UN Agency Links Hot Dogs and Other Processed Meat to Cancer
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Oct 26, 2015, 4:03:31 PM10/26/15
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UN Agency Links Hot Dogs and Other Processed Meat to Cancer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS
— Bacon, hot dogs and cold cuts are under fire: The World Health
Organization threw its global weight behind years of doctors' warnings
and declared Monday that processed meats raise the risk of colon and
stomach cancer and that red meat is probably dangerous, too.
Meat
producers are angry, vegetarians are feeling vindicated, and cancer
experts are welcoming the most comprehensive pronouncement yet on the
relation between our modern meat-eating lifestyles and cancer.
The
WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France,
analyzed decades of research and ended up putting processed meats in the
same danger category as smoking or asbestos for the first time. That
doesn't mean salami is as dangerous as cigarettes, only that there's a
confirmed link to cancer.
The
results aren't that shocking in the U.S., where many parents fret about
chemicals in cured meats and the American Cancer Society has long
cautioned against eating too much steak.
But
the U.N. agency's findings could shake up public health attitudes
elsewhere, such as European countries where sausages are savored and
smoked ham is a national delicacy.
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