Posted on 01/13/2012 5:59:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
Breakfast lovers, beware. A new study found eating processed meats like bacon and sausage could increase your risk for deadly pancreatic cancer.
For every piece of sausage or two strips of bacon a person eats every day, there's a 19 percent rise in risk for pancreatic cancer, the study found.
"There is strong evidence that being overweight or obese increases the risk of pancreatic cancer and this study may be an early indication of another factor behind the disease," Dr Rachel Thompson, deputy head of science at The World Cancer Research Fund, told BBC News.
For the study, researchers reviewed 11 studies and case reports on more than 6,000 pancreatic cancer patients, looking for a link between eating red and processed meats and cancer. The researchers found the raised risk was tied to every 50 grams of processed meat a person eats per day. If you're the type who eats 150 grams of processed meat a day - from only three sausages or six strips of bacon - your pancreatic cancer risk shoots up 57 percent, the study suggests.
What about red meat, which has been linked to stomach and esophageal cancers?
Evidence was inconclusive, the researchers said. Men who ate 120 grams of red meat per day saw their pancreatic cancer risk increase 29 percent, compared with men who don't eat red meat. This effect was not seen in women, however, possibly because men in the study ate more red meat than women, the researchers said.
The study is published in the Jan. 12 issue of the British Journal of Cancer.
The numbers sound scary, but experts say this added risk is relatively small when you factor in overall pancreatic cancer rates in the general population. According to the National Cancer Institute, 13.6 per 100,000 U.S. men develop pancreatic cancer, compared with 10.7 pancreatic cases per 100,000 women. The researchers also said smoking is a bigger risk factor, which increases pancreatic cancer risk by 74 percent.
"Pancreatic cancer has poor survival rates," study author associate professor Susanna Larsson, a researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, said in a written statement. "If diet does affect pancreatic cancer, then this could influence public health campaigns to help reduce the number of cases of this disease developing in the first place."
Processed meats, including sausage, pepperoni, bacon, ham, smoked turkey, and hot dogs, often contain nitrates and nitrites, which have been tied to cancer. Last August, a study of 300,000 men and women, published in the journal Cancer, found people who ate large amounts of processed meats had a 30 percent increased risk for bladder cancer, HealthPop reported.
James H. Hodges, president of the American Meat Institute, was not swayed by the new study, because it only took into account epidemiological data, and didn't look at other lifestyle factors that could contribute to cancer. He said in a written statement that eating red and processed meats is part of a healthy, balanced diet.
"More often than not, epidemiological studies, over time, provide more contradictions than conclusions," he said.
We all have a 100% chance of dying ...this kind of propaganda makes me nuts
Almost everyone eats bacon or sausage of some kind.. if this was true the incidence of pancreatic cancer would be much greater ...
When it says “study” you know that a huge hoax is unfolding.
Actually, the saturated fats in the bacon are a strong defense against any kind of cancer.
Pancreatic cancer, like all cancer is the direct result of anaerobic, fermentative metabolism. Keep the carbs and polyunsaturated fats out of your diet and live.
Sounds like an agenda to me, not science. Wifey says pancratic cancer is a sugar cancer, and they're looking in the wrong place. My wife is smart, and I'd believe her research over these guys.
/johnny
MORE... in the study it was also found that if every day you eat more than six sausage or twelve strips of bacon, you have a 37% chance of exploding at your desk at work. Coworkers should be warned to wear eye protection...
Hot dogs have sodium nitrides. They cause cancer.
>> “BTW, ALL apples contain cyanide.” <<
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Utterly false!
The seeds of apples contain an alcaloid called Amygdalin that is sort of a chemical cousin to cyanide. That substance is the strongest cancer fighting chemical known to man. It also has been useful in dissolving cataracts in some people.
Pancreatic cancer is the 10th most common form of cancer, so if you’re even thinking about giving up bacon or sausage, you’ll want to give up all the other things that could give you the other more common forms of cancer, first.
Then, again, if you get pancreatic cancer you probably won’t know you have it until you are terminal, as it is the fourth deadliest form of cancer.
This means that the best bet is *not* to cut out the bacon or sausage, but look forward to the day when medicine can cure advanced pancreatic cancer.
Which is just plain a better way to live, instead of making yourself miserable hoping to avoid possibilities.
The FDA changed the curing procedures of wet cured so that bacon does not form nitrosamines even when stupidly way overcooked.
Back in 1978.
This is what the liberal press does.. They put the initial story out there, and never tell the rest of the story. And good people remain duped for decades.
/johnny
Eating an extra few strips of bacon if better than living under the present government....
Neither was Jobs,Michael Landon, Ruth Ginsburg
/johnny
Life: sexually transmitted, and terminal.
Does it increase with every one strip of bacon? Every half strip of bacon? Sounds like research done by a follower of Mohammed.
this is not new news. nitrites have been a known carcinogen since at least the 1970’s.
the question is, why is it there?
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