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Sausages, bacon tied to early deaths?
indiatimes.com ^ | Mar 8, 2013, 07.25 AM IST | Kounteya Sinha, TNN |

Posted on 03/07/2013 7:11:50 PM PST by BenLurkin

LONDON: The bacon and sausage on your plate or those steaming hot pies are increasing your chances of premature death from cancer and heart disease. Processed meat is to blame for one in 30 early deaths, a large-scale study has now found.

The EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study involving 10 countries and 23 centres in Europe and almost half a million people has found that risk of premature death increased with the amount of processed meat eaten by a person. According to the study, even one sausage a day is bad for your health.

The researchers say that salting, curing and smoking of meat gives rise to carcinogens like nitrosamines, and these may be the cause of the increased cancer mortality.

Processed meat products are also high in cholesterol and saturated fats, which are linked with increased risk of heart and circulatory disease.

Professor Sabine Rohrmann from the University of Zurich, who led this analysis explained, "Risks of dying earlier from cancer and cardiovascular disease increased with the amount of processed meat eaten such as sausages, salami or ham. Overall, we estimate that 3% of premature deaths each year could be prevented if people ate less than 20g processed meat per day."

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: bacon; carcinogens; epic; foodnazis; morebs; sausage; scaretactics
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To: john drake

Yeah, but as long as I’m able to eat me some pork and PO some islamic nut bags, I’m good. Hopefully it’ll PO some radical left wing extremist demokkkrat scumbags for some reason too. Maybe some peta scummers too.................(maniacal laughter.........)


41 posted on 03/07/2013 8:54:12 PM PST by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: BenLurkin

I switched from bacon to lean ham.

It probably won’t help at all


42 posted on 03/07/2013 8:57:42 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: BenLurkin

Balderdash...
Here a bacon, there a bacon...
My favorite place for breakfast is Shoney’s...endless bacon...pure pig-out time...


43 posted on 03/07/2013 9:03:56 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: Terry L Smith

It was????............Good grief.


44 posted on 03/07/2013 9:35:29 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: BenLurkin

Burp ...

45 posted on 03/07/2013 10:43:05 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

A perfectly balanced meal, IMHO.


46 posted on 03/07/2013 10:46:41 PM PST by llevrok (Keep your arms out. It makes it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
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To: Squantos
Dang it! Now you're going to have me thinking all night about breakfast.
47 posted on 03/07/2013 10:46:41 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: count-your-change

I just love your post:


According to the hog unions processed meats are killing their members herd by herd.

“First they came for the sows ears, then the pork rinds, when they came for the sausage it was all over.”, Porky Pig.


48 posted on 03/07/2013 10:48:44 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: ChildOfThe60s

There is all kind of preservative free bacon.


49 posted on 03/07/2013 10:49:54 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: mountn man

I wonder if they used nitrates in those days.

I get uncured from Krogers but still don’t eat it very often.


50 posted on 03/07/2013 10:59:42 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: The Cajun

Yep ....had to go make some myself for same reason.....

Stay safe !


51 posted on 03/07/2013 11:48:44 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: llevrok

With moderation as well I might add....:o)


52 posted on 03/07/2013 11:51:01 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: BenLurkin
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Certain death!

I never ate Twinkies. ...but I miss them.

53 posted on 03/07/2013 11:56:08 PM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Rembrandt
Tofu bacon. Doesn't it look yummie?


54 posted on 03/07/2013 11:59:26 PM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Yaelle

You’re welcome to it. Cheers!


55 posted on 03/08/2013 12:08:36 AM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: BenLurkin

There is an absolutely enormous number of people on Planet Earth who simply cannot abide the thought that someone, somewhere, might actually be enjoying life.


56 posted on 03/08/2013 12:48:53 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: The Cajun

“Now you’re going to have me thinking all night about breakfast.”

We never eat bacon, but have been thinking a lot about it after stumbling on to the show, “United States Of Bacon”, on TV last week. Good grief - they showed some decadent, but yummy looking stuff. Interesting show.


57 posted on 03/08/2013 2:12:44 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: BenLurkin

I had a brother in law who ate bacon or what ever every morning, in fact he would eat anything that would not eat him first, and he also drink modestly.

He died at 101.


58 posted on 03/08/2013 3:10:37 AM PST by ravenwolf
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To: BenLurkin

This “study” is bogus. There is no way to accomodate all the variables, therefore, it’s not science, it’s agenda. Therefore, I think I’ll have processed meat for lunch.


59 posted on 03/08/2013 3:47:29 AM PST by Big Giant Head
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To: dvan

Congress must act to register sausage and bacon. Anyone buying or consuming it should be prosecuted.

Either that or they should make it free for all seniors.

Kill them off so they cn get the inheritance tax sooner.


60 posted on 03/08/2013 4:01:24 AM PST by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by Obama")
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