Sinister sausage - will you still eat processed meat?

Very good post - people mock the "eh, everything causes cancer these days" approach but frankly you'll be able to find research linking most things with an increased risk of some sort of cancer. That the risk is increased isn't what you should be looking at, it's what the risk is increased to and whether that's a significant risk.

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at least here its a significant risk.

A risk of under six percent when the meat free diet still presents a five percent risk is not significant; in real terms it's a 0.9% extra risk, not worth taking seriously

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true.
still 3% of those eating red/processed meat will get cancer, and therefore one in hundred people who eat red/processed meat will die from it.
hope I'm one of the 99.

Three percent would be three in every hundred which is still quite small, and cancer is very survivable these days.

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The negative health effects of eating meat are no where near as bad or as prominent as obesity. Stop talking nonsense.

Smoking only does harm?

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This information has been around for so long, how has it only been published in the news now?

I hardly ever eat processed meat, I only eat meat that my mum buys from the butchers and cooks tbh.

Though this news isn't gonna make people change their minds...

Now if you say red meats and processed foods will reduce penis length then THAT would be another story entirely.

I've been cutting down on red & processed meat for a while, as my family has an extensive history of bowel cancer

I never once mentioned obesity...

Oh is "fat" not synonymous with obese anymore? Somebody should have told me...

Hi, I'm not going to read through the whole thread, so apologies if someone has already said this. Also, if you already know this, then you can obviously ignore it

You say your family has an extensive history of bowel cancer? Have any of you been tested to see if it is caused by a hereditary gene mutation?

You see, it was only after my dad got bowel cancer (his dad and sister had already died from it and plenty of cousins had it too) that they got it checked out and it transpires that some of us have something called Lynch Syndrome which increases the risk of bowel cancer (and other cancers) significantly.

If one of your parents has it, there is a 50% possibility of you having it. If you don't have it, then you don't have to worry, but if you do, then they give you colonoscopies every two years to make sure that no cancer develops or that it is caught early.

If you haven't already been checked out, then I would really recommend it

Hey,

Thanks so much for the information I'm not sure what tests have been done Neither of my parents have had it, but it is in the family (many cousins/aunts/uncles) so my father and his siblings have regular checkups.

I'm sorry to hear about your dad Hope you're doing okay, too.

Being overweight is not the same s being obese.

I'm amazed no-one has ever told you that but happy to take the task on myself.

It's okay - my dad got through it by the skin of his teeth (and thanks to my mum's expert care) and since his operation, he's been completely cancer free

I'm pleased to hear that your dad and his siblings are getting regular check-ups. You could still talk to your GP about getting referred to a genetics clinic so that you can find out more, but as long as you're all being careful and managing the risk then that's good.

I've just been invited to take part in a clinical trial to find out more about how aspirin reduces bowel cancer rates, so hopefully I'll be able to do something to help future generations to avoid it

You never said overweight. You said "fat". Stop trying to worm your way out with lies.

Fat doesn't necessarily mean clinically obese though.


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I bet you mum buys the WEE WILLIE WINKIE sausages for you.