CANCER FOR BREAKFAST?
Bacon and sausages coupled with an egg… the perfect American breakfast? Bad news, my dear friends… America’s favorite breakfast option has now been proven to increase the risk of cancer!!
A research was recently done by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and they have found that eating 50 grams of processed meat a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19%. This was reported by dailychilli.com, the hot news section of The Star publications.
Many other research have been done to show that eating meat will increase risk of us getting cancer…
Do take a look at the interesting statistics from the news report. Eating less meat or going vegetarian is essential if you are really concerned about your health…
Tsem Rinpoche
Bacon increases risk of cancer
Eating two rashers of bacon or one sausage a day can increase your risk of a deadly form of cancer by almost a fifth, according to a new study.
New research by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has found that eating 50g of processed meat a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19%.
For people consuming 100g of processed meat, the increased risk jumps to 38% and is 57% for those eating 150g a day.
But experts cautioned that the overall risk of pancreatic cancer was relatively low. In the UK, the lifetime risk of developing the disease is one in 77 for men and one in 79 for women.
Nevertheless, the disease is deadly – it is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage and kills 80% of people in under a year.
Only 5% of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis.
The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, is based on data from 11 studies including 6,643 cases of pancreatic cancer.
They found inconclusive evidence on the risks of eating red meat overall compared to eating no red meat.
They found a 29% increase in pancreatic cancer risk for men eating 120g per day of red meat but no increased risk among women.
This may be because men in the study tended to eat more red meat than women.
They concluded: “Findings from this meta-analysis indicate that processed meat consumption is positively associated with pancreatic cancer risk.
“Red meat consumption was associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer in men. Further prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings.”
Source: web.orange.co.uk
(Extracted from: dailychilli.com, “Bacon increases risk of cancer”,http://www.dailychilli.com/news/16133-bacon-increases-risk-of-cancer, 13-01-2012)
Thank you for this post and especially the statistics. Also interesting is the corresponding story (link Many research). Its is utter madness to continue to eat meat knowing all these facts, especially when there is just so much more better alternatives now. I think the real problem is not so much not knowing about the risks of consuming processed meats ad other kinds of meat. After all facts abound these days. The real problem is the unwillingness to take on a HABIT.
I have a friend that going thru her chemo now. Nutritionist prescribed her to eat 7 portions of meat (fish, pork, chicken or egg) daily, so that she will hv enough protein. 1 portion of meat is equal to the size of a matches box.
Many research already showing the risk of getting cancer for eating meat, how come nutritionist still adviced patient to eat such a large portion of meat? Aren’t they putting the patient’s health at risk and they might assisting the patient to die faster? Can’t they find protein from plant?
Whatever the reason, please become vegetarian. There are just so many evidence that we should be vegetarian. Please do not procrastinate, become vegetarian now!!
Yeah man, Lew!!
Totally agree with you.
Say NO to meat!
I used to LOVE bacon and ham for breakfast…with this report..I am SO GLAD I stopped taking them. My son loves bacon… I have to advice him from consuming too much meat for is own health. For good health…everyone should try to eat lesser meat… If you can…stop consuming meat would be the best way…
Food products like bacon and sausages found on grocery store in bags or boxes are in fact processed, as it is not in its natural form. Many of the ingredients in processed foods such as artificial colourants, preservatives and nitrites have been linked to obesity and cancer.
Yes, they are convenient for breakfast but deadly.
We don’t have to eat meat just due to promise or spirituality, but purely out of health or environmental reason are really superb. Health wise well we all know what kinds of chemicals,medicine, antibiotics are put into the animals how much healthier will we be by eating a pumped up flesh filled with an assortment of chemicals? Mixing all the chemicals into the meat is obviously a concoction that no one has done research into so why risk it.
In terms of the environment there are statistics that say 18% of the methane gas are generated by the livestock animals, and methane gases are one of the key components contributing to global warming, I mean think of the many countries. lives and people who live near coastal regions soon those places will be uninhabitable, people will be displaced their livelihoods will be affected and so will the polar bears lose the ice caps that have been their source for the hunting etc… What we eat has a lot of consequences!