Posted on 01/13/2012 5:59:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
Breakfast lovers, beware. A new study found eating processed meats like bacon and sausage could increase your risk for deadly pancreatic cancer.
For every piece of sausage or two strips of bacon a person eats every day, there's a 19 percent rise in risk for pancreatic cancer, the study found.
"There is strong evidence that being overweight or obese increases the risk of pancreatic cancer and this study may be an early indication of another factor behind the disease," Dr Rachel Thompson, deputy head of science at The World Cancer Research Fund, told BBC News.
For the study, researchers reviewed 11 studies and case reports on more than 6,000 pancreatic cancer patients, looking for a link between eating red and processed meats and cancer. The researchers found the raised risk was tied to every 50 grams of processed meat a person eats per day. If you're the type who eats 150 grams of processed meat a day - from only three sausages or six strips of bacon - your pancreatic cancer risk shoots up 57 percent, the study suggests.
What about red meat, which has been linked to stomach and esophageal cancers?
Evidence was inconclusive, the researchers said. Men who ate 120 grams of red meat per day saw their pancreatic cancer risk increase 29 percent, compared with men who don't eat red meat. This effect was not seen in women, however, possibly because men in the study ate more red meat than women, the researchers said.
The study is published in the Jan. 12 issue of the British Journal of Cancer.
The numbers sound scary, but experts say this added risk is relatively small when you factor in overall pancreatic cancer rates in the general population. According to the National Cancer Institute, 13.6 per 100,000 U.S. men develop pancreatic cancer, compared with 10.7 pancreatic cases per 100,000 women. The researchers also said smoking is a bigger risk factor, which increases pancreatic cancer risk by 74 percent.
"Pancreatic cancer has poor survival rates," study author associate professor Susanna Larsson, a researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, said in a written statement. "If diet does affect pancreatic cancer, then this could influence public health campaigns to help reduce the number of cases of this disease developing in the first place."
Processed meats, including sausage, pepperoni, bacon, ham, smoked turkey, and hot dogs, often contain nitrates and nitrites, which have been tied to cancer. Last August, a study of 300,000 men and women, published in the journal Cancer, found people who ate large amounts of processed meats had a 30 percent increased risk for bladder cancer, HealthPop reported.
James H. Hodges, president of the American Meat Institute, was not swayed by the new study, because it only took into account epidemiological data, and didn't look at other lifestyle factors that could contribute to cancer. He said in a written statement that eating red and processed meats is part of a healthy, balanced diet.
"More often than not, epidemiological studies, over time, provide more contradictions than conclusions," he said.
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All those rules were changed by the FDA back in '78.
But if you still believe that they are bad, don't eat them.
BTW, I clear my iced windshield with HOT water. And the glass doesn't break.
Now the no hot water on windshields USED to be a good idea... modern windows can stand a lot more stress.
You just have to keep up.
/johnny
>> “Don’t drink the orange juice....unless it says USA !!!!!!” <<
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Don’t drink the OJ at all unless you squeezed it yourself!
OJ is the most fake, processed “food” on the planet.
I switched from bacon and sausage for my health. Instead, I eat corned beef hash, a lot of it, with fried eggs and buttered toast and deep homefries. I switched from nitrates to whatever’s in hash (don’t tell me!). Because I lost my gall bladder some time ago, the grease goes through me like the waterfall tube at the Disney World. I spend the next hour or so on the toilet imitating a space shuttle launch — but it’s worth it!
I wonder what the incresed risk of pancreatic cancer is from all the high fructose corn syrup in just about anything? Oh, you say it lowers the risk of pancreatic cancer? Could that be because the high fructose corn syrup so elevates the incidence of Type 2 diabetes and kills those people before they can develop pancreatic cancer?
How much do I increase my risk of cancer if I go Hannibal Lecter and only eat Vegans?
It isn't in pump cured bacon (most of what is bought), since the rule change June 15th, 1978.
/johnny
Thanks a lot Mr. Pessimism. You see the glass half empty while I see it as half full. I prefer to think of it as 73% of the people who watch television and drive cars are immortal.
In my professional culinary opinion, it depends on how you cure them, but the most concerning issue is the 'stupid liberal' prion that you will likely contract.
It'll make you vote liberal, long after you are dead.
/johnny
/johnny
It is the most beneficial substance that you will ever ingest. It cures so many things that the FDA has outlawed wild almond trees (seriously) because they make health too easily available.
Especially bitter almond.
Did my ex-wife hire you?
/johnny
Studies have shown that 100% of people die eventually of causes. Other than an occasional re-gifted fruit cake, nothing lives forever.
That’s fine if you want to eat them.
Study? You know, if you stare at a grilled cheese sandwich long enough it starts to look like Jesus.
Study? You know, if you stare at a grilled cheese sandwich long enough it starts to look like Jesus.
So Muslims never get it, then, and the Italians and Germans get it all the time?
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