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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Shorter??? Maybe. Happier? Absolutely!!!
Being Jewish, I'm being bad for eating pounds and pounds of bacon and sausage... But it's SO TASTY!
Mark
The study was paid for by "Big Tofu!"
Mark
RE: Being Jewish, I’m being bad for eating pounds and pounds of bacon and sausage... But it’s SO TASTY!
Can’t they make LAMB hot dog or LAMB style BACON?
The Rabbi can then inspect them for Kosher...
I agree. On the old issue of Nature(Genetics) vs Nurture(The Culture)most Americans fall on the “Nurture” side of the argument. Such a position ultimately falls on the egalitarian democratic end of political philosophy.
Well, there is that.
I trust that you have a colonoscopy now and then. Colon CA runs in families.
Actually, I really love all beef hot dogs, and there are some great Kosher franks, including one made by Nathan's Famous.
But I have yet to find anything that comes close to the flavor of real pork bacon... I just LOVE the stuff...
Mark
Pork loins? Wrapped in bacon. Oh my Lord...heavenly.
So choose between bacon and short-but not guaranteed-life, or possible - but not guaranteed - long life without bacon?
No-brainer. Fire up the pan.
I figure the last nine minutes of my life probably aren’t going to be all that great anyway. I’ll have another piece of bacon....
Multiply 365 by 19.4 grams (19.5 would be rounded to 20), which is 7081 grams. Divide by the number of grams in one slice. That's how many slices of bacon it is safe to eat in a year.
Nobody gets out of this world alive.
No, but I dont see why you couldn’t!
Bacon goes with everything!
You can live one year longer miserably eating dried grass and tree bark for the rest of your life or die one year earlier and a lot happier with the smell of bacon still on your last breath.
My grandfather ate bacon and eggs or steak and eggs every morning. Poor man only lived till 96, a robust and healthy man until the last two months of his life. His secret? He never went to the doctor and took no medicine.
RE: Poor man only lived till 96, a robust and healthy man until the last two months of his life.
I’ve heard people who have heard cases like the above and they would argue that your Grandpa would have lived to be 120 if he modified his diet.
Do you poop curry? Just kidding. I’ve heard good things about turmeric, etc.
How about Spam? Spam eggs sausages and Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam? Ain’t got much Spam in it.
It’s called BACON EXPLOSION.
You can order one ONLINE.
Complete recipe and photos and online order :
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/
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