Processed Meats Cause Cancer

The World Health Organization report said that based on limited evidence, “the consumption of red meat causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect”.

“It is just so good, man. It’s the forbidden love man”, said Cortez Tabb, a bacon fan.

Still if you eat tiny amounts of bacon…hot dogs, or processed meats…your chances of getting colon or stomach cancer go up by about 18 per cent. It does create more oxidized stress in the body.

The report also says cooking red meats at high temperatures will produce the highest amount of chemicals suspected to cause cancer.

The truth is, we’ve known that n-nitrosos are carcinogenic for more than 50 years, but people don’t seem to be dropping left and right, even though we’re eating more meat today than 50 years ago. Meat is still a great source of protein, B vitamins, minerals, iron and zinc. In short, studies that say that eating X causes a Y percent increase in cancer are unhelpful unless I know something about my underlying, baseline probably of cancer is without eating X. Sound off in the comments below. They found that processed meats – which include bacon and sausage – were linked to a raised risk of colorectal cancer.

Joel Berg, spokesman for the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, an advocacy organization, saidthe 2010 federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was renewed last month, has decreased public schools’ reliance on processed meats and salty foods. Human kind has been eating red meat since the first one was able to get up on his or her hind legs…walk…and figure out how to club a wooly mammoth to death for a meal.