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Processed Meats Linked to 74 Percent Higher Risk of Leukemia
By Mike Adams, January 29, 2009
New research published in the journal BMC Cancer reveals that children who eat processed meats like bacon, hot dogs and sausage are 74 percent more likely to develop leukemia than children who avoid such processed meats and eat more vegetables and tofu instead.
This study, carried out in part by Dr. David C. Christiani of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and it's just one of many research studies linking processed meats to leukemia, pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer.
What causes processed meats to promote cancer? Sodium nitrite, of course: It's a cancer-causing chemical intentionally added to processed meat products to make them turn red and appeal to the visual expectations of consumers. When eaten, sodium nitrite results in the formation of nitrosamines which are known carcinogenic chemicals.
The USDA and FDA have known about hit issue since at least the 1970's, but they have both refused to protect consumers by banning sodium nitrite from the food supply. So the chemical additive is still in all processed meat products sold in America today: Hot dogs, sausages, bacon, sandwich meats, ham, pepperoni and many more. It's also in deli meats like the ones sold at popular sandwich chain restaurants.
If you don't want cancer, don't eat processed meat! Fresh meat, of course, has no sodium nitrite in it, so if you're going to eat meat, choose fresh meat rather than processed meat.
Better yet, don't eat any meat at all!
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Processed Meats Linked to 74 Percent Higher Risk of Leukemia
From Reuters.com: Researchers found that among 515 Taiwanese children and teenagers with and without acute leukemia, those who ate cured meats and fish more than once a week had a 74 percent higher risk of leukemia than those who rarely ate these foods.... more
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- Re: Processed Meats Linked to 74 Per... mo123
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,345,981"Better yet don't eat meat at all" This is what I have been preaching forever. Meat stays in our colon for 3 days rotting and then it passes. So as it rots, we become toxic and diseased. Put a piece of hamburger on your counter and go off and leave it for three days and see how many maggots you have. Lord, who would want that.
The rule I read was never eat processed meat and red meat no more than your fist, once a week. If we know these things are so bad, why are we eating them once a week. DAA!!- Re: Processed Meats Linked to 74 Per... UserX
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,346,022Jut to add to that, Mol, I knew a vegan girl, who had a vegan 8 year old. Now she was very healthy not eating meat and so was he. What happens if he suddenly decides to eat bacon butties at the age of 15? Have you done the right thing, as those poisons will certainly do him a lot more damage than they would me at 15? I respect the ideas behind not eating meat, but what goes around comes around when you try to hide from all things bad for you. They are not going away, and just like accepting a certain amount of germs, bacteria and disease, a little of something bad, sets your body up for dealing with it. Just ask a raw foodist who sudenly tries to eat cooked food.
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This is a reply to # 1,345,981Interesting, not everything is black and white though, otherwise organic vegan raw foodists who avoid all chemicals would be the centenarions in this country. They are not. In the UK papers today was a story about two 96 year olds who each drank 2 litres of whisky a week.
Your quote "Better still dont eat any meat at all"
You see for most research there is counter research. I have read somewhere that Surveys have been carried out from the population of Seventh day evangelists and the Mormons. Both groups dont smoke and drink, and as you will know, one group doesnt eat meat. Cancer rates were similar. So would a little meat do any harm? A scientist once said Nothing is poison, everything is poison..Meaning its all a question of dose.
Maybe it is all about dossage. Staying away from everything bad might just let your body forget how to deal with them, whereas having a few bad things, keeps your body dealing with unwanted stuff..much like a muscle. Its an interesting article, but I am going to treat myself to the odd bacon butty, because I dont think depriving myself of one will make me live 1 day longer. I will just not eat it every day.
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