to preserve so long can't be any good for the human body.
just so we eat bugs instead of meat & to put the farmers out of business.
12% solution is poison in itself. Avoid it.
Red meat is safe and necessary for a healthy diet.
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