Study: Bacon Linked To Causing Cancer

CBS PHILLY ^ | 02 MARCH 2018 | CBS PHILLY

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer say that bacon acts as a bit of a double whammy in that it is both a red meat and a processed meat.

In a question-and-answer session, a committee of scientists from The World Health Organization explained how exactly red and processed meats are carcinogens.

“According to the most recent estimates by the Global Burden of Disease Project, an independent academic research organization, about 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat,” scientists said, adding that “diets high in red meat could be responsible for 50,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide”.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Avoiding nitrates here also - I look for uncured.

[mass55th]

Got a pound of thick cut bacon thawing in my fridge as I write.

[digger48]

We’re all going to die from Trumps tax cuts anyway, so why not die greasy fingered and happy?

[Duchess47]

I read the same article. Think I’ll go with it and not this one.

[lastchance]

You can bet it will be linked to GW “It’s killing us. It’s killing the planet!”

[Seruzawa]

These people just make stuff up.

[angry elephant]

What is this double whammy they are talking about saying bacon is both a red meat and a processed meat? It is a white meat that is only red because of processing so it is basically the same as ham.

[beethovenfan]

If you stop eating bacon, you won’t really live longer. It will just feel like it.

[Revel]

It sounds like Islamic propaganda.

[Mastador1]

They can have my bacon when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!

[Nifster]

“There is a correlation that both types of meat, red and processed, can increase the risk of colorectal, pancreatic, stomach, and prostate cancer to varying degrees. However, evidence of this is still not conclusive.”

Stupid article. Correlation is NOT causation. Moreover it is the WHO’s effort to get first world countries to stop eating meat and start eating third world diets.

[Digger]

Everyone who eats bacon will die!

Don't tell anyone but rumor has that anyone that eats carrots will die.

[TomGuy]

"... could be responsible ..."

[KTM rider]

The mortality rate for Vegetarians is 100% and most vegetarins are Athiests

Bacon eaters have a higher percentage of Christians who are guaranteed eternal life

[GOPJ]

If you don't eat bacon you'll live an extra 18 months sitting in a nursing home gumming your apple sauce... (wishing yuou had eaten the bacon)

[topspinr]

If it wasn’t for preservatives i wouldn’t be alive today.

[Tuketu]

I seem to remember years ago, the traditional eggs, bacon and coffee was supposed to be unhealthy. Then the Med community reversed their stand.

Give it 10 years and the researchers will be telling you to eat bacon; because the stuff in it kills cancer not causes it.

[sten]

“Dude, if bacon’s what kills me, then I win. “

- Dean Winchester

[jonascord]

Quite correct. If you eat 300 lbs per day, every day, for 50 years, you MIGHT get cancer. So says the UN, a noted expert on all things...

Until next week, when some jerkwater Khazak researcher proves that 400 kilos per day will make you immortal... (At, least, that what he determined, by extrapolation, by a study of his 25 kilo white rat that can't get out of his cage...)

This won't stop Rep. Goofus(D), of California, from ramming thru a bill banning pig farming.

[dfwgator]