Well, we all knew bacon wasn’t exactly good for us, but now it seems some researchers in Sweden have linked it to pancreatic cancer. Bacon, sausage and other processed meats can increase the risk of cancer by 19% if they are eaten every day. I don’t know about you, but about the only time I really dig in to the bacon is occasionally on the weekend, and the rest of the week it’s fruit and oatmeal. The researchers also acknowledged that the link may be due to obesity, which if you are pounding back extra helpings of the best tasting thing on earth (sorry, vegans, but I LOVE BACON) is just going to happen naturally.
While they don’t say that switching it up to chicken or turkey bacon will help, I have to say I’m a huge fan of the turkey bacon. While it is still processed, it is much leaner-tasting than it’s porky cousin and fabulous in a quiche. Turkey sausages are equally nomilicious to those of the omnivorous persuasion.
Tags: bacon cancer, processed meats cancer, sausage cancer
Comments (2)
This study is weak! The funny thing about this is they don’t mention what they are eating WITH the bacon and sausage. If they are downing 12 oz of orange juice at the same time, they taking in almost 1000 extra grams of carbs from SUGAR every month. It doesn’t have to be just orange juice, how about biscuits or toast? The carbs are converted to sugar by the body, thus raising insulin levels drastically. Oh wait a second, the pancreas produces insulin…. hmmmm… 1 +1 must = 5 in Sweden…
Frankly, I thought so a bit myself. The specific study was for an extra 50g of processed meats like bacon and sausage (although this wasn’t specified) on top of “the usual”. The variable is, as you point out, what “the usual” is. Anything could account for the extra obesity risk beyond the processed meats. Still interesting to have some proof that fatty breakfasts are bad for you, although to most this is stating the obvious.