I see that after the results of the worlds largest study by 'experts' which was conducted over ten years on what increases the risk of cancer they have concluded that bacon, pork sausages and other processed meats can significantly increase the risk of getting cancer. What a load of rubbish! If we were to take any notice of whats 'good' and whats 'bad' for us everyone would be dead by now from malnutrition.
I'd rather live until 70 eating and drinking what I like than live until 90 being miserable most of it.

I read that report as well, it was very vegetarianesque.
If only cancer was as selective and idealistic as a report.

The reporter on my local TV news went around the High Street asking people what they thought of the news that bacon was a health risk. He came across one lady who's 92 and eaten bacon her whole life. He was quite surprised.

After I read the stupid report this morning I felt inspired to make myself a large and delicious bacon sandwich.

Complete claptrap! Lets face it, never a week goes by without some report being published telling us what we shouldn't be eating and if we believed all of them we'd eat no food at all!

I'd be interested to know which parts of the report people think are flawed?

I'd be interested to know which parts of the report people think are flawed?It must have cost a fortune to conduct and if their results are "drink little to no alcohol, eat little to no red meat, don't eat pork, bacon or ham", then it's a massive waste of money because the public (as we're seeing on this board) are just going to laugh it off.

Steadily over about the last 50 years just about every food as been ruled out for one reason or another and a report like this, or should I say how the results of a report like this are relayed to the world, is going to make little to no impact as a result.

It's simply too much of a change for most people. This kind of thing needs to be introduced gradually, like the effects of smoking for instance. 50 years ago people would have reacted to a report into smoking like they have with this report into cancer.

The other downside is that reports such as these are regularly found to be inaccurate and there will most likely be a report which contradicts this.

Of course I'm just assuming that the results of the report are what I heard on the radio. Most likely it's been stripped of any logic and reported as bullet points which blur the truth.

We eat pretty much anything here, the only point that the discussion/report brought to my mind, is how much our preference goes to whole food.
Particularly in animal products, we prefer to know we are partaking from one single creature at a time, I find them all minced up together pretty ghastly in an ideal world, which seemed to be what the report was echoing, needs must though food is of course essential.
Anybody found a link yet?

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