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Eating processed meats like hot dogs, sausages or bacon can lead to bowel cancer in humans and red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said.
Some studies suggest that cutting processed meat intake by 30% (or 9 grams daily) could prevent thousands of cases of type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease each year.
If you have certain health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, you may want to limit your intake even more, given bacon’s saturated fat and sodium content.
On October 26, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization reported that eating processed meat (e.g., bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausages) or red meat was linked to some cancers and classed them as Group 1 (carcinogenic to humans) and Group 2a (probably carcinogenic to humans) carcinogens respectively. [49]
Advertisement for a healthy diet to possibly reduce cancer risk. An average 35% of human cancer mortality is attributed to the diet of the individual. [9] Studies have linked excessive consumption of red or processed meat to an increased risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer, a phenomenon which could be due to the presence of carcinogens in meats cooked at high temperatures.
Foods that have been processed heavily tend to contain more sugar and fat. This method usually increases the “taste” of those foods. As a result of the processing, the calorie level in those foods tends to spike. Monitoring the size and how many portions you are consuming each day of the processed foods tends to help reduce the risk of cancer.
Bacon “The No. 1 thing that I would avoid is bacon,” Freeman says. ... In addition to being a processed red meat and the cancer risk, there’s also obviously heart disease risk with it. So as ...
Numerous studies over the last few years have linked red meat to serious health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and several forms of cancer, including breast, lung and colon.