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5 Disturbing Facts Big Food Doesn't Want You to Know
By Martha Rosenberg
....Did you ever wonder why bacon, hot dogs, ham, cold cuts, Slim Jims and most processed and cured meats taste salty, look pink and stay on the shelves indefinitely? Because food processors use the preservatives nitrite and nitrate which produce the pink color, delay bacterial growth and rancid taste and smell and impart a cured or smoked meat flavor.
Researchers have known since the 1970s that the preservatives become "nitrosamines" in the bodycompounds that cause cancer. Following a 2008 American Institute for Cancer Research/World Cancer Research Fund report that found just one hot dog a day increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 21 percent, there were calls to ban such processed meat, especially in schools. Last year, the World Health Organization reignited the controversy and declared processed meats Group 1 carcinogens, the highest risk category that exists. WHO researchers, who analyzed 800 studies, defined processed meat as anything transformed to improve its flavor or preserve it, including sausages, beef jerky and anything smoked, reported the Boston Globe. Researchers identified links from processed meats to colon, prostate and pancreatic cancers.
Scientific articles also link nitrosamines to lung cancer, kidney cancer, stroke, coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus. The American Cancer Society tells people not to eat them. Still, the industry-influenced USDA remains agnostic about the dangers of nitrosamines in its new Dietary Guidelines rolled out this year. "We are pretty disappointed the report doesn't recommend limiting red and processed meat because of the link to cancer," said Katie McMahon of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network....
Researchers have known since the 1970s that the preservatives become "nitrosamines" in the bodycompounds that cause cancer. Following a 2008 American Institute for Cancer Research/World Cancer Research Fund report that found just one hot dog a day increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 21 percent, there were calls to ban such processed meat, especially in schools. Last year, the World Health Organization reignited the controversy and declared processed meats Group 1 carcinogens, the highest risk category that exists. WHO researchers, who analyzed 800 studies, defined processed meat as anything transformed to improve its flavor or preserve it, including sausages, beef jerky and anything smoked, reported the Boston Globe. Researchers identified links from processed meats to colon, prostate and pancreatic cancers.
Scientific articles also link nitrosamines to lung cancer, kidney cancer, stroke, coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus. The American Cancer Society tells people not to eat them. Still, the industry-influenced USDA remains agnostic about the dangers of nitrosamines in its new Dietary Guidelines rolled out this year. "We are pretty disappointed the report doesn't recommend limiting red and processed meat because of the link to cancer," said Katie McMahon of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network....
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5 Disturbing Facts Big Food Doesn't Want You to Know (Original Post)
Mr_Jefferson_24
Apr 2016
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oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)1. yep, soaked in salt and very bad for your heart
Archae
(46,328 posts)2. One not-so-disturbing fact about reality...
Eat right, exercise, die anyway.
BTW, according to this article posted, I should be dead now.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)3. Better check your pulse...
...just to be safe.