Posted on 03/07/2013 7:52:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you love sausages, hot dogs, and brats, you might be in for a shorter life, a new study suggests.
The study analyzed data from half a million men and women, as a part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. It was published in the journal BMC Medicine [PDF]. They found a link between "processed" meat — which includes all meat products, including ham, bacon, sausages; small part of minced meat that has been bought as a ready-to-eat product — and cardiovascular disease and cancer, they report.
Also, they found that the more processed meat you eat the more likely you are to die early (of anything). A previous study of just red meat came to a similar conclusion.
The researchers think the increased cancer risk could be due to the presence of preservatives like the salt, smoke and nitrate. Also, the high levels of fat in these meats. "Risks of dying earlier from cancer and cardiovascular disease also increased with the amount of processed meat eaten," study researcher Sabine Rohrmann, from the University of Zurich, said in a statement [PDF].
"Overall, we estimate that 3 percent of premature deaths each year could be prevented if people ate less than 20g processed meat per day."
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Life is a terminal disease.
Life will kill you.
So right! This is just another phony "study" designed to spread an ideological meme under the cover of being "scientific." With a little time and effort "studies" can be designed to "prove" anything.
Do you wrap them in Bacon when you take them?
Excellent! You’ve got most of the biggies covered right there!
I’ve read that something like 75% of Americans are deficient in magnesium, and I know for me it helps.
Since the article, NOR the attached video, fails to define “shorter than WHEN”, I will place this European waste of time, in the intergalactic bit file 13 bucket.
Since my 60 dollar ‘great shakes Anolon do-all pan’ has a hot spot, and the customer return/service center is based in the U.K., I’m returning to a certain Tennessee’s foundry products!
I eat brats, sausage, bacon, eggs, red meat, white meat, the ‘other’ white meat, Bambi, Thumper, seafood, shellfish, and those Tuskers, and yes, momma, my dairy and veggies, too.
For your own good, send your bacon to me.
Some individuals clearly have an inherited tendency to atherosclerosis which can be aggravated by diet. So, if you have this predisposition, it is both genetics AND diet. Other examples also.
Paging Nanny Bloomberg... after you deal with loud earphones... here is your next target...
Well, I guess I’ll die happy then.
I have no doubt you are correct. However, it is genetics that sets the stage for a bad outcome from diet.
Give up bacon and sausage = Live longer.
Nope.
Not worth it.
I’ll take the slightly shorter life with a side of bacon, please.
Get a colonoscopy every few years, and make sure they get all the polyps. And aside from your bacon and sausage, eat a high-fiber diet.
HERESY!
“My Grandmother, bless her heart, lived to be 98 years old. She ate heavy amounts of bacon, fried eggs etc. In general terms I think it is genetics that determines long life, not what one eats.”
Agreed. There is far, far more of “what and who we are” that is determined by genetic heritage than we yet know (or may ever be willing to admit)...
Good. Quit. More for me!
That strip of bacon should have been donated to the Elvis museum!
Get a colonoscopy???
The V.A. is still in litigation, for 3000 veterans were infected, due to “bad procedures” (go look it up), leaving some with Hep-C, and a few with HIV.
My V.A. team doctor, (Dangerfield’s Dr. Boombahts), keeps asking, and I keep saying not for now!
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