Processed Meats Cause Cancer & Diabetes

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Here is another post which most of the information was obtained from the documentary “What The Health”.  Again, if you have not seen it yet, please take the time.  Even if you did it in short 15 minute show times.  You will greatly benefit from the information and have a preview of the next several posts.

Processed meat causes cancer.  That’s lunch meats, sausages, bacon and prepared meats such as Chicken Nuggets, Rotisserie Chicken, Fast Food Hamburgers, Frozen Hamburgers, Frozen Pizzas (the meat toppings), Pizza Rolls, SPAM, Bacon (precooked), Frozen Dinners, Chicken Wings, Frozen Chicken Products, Corn Dogs, Breakfast Burritos, Fish Sticks, Hamburger Helper, Frozen Shrimp, Deep Fried Shrimp, Egg Rolls, Dumplings, Jerky, Canadian Style Bacon, Chicken Salad, Ham Salad, Prepared Beef Shorts, Seared Pork Shank, Canned Chicken Breast, Frozen Chicken Cordon Bleu, Frozen Chicken Stuffed Broccoli, Fish Patties, Baked Chicken, Meat Lasagna and other frozen meats containing preservatives.

Processed meats cause Diabetes.  Harvard researchers looked at nine prospective studies finding that just one serving of processed meat per day increased risk of developing diabetes by 51 percent.  The link between eating meat and developing diabetes became undeniable.

The World Health Organization has classified processed meat such as bacon and sausage as carcinogenic, directly involved in causing cancer in humans.  Processed meat is clearly linked to an increase in cancer. Hotdogs or, bacon could be just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.  The World Health Organization had looked at over 800 studies from ten different countries, finding a direct link to consuming processed meat and cancer.  Just one serving of deli meats daily increases your risks of colorectal cancer by 18%.  I had no idea that what we ate affected cancer rates.  But I never felt like I had eaten a lot of processed meats until I realized that processed meat includes hotdogs, bacon, sausage, salami, ham, pepperoni, cold cuts and deli slices, basically everything I grew up eating.  The World Health Organization classifies processed meat as a Group One carcinogen, the same group as cigarettes, asbestos and plutonium, and classifies red meat as a Group Two carcinogen.  Was this like I had essentially been smoking my entire childhood?  If processed meats are labeled the same as cigarettes, how is it even legal for kids to be eating this way?

I thought this was new information, but, many of these studies have been around for 50 years.  I couldn't believe I'd been eating processed meats virtually my entire life and feeding them to my kids.  Why was I just now finding out how dangerous they are?  Why hadn't I been hearing about it from the American Cancer Society, the largest cancer group in the nation?

The information is out there.  It has been on many talk shows, news shows and medical shows.  It was just not breaking news enough to where every network picked it up and talked it to death like it does on so many other useless topics...lol.  “An analysis of data from 10 studies estimated that every 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by about 18%”. Quote from World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/). 

Americans Will Eat a Record Amount of Meat in 2018 according to Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/have-a-meaty-new-year-americans-will-eat-record-amount-in-2018). Stop and think about this for a minute.  The average person consumes 222.2 pound of meat per year, that is 100788.225 grams divided by 365 days = 276.132123 grams.  So, that is the average person consumes 276 grams a day, so I am persuaded to believe that at least 50 grams or more is processed meat.  Probably most of the 276 grams is processed.  Look in your cart the next time you go shopping and pay attention to how much is processed.  We are greatly over eating!  US and Australia have the highest meat consumption with India and Bangladesh being the lowest.

We have been told this for many years.  This Aired October 2015 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/26/hot-dogs-bacon-and-other-processed-meats-cause-cancer-world-health-organization-declares/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d24c4e99ca8c

Do a google search and you will see many news stations and publications.  Some downplay this by saying you would have to eat one hot dog a day to be at risk.  What a play on words..lol.  No, you would have to be guilty of eating any processed meat on a daily basis which most of us do.  When you look at the list above, it is safe to say, you probably consume at least one of those every day.  Especially since we add bacon to just about everything we eat!

**Now, remember, some if not all is copied from the documentary in order to keep the information factual.