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WHO: Hot dogs, red meat, bacon and other processed meats cause cancer

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Oct 26, 2015.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member


     
    Mr. Sunshine and HC like this.
  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    A lot of people are going to turn vegan over this. Supermarkets better be prepared for a shrimp shortage.
     
  3. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Sounds awfully ominous ... an 18% higher risk! ... until you noodle around with the numbers. The average risk of developing colorectal cancer in the U.S. is about 5%. Now I don't know how meat consumption patterns work, but let's assume a Pareto phenomenon ... 80% of the overall risk is being driven by the 20% who are excessively carnivorous. Stipulating that, becoming a Ron Swanson means you take your lifetime risk from 4.8263% to 5.695%.

    Even if you say the Ron Swanson types generate 90% of the overall risk, their overall risk of colorectal cancer is still only 5.7957% (and the Chris Trager types still run a 4.91116% risk).
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

  5. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

  6. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Also Class 1 carcinogens: Sunlight, Air.

    Here's the complete list and they can take bacon and Areca nuts, whatever the fuck those are, from my cold cancer riddled fingers. I also enjoyed the entry on Tamoxifen, as it causes cancer and also reduces the chances of cancer at the same time.

    International Agency for Research on Cancer
    Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans
    • Acetaldehyde (from consuming alcoholic beverages)
    • Acheson process, occupational exposure associated with
    • Acid mists, strong inorganic
    • Aflatoxins
    • Alcoholic beverages
    • Aluminum production
    • 4-Aminobiphenyl
    • Areca nut
    • Aristolochic acid (and plants containing it)
    • Arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds
    • Asbestos (all forms) and mineral substances (such as talc or vermiculite) that contain asbestos
    • Auramine production
    • Azathioprine
    • Benzene
    • Benzidine and dyes metabolized to benzidine
    • Benzo[a]pyrene
    • Beryllium and beryllium compounds
    • Betel quid, with or without tobacco
    • Bis(chloromethyl)ether and chloromethyl methyl ether (technical-grade)
    • Busulfan
    • 1,3-Butadiene
    • Cadmium and cadmium compounds
    • Chlorambucil
    • Chlornaphazine
    • Chromium (VI) compounds
    • Clonorchis sinensis (infection with), also known as the Chinese liver fluke
    • Coal, indoor emissions from household combustion
    • Coal gasification
    • Coal-tar distillation
    • Coal-tar pitch
    • Coke production
    • Cyclophosphamide
    • Cyclosporine
    • 1,2-Dichloropropane
    • Diethylstilbestrol
    • Engine exhaust, diesel
    • Epstein-Barr virus (infection with)
    • Erionite
    • Estrogen postmenopausal therapy
    • Estrogen-progestogen postmenopausal therapy (combined)
    • Estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (combined) (Note: There is also convincing evidence in humans that these agents confer a protective effect against cancer in the endometrium and ovary)
    • Ethanol in alcoholic beverages
    • Ethylene oxide
    • Etoposide
    • Etoposide in combination with cisplatin and bleomycin
    • Fission products, including strontium-90
    • Fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole
    • Formaldehyde
    • Haematite mining (underground)
    • Helicobacter pylori (infection with)
    • Hepatitis B virus (chronic infection with)
    • Hepatitis C virus (chronic infection with)
    • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) (infection with)
    • Human papilloma virus (HPV) types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 (infection with) (Note: The HPV types that have been classified as carcinogenic to humans can differ by an order of magnitude in risk for cervical cancer)
    • Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) (infection with)
    • Ionizing radiation (all types)
    • Iron and steel founding (workplace exposure)
    • Isopropyl alcohol manufacture using strong acids
    • Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) (infection with)
    • Leather dust
    • Magenta production
    • Melphalan
    • Methoxsalen (8-methoxypsoralen) plus ultraviolet A radiation, also known as PUVA
    • 4,4'-Methylenebis(chloroaniline) (MOCA)
    • Mineral oils, untreated or mildly treated
    • MOPP and other combined chemotherapy including alkylating agents
    • 2-Naphthylamine
    • Neutron radiation
    • Nickel compounds
    • N'-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN) and 4-(N-Nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)
    • Opisthorchis viverrini (infection with), also known as the Southeast Asian liver fluke
    • Outdoor air pollution and the particulate matter in it
    • Painter (workplace exposure as a)
    • 3,4,5,3',4'-Pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB-126)
    • 2,3,4,7,8-Pentachlorodibenzofuran
    • Phenacetin (and mixtures containing it)
    • Phosphorus-32, as phosphate
    • Plutonium
    • Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin-like, with a Toxicity Equivalency Factor according to WHO (PCBs 77, 81, 105, 114, 118, 123, 126, 156, 157, 167, 169, 189)
    • Radioiodines, including iodine-131
    • Radionuclides, alpha-particle-emitting, internally deposited (Note: Specific radionuclides for which there is sufficient evidence for carcinogenicity to humans are also listed individually as Group 1 agents)
    • Radionuclides, beta-particle-emitting, internally deposited (Note: Specific radionuclides for which there is sufficient evidence for carcinogenicity to humans are also listed individually as Group 1 agents)
    • Radium-224 and its decay products
    • Radium-226 and its decay products
    • Radium-228 and its decay products
    • Radon-222 and its decay products
    • Rubber manufacturing industry
    • Salted fish (Chinese-style)
    • Schistosoma haematobium (infection with)
    • Semustine (methyl-CCNU)
    • Shale oils
    • Silica dust, crystalline, in the form of quartz or cristobalite
    • Solar radiation
    • Soot (as found in workplace exposure of chimney sweeps)
    • Sulfur mustard
    • Tamoxifen (Note: There is also conclusive evidence that tamoxifen reduces the risk of contralateral breast cancer in breast cancer patients)
    • 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin
    • Thiotepa
    • Thorium-232 and its decay products
    • Tobacco, smokeless
    • Tobacco smoke, secondhand
    • Tobacco smoking
    • ortho-Toluidine
    • Treosulfan
    • Trichloroethylene
    • Ultraviolet (UV) radiation, including UVA, UVB, and UVC rays
    • Ultraviolet-emitting tanning devices
    • Vinyl chloride
    • Wood dust
    • X- and Gamma-radiation
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Noticeably absent: Aspartame.
     
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  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    And lotteries ...
     
  9. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    I'm trying to eat as many of them fat leathery bastards as I can to stop them farting and melting the damn polar ice caps!

    Make up your minds, health overlords.
     
  10. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    And guns.

    And bags of dicks.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Soggy, saggy, splitting, rancid, rotten, flaccid, flabby tubes of rotting animal flesh, languidly floating in a fetid bath of malodorous swill.
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Those hot dogs get a bad rap.

    And you also get Papa John's after the loss to USF or Syracuse or Tulsa or whoever it might be this time.
     
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