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Breaking News: Evidence suggests red/processed meat increases cancer risk.

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Reply 20

Gwilym101

Original post by ian.slater

See my post .... 5% to 6% for daily bacon sandwich.

Fair enough, not really worth worrying about then.

Reply 21

Betelgeuse-

Being alive increases your risk of cancer

Reply 22

Faisalshamallakh

Original post by Betelgeuse-

Yet another example of the Quran being scientifically perfect. Avoid Pig allah said and BAM! Bacon and hotdogs contain carcinogens

No mention of the Quran or Allah. Sigh, some people's IQ levels.

Reply 23

Betelgeuse-

Original post by Faisalshamallakh

No mention of the Quran or Allah. Sigh, some people's IQ levels.

He warned us to stay away from these wretched swines and look, after all these years they turn out to be cancerous thus proof he truly is God

Reply 24

Captain Haddock

Well then you can pry my chorizo from my cold, dead hands. Yo como lo que quiero comer.

Reply 25

MrKmas508

Original post by Betelgeuse-

He warned us to stay away from these wretched swines and look, after all these years they turn out to be cancerous thus proof he truly is God

Reply 26

Betelgeuse-

Original post by MrKmas508

lol

Reply 27

a noble chance

Something for people to note:

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According to Professor Sir Richard Doll (the man who first discovered a correlation between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s) research suggests that if you start smoking as a teenager and quit aged 30, the risk of developing lung cancer is 2 per cent; give up at 50 and the risk goes up to 8 per cent; give up at 70 (by which time you have been smoking for more than 50 years) and the risk rises to 16 per cent.

BBC News

50g of processed meat a day - less than two slices of bacon - increased the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%

Reply 28

joey11223

Original post by a noble chance

Something for people to note:

So basically a bit of processed meat is a greater carcinogen than a lifetime to smoking it seems...

Though a point was raised that I'd be interested in, how does one define processed? There's a big difference between the sort of chemicals involved in the lowest quality supermarket bacon and the "fresh" cured meat product a butcher can produce.

Not a huge issue for me, as I'm mainly a white meat eater, incredibly rare to have bacon. Though I do have sausages once a week. But again, there's a gulf between a Sainsbury's basics sausage where a minority is meat and the rest is god knows what, and something freshly made by a quality butcher.

Then again it says red meat and processed. So does the beef/pork have the same carcinogenic properties before it's "processed", if not how processed does it need to be to become this great danger. Is me eating 70g of raw beef better than that same 70g which has been made into some sort of processed beef based product, say a supermarket frozen grillsteak with added rusk and such.

I understand the increased carcinogenic risk from BBQ food, but that's more soot from the coals on the food.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 29

hellodave5

Did they control for other behaviors like diet and exercise generally? Pretty big confounds...

Reply 30

Faisalshamallakh

Original post by Betelgeuse-

He warned us to stay away from these wretched swines and look, after all these years they turn out to be cancerous thus proof he truly is God

You can make fun of my religion all you want. From children you must expect childish acts.

Reply 31

z33

white meat ftw!

I swear this was old news or maybe I'm crazy lol...

Reply 32

Dilzo999

Sacrifices are needed for dem gainz!!!

Reply 33

TimmonaPortella

Original post by a noble chance

Something for people to note:

I think people should also note that, as to the red meat thing, what is being said is that the risk is increased by 18%, not to 18%. In this context, they should note that an 18% increase in a 1% risk results in a risk of 1.18%.

It seems that the actual numbers are a little higher than that:

Original post by ian.slater

David Spiegelhalter points out that this increases the chance that a given person gets bowel cancer from 5% to 6%.www.ima.org.uk/_db/_documents/maths09_spiegelhalter.pdfNote his talk was in 2009 and the news hasn't changed.

Anyway, I eat bacon and/or sausage maybe two or three times a week, and unprocessed pork/beef probably the same. I probably won't change my diet at all in response to this because #YOLO