Processed meats and cancer - will you be giving them up?

dandy-candy

How does everyone feel about the link between processed meats and cancer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34620617

Will you be changing your eating habits?

[Deleted User]

Certainly not, I'll just wait for the usual thing to happen and look forward to reading in the newspaper next week that you'll die if you don't eat processed meats!!!

ragz_2

We make our own bacon and sausages (from locally reared free range pigs), but I wouldn't give them up anyway. Something like 50% of us will get cancer at some point... can't give up everything fun. Plenty of other lifestyle changes need to be made to reduce cancer risk, like losing weight and eating less sugar... I'd love to manage those two but I am definitely not giving up my meats!

Farway

Of course not, Bacon / ham been has been eaten for centuries, I do try and avoid the modern processed foods, like burgers, reformed ham, chicken etc

MrsLurcherwalker has summed it up nicely

Butterfly_Brain

No way will I give up bacon and sausages. I am sick of these health Nazis telling us this is bad this is not bad, only to change their minds a few years down the line

Pollycat

dandy-candy wrote: »

How does everyone feel about the link between processed meats and cancer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34620617

Will you be changing your eating habits?

No, I won't be changing my eating habits.

I'll be doing what I normally do:
everything in moderation - including moderation.

How many times over the years have we been told x food or y drink is bad for us.
Then, years down the line, there's a U-turn.

Pollycat

ragz wrote: »

We make our own bacon and sausages (from locally reared free range pigs), but I wouldn't give them up anyway. Something like 50% of us will get cancer at some point... can't give up everything fun. Plenty of other lifestyle changes need to be made to reduce cancer risk, like losing weight and eating less sugar... I'd love to manage those two but I am definitely not giving up my meats!

Ooooh!
Lucky, lucky you.

LameWolf

I don't eat meat anyway, so this particular one doesn't make any odds to me.

But I absolutely refuse to let the Health Police dictate what I can and cannot eat.

We seem to get a new food health scare or new set of "recommendations" every other week, and I'm afraid I take not a blind bit of notice of any of them.

SailorSam

I don't eat enough of them to feel i'm in danger. I enjoy a bacon butty and i'll make a sausage casserole but i probably eat a lot more fish & lentils than i do red meat.

miss_emmajane

I have a vegetarian diet and OH only has meat 1/2 times a week normally so we don't consume a lot of processed meats - we budget to make the meat that he does eat free range/outdoor bred and organic, I happily buy basic/scrimp in other areas but meat and dairy I am very aware and conscious of my choices.

The health information delivered in the media is so confusing, I do my own research and follow that.

DundeeDoll

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2909046/How-oxygen-air-trigger-lung-cancer-Rates-disease-decrease-higher-altitudes.html

I'll not be giving up oxygen either!