WHO to declare bacon and other processed meats carginogenic

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This article my hubby found sheds some light on it. Gotta eat a lot of bacon to up your cancer risk significantly. Besides, where is the hype over processed lunch meats, chips, white bread, and tons of other crap that is bad for us? I will continue to enjoy my bacon!! but not eat it at every meal...'cause i'm not an idiot. It's our choice what we eat and put in our bodies. You can't outlaw everything that is bad for someone...and we all have to die from something. These "studies" and articles arising therefrom are slanted to make them say what the person or organization behind it all wants ppl to hear. IMHO. This is a non issue for us at our house.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-b ... ot-really/

i better not dehydrate a rasher of bacon then shred it and smoke it in a bong then.

Sounds like a good idea.

i don't think it's in the WHO's interest for people to starve themselves.

i used to know a small group of people wherein the dominant member liked to smoke the communal bong through chocolate milk.
it was a horrid but bemusing spectacle, and i was astonished that someone would do that, let alone let the bong pass through multiple rounds without a change of milk.
the most astounding thing was that the dominant member drank the fouled chocolate milk from the bong (at his pleasure) with the idea that he would be both nourished well and also benefit from ingesting the THC residue that was dissolved in it.

it takes all kinds to make a world of different kinds.

Might this not be a case of the people in WHO coming out with a study just to justify their jobs? I have seen this in botany over the years, and it's all a load of hoo-hoo.

Back when I used to smoke weed, we would use orange juice for the flavor, but no one drank it. I would imagine that with all the tar in the chocolate milk, if he kept it up, he developed a nice case of stomach cancer.

very nice indeed

If you're talking about physical stress, then to be sure, tobacco use can put the body through a whole lot of stress.

No, actually I'm talking about mental stress. People were never meant to be packed together like rats in a cage, which is what cities do to them. This leads to stress.

the IARC list categorizes how strong the evidence is, not how carcinogenic something is.

The evidence is that eating 'processed meats' increases your chances of butt cancer from substantially less than 1% to still substantially less than 1%.

Unless you also get enough fiber in your diet. Then the risk is the same as if you didn't eat bacon.

Yeah. Plus, experiments on diets are always a bit dodgy, as control is difficult to maintain.

Always take stuff like this with a pinch of salt.

Besides, if you're and idiot and subsist on mostly on bacon, you're far more likely to die from heart disease before the cancer gets you.

While I agree that mental stress contributes to all sorts of maladies, including cancer, I think there's enough evidence to suggest that substances such as tobacco, asbestos, and maybe even certain foods are also contributors. And let's not forget the genetic part of the equation, though I suspect bad habits like smoking makes genetics destiny in such cases.

Oh........... yes everyone better begin to hoard as much black forest ham and sausage as the end is near for, what W.H.O. has said, Bacon and other processed meats are deadly...
Personally, there are many things in this world which are dangerous, in fact there are chemicals in most water supplies(of a drinkable nature) throughout north America though, no one really takes a good look at this argument as well, the Sun itself has the potential to cause cancer though, has this stopped people from being Mayan Sun worshipers and sitting in a beach chair for hours upon hours getting intensely toasted? Nope, not really.


Yes, there are some things as human we can try to limit but, to all out remove would be absurd.

Old news, there are old studies on red meat, processed meat and cancer.

This was from 2007:
http://www.naturalnews.com/021808_cance ... ntion.html

and this was from 2011:

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/the-t ... eat?page=1

It's all old news really, there are tons of studies about it, I don't understand the sudden hype.