Hot dogs, bacon and other processed meats increase risk of cancer, scientists say

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I get hot dogs. They are the epitome of 'processed' meats, but bacon?? How is bacon processed the same way hot dogs are?

I assume people are thinking about the things commercial producers use to cure it. Plus the nitrates and added flavorings.

I don't eat bacon very often (I only buy it if Farmer John bacon is on sale) but I enjoy it when I do. Same with hot dogs. I also eat a lot of healthy nuts, raw vegetables and oatmeal. I avoid caffeine, fried foods and eat a low-fat diet. Which gives me such low cholesterol numbers the doctors say, "That can't be right."
 
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Hopefully they don't release another study on the effects of Rocky Road ice cream, specifically Dryers.

I don't smoke, drink or chase girls anymore, so what's left? Ice cream, golf, bacon, football and grandkids... I know grandkids are bad for you, well... bad for your pocketbook anyway.
 

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Breaking: life causes cancer. Please avoid life at all costs IF you do not want cancer.

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Bacon. I come from generations of bacon-eaters who live to be 96 and die when they fall off a chair trying to get a book off a high shelf.
This. The technology and lazy lifestyle of today is a bigger culprit than bacon

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Peoples arrogant attitudes towards health and obesity are probably the biggest factor contributing to our national health crisis and outrageous insurance premiums.

Why should I have to pay gigantic health insurance premiums so Fat Joe can treat his body like a toilet?
If Joe fat worked on a farm all day he wouldn't be Joe fat so is it the foods fault or his lifestyle?

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Hopefully they don't release another study on the effects of Rocky Road ice cream, specifically Dryers.

I don't smoke, drink or chase girls anymore, so what's left? Ice cream, golf, bacon, football and grandkids... I know grandkids are bad for you, well... bad for your pocketbook anyway.
I have noticed that a majority of cancer patients have grand children. Hmmmmmm

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If Joe fat worked on a farm all day he wouldn't be Joe fat so is it the foods fault or his lifestyle?

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That's part of treating your body like a toilet.
 

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Well, Add Kidney Cancer to the List...

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/university-texas-study-links-meat-kidney-cancer

Another study has shown people who eat more meat have a high risk of cancer. This time, it’s kidney cancer, researchers reported Monday.

And it’s not just people who eat red meat, as many other studies have shown. People who eat more so-called white meat, such as chicken, have the higher risk, too.

Dr. Xifeng Wu and colleagues at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston studied 659 patients just diagnosed with kidney cancer and compared them to 699 similar people without cancer.

They wanted to break down not just the link, but to tease out the factors that might explain it. They looked at what kinds of meat people ate, how they cooked it, as well as people’s genetic makeup to see if certain genes made them more susceptible.

People who said they ate the most grilled meat — red meat and chicken alike — had a higher risk of kidney cancer, they reported in the journal Cancer. And those with two genetic mutations that already put people at higher risk of kidney cancer were most affected by the grilled meat risk.
 
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Look at This Crap Cheerios Is Trying to Pull

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/11/cheerios-protein-sugar

Protein is the macronutrient of the moment, embraced by Paleos, low-carb enthusiasts, and other dieters. Sugary breakfast cereals, meanwhile, are out—sales are in the midst of a long, slow decline. Might adding the word "protein" to a hoary old cereal brand spark a sales renaissance? That's the experiment General Mills launched last year when it debuted Cheerios Protein. "I think the protein trend is real. I think it started with [the Atkins diet] back in the day, leveled off and now is gaining steam again," a General Mills exec told The Wall Street Journal at the time.

There's no word on how the product is doing at the supermarket checkout. "We do not release individual product sales data," a company spokesman told me. But the Center for Science in the Public Interest has taken a hard look at the product's label. In a class-action lawsuit filed in a California federal court, CSPI alleges that "General Mills falsely and misleadingly markets Cheerios Protein to children and adults as a high protein, healthful alternative to Cheerios."
In fact, CSPI claims, Cheerios Protein offers just marginally more protein per equivalent serving than the old product—plus, it claims, a startling 17 times more sugar. Insult to injury, General Mills charges a premium for the product: "about 70 cents more per box at stores like Walmart, Giant Foods, and Safeway," CSPI claims in a press release. The lawsuit demands damages for the plaintiffs (aggrieved Cheerios Protein buyers) and an "injunction to stop General Mills’s false and misleading marketing practices with regard to Cheerios Protein."
 

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So if I understand correctly, we're talking about an 18% increase in a 6% rate of cancer? Seems like about a 1% net increase.

I haven't been able to find if the study considered the quality of the meat. Does it apply to grass fed animals?

What about eating red meat with cruciferous veggies? I bet that offsets some of the negative effects of the compounds in the red meat.

I'm not surprised that processed meat has negative consequences, but I'm skeptical of the finding that "fresh cuts of red meat probably cause cancer".
 
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Too much milk = bad

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/10/dairy-industry-milk-federal-dietary-guidelines

Do Americans need so much milk? In 1951, Harvard University nutritionist Mark Hegsted wanted to find out. He had heard all about milk's virtues while growing up on a small Idaho dairy farm, but as he began studying nutrition, he noticed that plenty of people from countries with little dairy were thriving into old age. There was, however, a practical complication that prevented him from experimenting on the general population to understand this paradox: After a person cuts back on calcium, it can take months or years for the change to show up in the body.
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So Hegsted went looking for a chronically calcium-deprived population. He found one at the Central Penitentiary of Lima, Peru. Inmates locked up in the grim, 80-year-old stone prison subsisted on a rice-and-beans diet that was extremely low in calcium. They typically drank milk once a week...

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Hegsted's study was revolutionary—and quickly forgotten. Americans kept on drinking their milk and eating their dairy, with plenty of encouragement from the government. Every five years, with guidance from scientists and heavy lobbying from corporate food and agriculture interests—including the $36 billion dairy industry—the US Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services issue dietary guidelines for the nation. (Once called the Food Pyramid, these guidelines have been renamed MyPlate.)..
 
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