Bacon and sausages. We are all DOOMED

[Lord Bracknell]

I'm sure a heart attack will kill you first.

Always a good plan, if you want to avoid the lingering ailments of old age.

 

[Gritt23]

Fancy a Swedish research team coming up with a health risk association for Denmarks top export. Tch, it's as if they don't like each other.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Lard is good for you, FACT ...

Lard: After decades of trying, its moment is finally here. - Slate Magazine

 

[Grendel]

19% increase risk. the relativly liklihood of this cancer is bugger all. 19% incease of bugger all, is still bugger all.

Exactly, but saying that it increases your risk by 19% makes a far better story than saying that it increases your risk from 0.012 in 1 to 0.015 in 1.

 

[Brovion]

Lard is good for you, FACT ...

Lard: After decades of trying, its moment is finally here. - Slate Magazine

Most people posting on this thread haven't got a clue, but it looks like even I was wrong, lard sandwiches ARE good for you!

 

[Curious Orange]

Nope, BBC news website today. Some scandanavian medical research. I would forward the link but I'm too busy finishing off my friday bacon butty

The Swedes? I wouldn't trust anything they'd researched - after all its their fault we're all driving around in cars that are too big on the outside, too small on the inside, and have lights on in the middle of the day!

 

[Randsta]

I would say that a sausage a day wont kill you

 

[Acker79]

Bet the Mail runs it.

You are so cynical...

Pancreatic cancer warning: Processed meat every day raises risk | Mail Online

 

[Shoreham Beach Seagull]

I had pancretitis 2 weeks ago, does that mean I have a higher chance? I'm doomed

 

[Drumstick]

Was this "evidence" reported in the Daily Mail by any chance?

 

[Mtoto]

One point that the Today programme reported this morning which the Mail did not is that obesity has previously been shown to cause a more significant increase in the occurrence of what is, even then, a very rare cancer. This report effectively treats "obesity" and "eating more than 50g of processed meat a day" as completely separate things, which is ridiculous.

This study, as I understand it, looked at more than 6,000 people who already had pancreatic cancer. Therefore a significantly higher number of them will have been obese in the first place than would be the case in the general, "healthy" population, and if you're obese, it's a fair bet that you eat more of all sorts of things than someone who isn't. There were probably any number of things that they could have zeroed in on. The cynic in me can't help thinking that meat gets more headlines and so helps to guarantee their funding.

 

[DavePage]

I would say that a sausage a day wont kill you

That’s what Freddie Mercury said

 

[Randsta]

That’s what Freddie Mercury said

U need to wrap your sausage of course ..... In Bacon its the safest way!

 

[00snook]

You are so cynical...

Pancreatic cancer warning: Processed meat every day raises risk | Mail Online

Never lets me down the good old trusty Mail.

No doubt my Dad will be ringing me this weekend to inform me of this latest health development.

I wonder if the press will publish the whole study, along with peer reviews of the science contained within, supporting evidence, sample size and a meta-analysis of other similar research.

I won't wonder that for too long tho

 

[APACHE]

It's not what you eat, it's how much and what you do afterwards.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

19% increase risk. the relativly liklihood of this cancer is bugger all. 19% incease of bugger all, is still bugger all.

the salt and fat will get you first.

Pancreatic cancer is the 5th most common cancer death. Patrick Swayze must have been very unlucky I guess.

 

[ArcticBlue]

I always heed the American saying "Consider the source", of course people have vested interests, but all the "wine is good for you" I believe has recently been debunked. Doesn't matter to me either way, I don't really drink anything any more - having done about 5 years of at least a bottle of red every night. Far too simplistic to claim that French drinking wine is responsible for a healthier life (even if that's true), they tend to eat better, fresher food anyway - just look at their markets.

Agreed. As I said everything in moderation...

 

[beorhthelm]

Pancreatic cancer is the 5th most common cancer death. Patrick Swayze must have been very unlucky I guess.

yes, very unlucky indeed. suffering from cancer is unlucky in the first place, 500 in 100000 diagnosed in the UK a year, 2.5% of those are the pancreas, though apparently a very high death rate.

 

[raymondbriggs]

Any survey on the risk of a Saturday diet consisting mainly of Piglets Pantry pies and 6 pints of Harveys?

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

it's all bollocks.

signed

The British Meat Board