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[madoka]

Imma go quietly sob myself to sleep now.

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One sausage a day can significantly raise the risk of bowel cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, experts have warned.

Eating 1.8oz (50g) of processed meat a day - the equivalent of one sausage or three rashers of bacon - raises the likelihood of the cancer by a fifth, research shows.

The sobering statistic adds to growing evidence that too much meat in the diet can be deadly.

Bowel cancer claims 16,000 lives a year in Britain, with lung cancer the only form of the disease which kills more.

However, fewer than one in three Britons is aware of the danger posed by favourite foods such as bacon and sausages, the World Cancer Research Fund warned.

Professor Martin Wiseman, the charity's medical and scientific adviser, said: "We are more sure now than ever before that eating processed meat increases your risk of bowel cancer and this is why WCRF recommends that people avoid eating it.

"The evidence is that whether you are talking about bacon, ham or pastrami, the safest amount to eat is none at all.

"When you consider that eating 50g of processed meat a day can increase your risk of bowel cancer by about a fifth, it is clear that you can make a positive difference by cutting out as much as possible."

Processed meats - those preserved by smoking, salting and any other method apart from freezing - include bacon, ham, pastrami, salami and hot dogs.

Sausages, hamburgers and mince fall into the bracket if they have been preserved with salt or chemical additives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-550729/Why-eating-just-sausage-day-raises-cancer-risk-20-cent.html#ixzz1jN2SUlwF

[Skipperoo]

Can life without bacon really be considered 'living'?

[leicsmac]

Daily Heil article - tells you all you need to know.

Take a look at the wiki page and see how many things the Mail has linked to cancer in the past. It's pretty much become an in-joke now...like I rest of the paper, I guess.

[drydell]

I think you got the wrong meat- cancer link story. The one that came out yesterday was a new link between pancreatic cancer and processed meat..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16541677
Bowel cancer and meat is old news..

[alwaysgood]

The key word here is processed. Eating fresh meat is fine.

Most processed meats contain nitrites, which are know to lead to the formation of carcinogens. The nitrites are there to prevent botulism.

http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/food/hotdogs.htm

Really though, if there is a 20% increase for eating a sausage every day, I don't think moderate consumption is very risky.

[Carbon]

Fear mongering.

Sitting in front of your whatever-emitting monitor reading about everything that will kill you will kill you.

[tophatcat]

My grandfather lived to be 83 years old. I remember him eating pork almost every morning for breakfast. It was natural not processed. Yep, pork, butter, eggs, sausage, milk, etc. He seemed to always be healthy. Of course the vegans will blast this with he could have lived to be 84 if he hadn't eaten the pork.

[ricochet]

the sky is falling! the sky is falling! OMG, the sky is falling...

[The Cosmic Hum]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

[fosterman]

what about the guy who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 90 years.
he quit smoking when he was 103 and lived to be 107 and smoked everyday

how about the study where they said people who sit in front of their pc for more 8 hours a day are risk of developing cancer
coffee, meat, blar blar blar
everyday there is a study which shows you will get cancer.
guess what?

we are all dying of some sort of cancer.

[alwaysgood]

[edwardcatflap]

Google the statistics on bowel cancer and you will see that the lifetime statistical likelihood of getting bowel cancer is around 5%. (Which is what they base this type of study on) Eating too many sausages will increase this to 6%. Not really as 'dramatic' a threat as the Mail would have you believe.

[Panda]

Am I the only one who thinks dirty of this title.

[fosterman]