Eating Bacon will KILL you!

SereneRose

This is the headlines in the UK today, eating processed meats can lead to an early grave.
Is anything safe anymore?

As a ketoer this and sausages are a staple part of my diet and honestly something is going to kill me anyway so why live in fear? I say eat up, enjoy and everything in moderation.

Now for brekkie

Chadomaniac

Being alive will eventually kill you to ... The media is such a joke

mmm bacon

ninerbuff

Bacon will only kill you is it's not dead and charges at you full steam ahead.

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2essie

The UK press has always got something to scare us with.

kbeech06

Everything in moderation! Saying this though, I far prefer bacon or sausages from our local farm shop up the road. I would also love to be able to make my own sausages to control what goes into it. Maybe someday I will be able to afford the equipment to be able to do it.

symonspatrick

If Bacon is wrong. I don't want to be right.

sijomial

Here's a link to the BBC coverage.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779

Summary....
Sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats appear to increase the risk of dying young, a study of half a million people across Europe suggests.

It concluded diets high in processed meats were linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer and early deaths.
The researchers, writing in the journal BMC Medicine, said salt and chemicals used to preserve the meat may damage health.
The British Heart Foundation suggested opting for leaner cuts of meat.
The study followed people from 10 European countries for nearly 13 years on average.

Lifestyle factors
It showed people who ate a lot of processed meat were also more likely to smoke, be obese and have other behaviours known to damage health.

However, the researchers said even after those risk factors were accounted for, processed meat still damaged health.

neandermagnon

Was it the Daily Mail?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

(the verse about cancer from (add item here) is pertinent to this thread)

Cr01502

None of this is news.

It's the same stuff they recycled 10 years ago.

I still say everything in moderation.

SereneRose

Here's a link to the BBC coverage.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779

Summary....
Sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats appear to increase the risk of dying young, a study of half a million people across Europe suggests.

It concluded diets high in processed meats were linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer and early deaths.
The researchers, writing in the journal BMC Medicine, said salt and chemicals used to preserve the meat may damage health.
The British Heart Foundation suggested opting for leaner cuts of meat.
The study followed people from 10 European countries for nearly 13 years on average.

Lifestyle factors
It showed people who ate a lot of processed meat were also more likely to smoke, be obese and have other behaviours known to damage health.

However, the researchers said even after those risk factors were accounted for, processed meat still damaged health.

So bacon is making me the way I am?
Funny here I was thinking it was helping me lose weight. . . The tape measure lied. :sad:

makaiya

whatever. imma still eat bacon. and none of that turkey bacon crap. real, honest to goodness bacon. om nom nom nom . . . buurrrpppp!

sijomial

Here's a link to the BBC coverage.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779

Summary....
Sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats appear to increase the risk of dying young, a study of half a million people across Europe suggests.

It concluded diets high in processed meats were linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer and early deaths.
The researchers, writing in the journal BMC Medicine, said salt and chemicals used to preserve the meat may damage health.
The British Heart Foundation suggested opting for leaner cuts of meat.
The study followed people from 10 European countries for nearly 13 years on average.

Lifestyle factors
It showed people who ate a lot of processed meat were also more likely to smoke, be obese and have other behaviours known to damage health.

However, the researchers said even after those risk factors were accounted for, processed meat still damaged health.

So bacon is making me the way I am?
Funny here I was thinking it was helping me lose weight. . . The tape measure lied. :sad:

Far be it for me to defend the British press.... They are reporting on the study not creating a story out of thin air. I offered no opinion just gave people the opportunity to read the story (and look at the study if they chose) rather than "eating bacon will kill you" - you don't work as a headline writer for the Daily Mail do you?

mudonthetires856

I think NOT eating bacon would be the reason for my demise.

Lulzaroonie

BAN WATER!!
Did you know, 100% of people who consume water die?

Fozzi43

Me luvs bacon..nom nom nom.

Kyrithys

If Bacon is wrong. I don't want to be right.

^^ SO this! :laugh:

clouxles

Thanks goodness I am Canadian and have the "Poutine" option. Although I have seem bacon laced poutine... (mmmmmmmm)

ItsCasey

A life without bacon is not worth living anyway. Long live delicious dead beast!

ItsCasey

On a more serious note, though, this is like doctors in the US who say people who eat red meat are at greater risk for heart-related illnesses than the general population ... what they don't tell you is that they are lumping in people who eat a Big Mac and fries twice a day and never get any exercise with people who eat steak once a week and work out regularly. Let's all try to use whatever common sense we have left to determine how our diet is affecting our health.

gpinzone

BAN WATER!!
Did you know, 100% of people who consume water die?

Well, at least it's not as bad as dihydrogen monoxide! that stuff is dangerous!

http://www.dhmo.org/

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

If you were eating like 5lbs of bacon a day every single day I'm sure you'd get pretty sick and possibly die but in moderate amounts I don't see a problem (well other than the fact the smell of bacon makes me want to puke, but that's just me).