WHO Puts Processed Meat in Same Class of Carcinogen as Tobacco

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tumscalcium said:
Perhaps blue font may have been appropriate on my part. I'm not claiming some conspiracy.

However, those numbers don't indicate that I should be scared nor should I alter my current eating habits.
You do understand that's daily usage, right? Not bacon on the weekends will definitely give you cancer.
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Yeah, no, I totally understand what that means. Cigarette usage is something like a 1,700% increase. I'm not giving up processed meats or red meat.
 
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VOLatile said:
No. It's not a conspiracy. The data is there. Processed meats show a very strong correlation with colorectal cancer and red meats show a slightly weaker correlation. Processed meats are Group 1A carcinogen, meaning they do cause cancer, and red meat has been categorized as a Group 2A carcinogen, meaning they probably cause cancer. However, those are 18% and 17% increases, respectively. From 8% to 9.4%.
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It's the comparisons that make it a scare tactic....insinuating that eating red meat carries the SAME RISK for developing cancer as smoking cigarettes is stupid! (and this doesn't even begin to discuss absolute vs. relative risks)....

By the way--being exposed to too much sunshine (UV rays) has ALSO been demonstrated to significantly increase the risk for developing Melanoma.....but no one has ever stated that we must eliminate sunshine from our lives in order to protect ourselves from one of THE most deadly of all cancers....

There is another agenda working in the press to link red meat--cancer--smoking together.....
 
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MikeVol44 said:
It's the comparisons that make it a scare tactic....insinuating that eating red meat carries the SAME RISK for developing cancer as smoking cigarettes is stupid! (and this doesn't even begin to discuss absolute vs. relative risks)....

By the way--being exposed to too much sunshine (UV rays) has ALSO been demonstrated to significantly increase the risk for developing Melanoma.....but no one has ever stated that we must eliminate sunshine from our lives in order to protect ourselves from one of THE most deadly of all cancers....

There is another agenda working in the press to link red meat--cancer--smoking together.....
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Journalists are scientifically illiterate.
 
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#31
Damn, going to have to stop drinking with my bacon and eggs in the morning.
 
#33
#33
So you won't know if the vodka or the bacon gave you cancer but the bacon flavored vodka definitely gave it to you.
 
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