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Red meat linked to cancer (again), this time lung

Posted on Dec 11th 2007 12:00PM by Adams Briscoe

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

Red meat has been taking a bad rap, because apparently headlines want you to think it's cancer on a grill. One of the first hits it took was being linked to breast cancer in women. Now researchers are saying red meat is linked to lung cancer. Will the flogging ever end?

This research was serious about doing business. Half a million people took part in it, ages ranging from 50 to 71. Eight years later, they counted the number of cancer cases diagnosed. It was over 50,000. The results say that those with the highest elevated risk were among the people consuming the most red meat. By the way, red meat was considered anything beef, pork or lamb, which includes bacon, sausage, cold cuts, ham and hot dogs. Just shoot me now.

I'm still going to stand by the golden rule of moderation. A steak every now and then probably won't kill you. Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that all this processed stuff isn't 100% healthy in the long-run. Okay, I'm taking off the tinfoil hat now to use my cell phone while eating a burger.

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richard day gore 12-11-2007 @ 12:13PM

Who knows, maybe red meat eaters also comprise more smokers, or people who live next to radiation, or watch too much tv, or wear plaid too often.

Adams 12-11-2007 @ 12:36PM

Richard, you could be on to something there! Plaid is the most devilish of patterns ;P

jeanruss 12-11-2007 @ 3:36PM

whenever I read these studies, they always scream at me what is SO OBVIOUS-it isn't the meat, it's what's IN the meat-Dr. Virginia Livingston proved 50 years ago that cancer was an infection, a LETHAL blood infection, that gets out of control because of a compromised immune system-since then, it has been proven time and again that various viruses, fungi, etc. cause cancer-these studies are just a smokescreen to protect the billions made from cancer drugs-in 1900, cancer was a rare disease-as our food has been compromised by agri-business and our world more polluted, cancer rates have sky-rocketed-it's more than time for the TRUTH about cancer.

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