Ham, Sausages, Hotdog can cause cancer

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World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that processed meat can cause cancer, specifically colon and stomach cancer.

Examples of processed meats include bacon, hot dogs, ham, sausages, corned beef, beef jerky and canned meats - any meat transformed to improve its flavor or preserve it through techniques like salting, curing or smoking.

WHO went as far as putting processed meats in the same danger category as cigarettes.

A group of 22 scientists from the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France evaluated more than 800 studies from several continents about meat and cancer. Based on that evaluation, they classified processed meat as "cancerous to humans" and red meat as "probably cancarous."

Those are bold statements from WHO, and I kind of agree with those statements. Not only for process meat, but for red meat as whole.

To add more bad news to this scenarion, recently CosumerReports magazine test out ground beef (they bought samples cross the country) to see if any bacteria that could be a health risk to humans were present. All 458 pounds of beef tested positive for bacteria that "signified fecal contamination" — enterococcus and E. coli.

That is why I have almost eliminated meat in general (and chicken too) from my diet. Maybe I eat 2 to 4 ounce of meat a week, and mostly eat fish.

World Health Organization: Processed meat can cause cancer - CBS News

Link from CosumerReport:
Consumer Reports tests ground beef for bacteria, yields surprising results