‘Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer, the World Health Organisation has said.
Its report says each 50g of processed meat a day – the equivalent of one sausage, or less than two slices of bacon – increases the chance of developing bowel cancer by 18 per cent…’
Wabbit frankly doesn’t believe this. And reading the article shows that the headline is deliberately misleading.
A man died of old age in Tauranga a few years ago, he was 104 when he died. A retired butcher. All he had for breakfast his entire adult life was bacon and eggs. The point is some people are susceptible to cancers some are not, its the luck of the draw.
Was watching news on this and a reporter said that bowel cancer in the Veggie community was the same. So points more to a genetic problem.
Rob
give me a break – all food is bad for you if all you do is eat and sit on your dumb ass all day and night… I eat the bacon, sausage, ham, pork-chops, ribs, steaks cooked in butter, hamburgers, tacos and burritos and pasta… but I walk. I go hiking, I don’t drive to get to the corner store. So walk and lift something – doing ten minutes of hammer curls with a one gallon milk jug will do you good, but if you are not going to use up the energy and protein that the meat provides – yeah, your gonna get fat and eventually sick… all the hormones in American meat don’t help either – but that is for another argument.
I immediately had 1/4 lb. of bacon –and- I’m still alive!!!
Carol-CS
Carol,at least once a week I have three strips of bacon and a sausage patty on top of a three stack of pancakes topped off with Maple syrup and washed down with a glass of ice cold milk.The combination I find gives me nearly god like powers
When will you invite us all for breakfast?
You just described what I eat on Sunday morning. When it comes to food I have come to one conclusion – eat what my grandfathers ate, they lived healthy productive lives and passed on in their mid 90s… and there was always bacon and red meat.
Cad,anytime,combination is best on a cold morning before serious work.
Victor,absolutely my contention.My Grandparents were the same way.They ate mostly what they produced on the farm or bartered for.”Health food”is when you produce your own.
Some of my earliest memories as a toddler were helping my grandmother pick green peas and squash and gather Eggs.I think every child should grow up on a Farm,if they did the world would be a better place I think.
I have those same memories – when I was child living in Mexico, the only food that did not come from my grandfathers ranch was the rice and beans, everything else we grew, raised or traded with the neighbors for… you know, swap a goat for a pig, corn for some rice… and I grew up around rich food… my fathers family was in Louisiana and I also lived there as a boy and that food… man o’ man… they got some good food there… nobody in my family was fat when I was growing up and it was just plain unheard of for anyone to get sick from food – the first time I heard that kids were allergic to peanuts I thought it was a joke… that was unheard of when I was a kid… my mother is now 76, she is a tiny skinny lady and has 3 or 4 strips of bacon every day usually around lunch or she’ll make a bacon sandwich before she calls it a night… I don’t get it… a few years ago I let myself get heavy. I had become less active as I chased those federal reserve notes… but I got back in shape again and I eat whatever the hell I want, I don’t really know what makes people sick from food but… if it works and it hasn’t killed you yet… I’ll see you on Sunday for pancakes.
Ha,My Grandmother on momma’s side was born and raised in Edgard,La,just up the river a ways from New Orleans.Love the food,Seafood Gumbo,Red Beans and Rice,Boudin and Chicken Jambalaya,Shrimp and Meliton you done flung a craving on me!
yup… it’s going on midnight here in El Paso and I’m getting them Cajun craving too just thinking about it… My fathers family was in Cut Off, La. and Louisiana is on the other side of Texas… might as well be on the other side of the world… just a bowl of red beans and rice would be nice
I can recall my grandparents eating fried bread which they occasionally gave to me. It was fried in the fat (or dripping ) from the Sunday roast and was delicious with bacon, eggs, tomatoes etc…
that sounds good too…
Fried green Tomatoes with red eye gravy,grits and a buttermilk cathead biscuit with coffee and chicory……..the only place to find it is down south,Yankees don’t know what good coffee is.
mmmmm…dripping…
oh yeah… if it’s not dripping or oozing or melting into whatever sits next to it on the plate I don’t want it… I can’t make it the way mom did – but she would always take the left over grease from whatever she had cooked – fried chicken or meat… and use it to make this rich heavy gravy that had the chunks of the meat of fried chicken bits in it.. and I would just drown everything on the plate with that gravy and my brothers would fight for the gravy bowl after dinner… to lick it clean and if we didn’t have any biscuits that night… plain old white bread was just fine for dipping
Wabbit is right. This “statistic” comes from a highly suspect data source know as a self-reported retrospective epidemiological study. They take people with bowel cancer and get them to self-report their diet over the past 20 years. Then they do the same with people the same age group who don’t have cancer. Aside from the absurdity of trying to get folk, who can barely recall what they had for breakfast, what they ate 10-20 years ago, there is a scientifically verified bias to such recall. I.e. If you have cancer, you are more inclined to blame the processed food and therefore recall more than there actually was. In the science community, we call this method of statistics by its scientific name – absolute bollocks.
It is the same sort of “analysis” that was used to determine that cell phone use causes brain cancer, despite there being no increase in brain cancer stats in the last 30 years.
Yup,my old neighbor did everything wrong.He fried his eggs in the grease left over from the Bacon(American Bacon,not that Ham looking stuff) while smoking his Pall Mall non-filters and drinking coffee that could pass for burnt motor oil.He lived well into his 90’s until he finally died from Pneumonia which we believe he took ill with after passing out drunk and sleeping on his front porch in the middle of winter.
“In the science community, we call this method of statistics by its scientific name – absolute bollocks. ”
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance,baffle them with bull shit”
Another case that belies this crap was a documentary I saw a few years ago on the worlds oldest people. They went right around the world interviewing the people past 100 years of age. They all had varying lifestyles, eating habits etc. They came to a 100 year old man exactly 100 years of age and England’s oldest working person. He was interviewed at his work where he was a car detailer, polishing cars by hand. He was tall and skinny. The interviewer noticed he was smoking and he was asked how long he had been smoking and he said he started at age 5 having being brought up in an orphanage where he used to pinch the staffs’ cigarettes. This man was re interviewed later in the day at the local pub where he always had several pints of beer after work. Asked on this occasion about his diet and some other things he stated that all he ate was bacon and eggs. At this time he also stated that he smoked two packs of cigarettes daily. I take from this is that longevity is all down to genetics.
You guys…..really!
Here is a plate of 100% healthy food. No gluten, no calories, no preservatives…
http://i.imgur.com/vZ5mGWl.jpg
But it’s not Carbon neutral unless you just eat the table.
This article demonstrates what we have become-blind sheep.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3289014/Why-fat-people-charged-fly-s-not-fair-people-suffer-age-supersize-traveller.html
Yup,there are a bunch of fat folks around,I can pass for one myself,but the writer and most of the commenters miss the bigger picture-airlines that keep stuffing more and more seats into the same cabin are a bigger problem.If everybody was 5’6″ and 140 lbs the airlines would have five rows of seats per aisle instead of three.
Yep.
This guy supposedly did research, got it published, and supposedly peer reviewed.
Just to prove that journalists are easily suckered with science.
http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800
Then formulated a press release that
Dam it, The above wrecked my day, until I broke another piece of the slab.
Whittaker’s were doing very well from me. I had even logically moved across to the Dark side. Just really appreciated “putting a gloss on the t%%d”
Such wicked perniciousness as I have just checked the spelling and added an apostrophe to the brand.
Next step I thought was that the government based on science would be funding my chocolate weight reducing addiction. I am sure my Dr. would have written a prescription
Sounds like a walk-in to epic levels of tax.
Don your tin foil hat. Readily available protein has always been a thorn in the side of government.
You feed people like sheep and they become sheep.
You feed people like lions and they become lions.
There are plenty of folks down at the UN who would love nothing more than to enforce a mandatory vegetarian diet on us, and by vegetarian I should more specifically say rice, potatoes and barely enough legumes to provide us with a near-starvation levels of protein that will barely get us through the day.
This is the historical diet of serfs and peons because it roots the body in low gear, suitable for mindless drone work all day long but not conducive to armed rebellion in the slightest.
I don’t think a tin foil hat is a requirement here, Wombat. I fully suspect you are either close to, or spot on, the trail of truth.
Just part of the civilized world enthusiastically preparing for its self-imposed universal Islamic Sharia law.
Yep.
Some serious science on colorectal cancer risks published in the well known International Journal of Cancer. Ref – Bao Y, et al. Int J Cancer. 2012.
“In conclusion, reports of eating anything at anytime are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer in this large prospective cohort study, independent of other potential risk factors for colorectal cancer.”
Yes you did. Here’s a link to the summary.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21520042/