Say It Ain't So!: Bacon May Increase Cancer Risk 20%

_binary_jester_
_binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
edited October 7 in Chit-Chat
http://www.geekologie.com/2012/01/say-it-aint-so-bacon-may-increase-cancer.php
In what I'm really hoping is some sort of sick Friday the 13th joke, a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer suggests that regular bacon consumption significantly increases the risk of pancreatic cancer. Wow cancer, really? Could you be a bigger ****head?

Eating 50g of processed meat every day - the equivalent to one sausage or two rashers of bacon - increases the risk by 19%, compared to people who do not eat processed meat at all. For people consuming double this amount of processed meat (100g), the increased risk jumps to 38%, and is 57% for those eating 150g a day. But experts cautioned that the overall risk of pancreatic cancer was relatively low - in the UK, the lifetime risk of developing the disease is one in 77 for men and one in 79 for women.

No clue how they came up with those numbers, but my guess is a lot of rats were put to death happy. "Did you even read the article, GW? They just studied people's diets and cancer development." Oh. Still, are you thinking what I'm thinking? "Fear monger with the hopes they put bacon on sale at the supermarket?" Exaaaaaaactly. Operation Bargain Bacon begins...NOW. Bacon linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer, says report [guardian] and Bacon Photo [laine'srecipebox] Thanks to cos5000, who agrees everything that's fun in life will eventually kill you. God, tell me about it. You know how many times I've almost been eaten by a dinosaur post-coitus?


My only thought was 20%? Bacon is worth the risk.
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  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    So dont eat processed meat?
    Okay!

    I like bacon!
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    OPERATION BARGAIN BACON!!! I'm so in...

    And I'm terribly sorry about the post-coitus Dinosaur attacks. That's gotta suck.
  • MissO﹠A
    MissO﹠A Posts: 906 Member
    Bring it on. *munches on a bacon butty*
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    <----eating bacon while doing lines of sweet n low
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    <----eating bacon while doing lines of sweet n low

    *LMAO*
  • sassylilmama
    sassylilmama Posts: 1,493 Member
    We need to promote this story so that people will boycott bacon. Then us true bacon lovers will have it all to oursleves, hopefully at a lower price because they just wanna sell it any way they can.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Something is going to kill me, might as well be bacon.

    mmm

    bacon

    demotivational-posters-you-cant-buy-happiness1.jpg
  • jamk1446
    jamk1446 Posts: 5,577 Member
    Something is going to kill me, might as well be bacon.

    mmm

    bacon

    demotivational-posters-you-cant-buy-happiness1.jpg

    Even better, that looks like candied bacon.
  • sarahsmom1
    sarahsmom1 Posts: 1,501 Member
    Probably for this study, then the next study will say it prevents cancer This is the video for Bacon very funny

    http://youtu.be/UKBJ19hPL4k
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    Woooooorth it. Mmmmm Bacon
  • JustGresh
    JustGresh Posts: 42
    Everything causes cancer. I'm totally going to continue my bacon consumption! Definitely worth the risk. If I'm gonna die at least I'll be happy.
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    We need to promote this story so that people will boycott bacon. Then us true bacon lovers will have it all to oursleves, hopefully at a lower price because they just wanna sell it any way they can.
    This is brilliant.
  • rmsrws
    rmsrws Posts: 639 Member
    My grandma is 89 years old. Has no known health problems. Every day for breakfast she has one fried egg with about 4-6 pieces of bacon!!!
  • aqua_zumba_fan
    aqua_zumba_fan Posts: 383 Member
    Glad I'm a veggie ;) Veggie bacon for me!
  • lacotto
    lacotto Posts: 13 Member
    I will not be separated from my meat candy. And turkey bacon? That's like making Easy Mac rather than Macaroni and Cheese from scratch. It's a lie.
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    My grandma is 89 years old. Has no known health problems. Every day for breakfast she has one fried egg with about 4-6 pieces of bacon!!!
    Anecdotal evidence will not be accepted. You grandmother is a freak of nature which falls outside the test parameters.
  • sarahsmom1
    sarahsmom1 Posts: 1,501 Member
    This little boy WANTS HIS BACON ITS GOOD FOR ME
    http://youtu.be/UKBJ19hPL4k
  • TheVulcanLover
    TheVulcanLover Posts: 36 Member
    I have not eaten bacon in years. I do not miss it now. IN fact, the other night I made spinach pie for dinner and made bacon for the hubby and kids who love it--and the smell made me want to vomit. It really is nasty "meat"
  • Erindipitous
    Erindipitous Posts: 1,234 Member
    Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon.....


    I don't think I've met anyone (minus vegetarians) who did not like bacon.


    You can't argue: It just makes everything better.
  • TheVulcanLover
    TheVulcanLover Posts: 36 Member
    My grandma is 89 years old. Has no known health problems. Every day for breakfast she has one fried egg with about 4-6 pieces of bacon!!!
    Anecdotal evidence will not be accepted. You grandmother is a freak of nature which falls outside the test parameters.
    Lots of people can offer up anecdotal evidence to things, but I always have to take that with a grain of salt.
    There are people who smoke who do not get cancer, but many smokers do--that does not mean that smoking DOESN'T cause cancer, it means that it doesn't cause cancer in ALL users. There are heroin addicts who have had healthy babies with no problems, but that doesn't make doing heroine while pregnant a healthy thing. Same with things like "bacon increases cancer risk". Bottom line--it's NOT healthy--it's up to the user (in this case eater) to make the choice!
  • LeahFerri
    LeahFerri Posts: 186 Member
    Something that came to mind because of a conversation in my home about statistics the other day... 20% of a very small number is... a very small number.
    If your cancer risk is very low, eating bacon isn't going to increase it by very much. I feel like the things that make cancer risk truly significant don't affect the majority of the population.
  • TMLPatrick
    TMLPatrick Posts: 558 Member
    This study is kinda lame.... when they say 20% they mean instead of 1 out of 77 people getting pancreatic cancer.... 1.2 out of 77 people getting it. That's not as drastic as they're trying to make it out to be, and could have nothing to do with the addition of bacon to their diet. People who eat a lot of bacon are likely to partake in many other unhealthy behaviors that are just as likely to explain the discrepancy.
  • grassette
    grassette Posts: 976 Member
    What kills are the sodium nitrites in the bacon, and in all processed meats. The only thing you can say about pancreatic cancer is that you don't live long once you have it.

    Like your bacon? Get the food industry to accept that it is perishable. Stop the use of carcinogens to preserve meat.
  • CouleeRunner
    CouleeRunner Posts: 256 Member
    We need to promote this story so that people will boycott bacon. Then us true bacon lovers will have it all to oursleves, hopefully at a lower price because they just wanna sell it any way they can.

    I like how you think. I just poilshed off a couple of slices of the stuff and I am feeling good...
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    My grandma is 89 years old. Has no known health problems. Every day for breakfast she has one fried egg with about 4-6 pieces of bacon!!!
    Anecdotal evidence will not be accepted. You grandmother is a freak of nature which falls outside the test parameters.
    Lots of people can offer up anecdotal evidence to things, but I always have to take that with a grain of salt.
    There are people who smoke who do not get cancer, but many smokers do--that does not mean that smoking DOESN'T cause cancer, it means that it doesn't cause cancer in ALL users. There are heroin addicts who have had healthy babies with no problems, but that doesn't make doing heroine while pregnant a healthy thing. Same with things like "bacon increases cancer risk". Bottom line--it's NOT healthy--it's up to the user (in this case eater) to make the choice!
    This is why we need comic sans as the universally accepted font for sarcasm.
  • MegSommer
    MegSommer Posts: 522 Member
    Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon.....


    I don't think I've met anyone (minus vegetarians) who did not like bacon.


    You can't argue: It just makes everything better.

    lol, my father in law doesn't like it!! Freak!
  • juliapurpletoes
    juliapurpletoes Posts: 951 Member
    Bacons ready!!

    Only thng that causes cancer is too many grains and carbs.....:wink:
  • JingleMuffin
    JingleMuffin Posts: 543 Member
    Im veggie, dont even miss it to be honest. yall can have it :)
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Only thng that causes cancer is too many grains and carbs.....:wink:

    No.
  • khua0808
    khua0808 Posts: 95
    I love these studies that say certain foods increase cancer risk or this or that health risk by X amount %: it's so vague. They usually just say don't do this or that or you will increase cancer risk by 100%, 100% of what? It might be increasing cancer risk from 0.1% chance of you ever getting it to 0.2% in your life time. I'm sure bacon is then worth the risk.
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