I am sure if you ate too much of any given food whether it bacon or beans, you would get some kind of cancer. If you live long enough, you will get cancer, the cells are already in everybody's body.
Not really. Studies certainly show that eating red meat increases the cancer risk, just like smoking increases the cancer risk. Some people beat the odds and live a long time even though they don't take care of themselves, and others die an early death, from cancer, and that is especially tragic for a mother or father with dependent children.
In this case, knowledge is power. For someone who lost a parent at an early age to pancreatic cancer the study showing a link between eating bacon and pancreatic cancer would be important information to know. Those who think they'll beat the odds because of their superior genes, or whatever, are free to pooh-pooh other people's concerns.
You don't understand what is happening when a tree produces apples or pears or plums. These fruits are not the 'children' of the tree. It's quite the opposite. The tree produces flowers which are pollinated by bees and grow into fruit. The fruit is then discarded by the tree - on purpose - so that the seeds in those fruits can be eaten by animals and later voided by the animal. The idea is that those seeds will grow into another tree.
If you want to lower your cancer risk, do a little research into diet, and you'll see that avoiding saturated fat is high on the list of foods not to eat. Various studies have shown that men who eat less animal fat and more monounsaturated (vegetable) fat have lower rates of prostate cancer.
Oils that contain omega 3, such as flaxseed, canola, sunflower, and virgin olive oil are good for you (although they shouldn't be subjected to high temperatures).
A high fibre diet (vegetables, fruits, legumes, and grains) protects against cancer.
Eating crucifoeous vegetables (cabbage family) can lower your cancer risk by 40%.
No way are carrots, apples, cucumbers, melons, walnuts, or almonds, to list just a few foods, ever going to give anybody cancer!
The bottom line is that the best way to lower your risk of developing cancer is to switch from an animal-based diet to a plant-based diet. This has been proven over and over again in studies done on vegetarians and Seventh Day Adventists.
Carrots do not cause cancer. In fact, falcarinol, a compound found in carrots, reduces cancer risk.
Nuts do not cause high cholesterol. They actually help prevent the absorption of cholesterol.
Who on earth really wants to be constantly on alert about what food they consume? Make reasonable choices and get on with it. One can be aware of one's choices without being on a constant crusade.
I see so little joy in life in your posts. For pete's sake I had a fun hour today with my young hairstylist. Your posts seem to indicate some terribly sad genes. Tonight I had the last of the beef-mushroom-barley soup I made sometime ago--froze half.I used one beef shinbone for about ten meals.
Think I'll buy some beef chuck tomorrow to make pot roast with carrotsand potates. Course I do keep some beef filet steaks in my freezer--yummy with baked potato and butter.Also keep some chicken and loin prk chopsin said freezer. I enjoy cooking even though I now live alone. Will probably give half the pot roast to my daughter. Our family diet over 7 decades included only occasional processed meat : something little favored by Irish/English/American upper middle class families--ya know the Irish linen crowd. ;)............................
My dad and grandfather were engineers, my kids all math wonks, but conversation and intellectual pursuits also reigned. Andmy oldest grandson is tearing it up on scholarship at MIT : taking skiing lessons for a mid-semester ski venture with classmates.
You don't understand what is happening when a tree produces apples or pears or plums. These fruits are not the 'children' of the tree. It's quite the opposite. The tree produces flowers which are pollinated by bees and grow into fruit. The fruit is then discarded by the tree - on purpose - so that the seeds in those fruits can be eaten by animals and later voided by the animal. The idea is that those seeds will grow into another tree.
If you want to lower your cancer risk, do a little research into diet, and you'll see that avoiding saturated fat is high on the list of foods not to eat. Various studies have shown that men who eat less animal fat and more monounsaturated (vegetable) fat have lower rates of prostate cancer.
Oils that contain omega 3, such as flaxseed, canola, sunflower, and virgin olive oil are good for you (although they shouldn't be subjected to high temperatures).
A high fibre diet (vegetables, fruits, legumes, and grains) protects against cancer.
Eating crucifoeous vegetables (cabbage family) can lower your cancer risk by 40%.
No way are carrots, apples, cucumbers, melons, walnuts, or almonds, to list just a few foods, ever going to give anybody cancer!
The bottom line is that the best way to lower your risk of developing cancer is to switch from an animal-based diet to a plant-based diet. This has been proven over and over again in studies done on vegetarians and Seventh Day Adventists.
Carrots do not cause cancer. In fact, falcarinol, a compound found in carrots, reduces cancer risk.
Nuts do not cause high cholesterol. They actually help prevent the absorption of cholesterol.
Grain, fruit and nuts ARE the reproductive mechanisms of plants, they are or contain the seeds of the plants, so we all suck.
Root plants are killed when harvested and so are cereal crops. Trees have their children taken away from them when we harvest fruits and nuts.
Agriculture is nasty business. It's herbicide!
I am sure if you ate too much of any given food whether it bacon or beans, you would get some kind of cancer. If you live long enough, you will get cancer, the cells are already in everybody's body.
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary. For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas
If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9
Plants die when we eat them too, something always must die so we can eat.
If you eat an apple, the apple tree doesn't die. If you eat a potato, the potato plant doesn't die. Unless you count the apple or the potato, which is a conduit, like the egg white and egg yolk in an egg, it is not true that something always must die so that humans can eat. But then that comes down to a matter of symantics, anyway. Is an apple alive? Do plants feel pain without even a hint of a nervous system? Depends on what a person believes, not what a person knows.
... the specious argument that 'everything has to die so that we can eat' ...
Not true anyway.
We can synthetically assemble glucose in the lab, for instance - nothing has to die for that if properly done. The same will be true for synthetic meat grown from cell cultures.
The whole idea of killing animals will be disconnected from eating meat soon. I wonder what vegans will do then - will be fun to watch...
I have seen pictures of that and read articles. Interesting and more than a little creepy.
I think people don't realize that alot of animals are killed in the growing of crops. I wonder if wild scavenging will take the place of vegan/vegetarianism. Where you eat no crop grown food and instead run around trying to get your nutrients from before considered unwanted weeds and roots. The stuff that just grows naturally.
There is a group of people that are a part of a society that advocates zero reproduction and want to get as many other people as possible to commit to never having any children so as to reduce the foot print of mankind. That right there is pretty serious
I have read of Human extinction societies,Erey. Funny that these people do not set a good example for their agenda.
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary. For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas
If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9
... the specious argument that 'everything has to die so that we can eat' ...
Not true anyway.
We can synthetically assemble glucose in the lab, for instance - nothing has to die for that if properly done. The same will be true for synthetic meat grown from cell cultures.
The whole idea of killing animals will be disconnected from eating meat soon. I wonder what vegans will do then - will be fun to watch...
I have seen pictures of that and read articles. Interesting and more than a little creepy.
I think people don't realize that alot of animals are killed in the growing of crops. I wonder if wild scavenging will take the place of vegan/vegetarianism. Where you eat no crop grown food and instead run around trying to get your nutrients from before considered unwanted weeds and roots. The stuff that just grows naturally.
There is a group of people that are a part of a society that advocates zero reproduction and want to get as many other people as possible to commit to never having any children so as to reduce the foot print of mankind. That right there is pretty serious
... the specious argument that 'everything has to die so that we can eat' ...
Not true anyway.
We can synthetically assemble glucose in the lab, for instance - nothing has to die for that if properly done. The same will be true for synthetic meat grown from cell cultures.
The whole idea of killing animals will be disconnected from eating meat soon. I wonder what vegans will do then - will be fun to watch...
“The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity” - Abraham Lincoln.
The problem with studies like this is that there is a difference between relative risk and absolute risk.
Come again? What is “the problem” with this meta-analysis by Larsson and Wolk?
Smokers have a higher rate, 2.5 times that of nonsmokers. Moral of the story: don't smoke. It's a bigger problem than bacon.
Each of the studies in the Larsson and Wolk meta-analysis "controlled for smoking". The authors further noted:
Given that the main route of human exposure to N-nitroso compounds is cigarette smoke, the relation between processed meat consumption and pancreatic cancer risk may be modified by smoking status.
Besides which, Dracula is a fictional character. People should eat pigs only in fiction as well.
Plants die when we eat them too, something always must die so we can eat. If you eat fruits, grains and nuts, you are eating plant genitalia
As for the bacon I have no religious qualms about eating bacon, ham and pork.
When I was in the Navy I had a jewish friend who loved ham and cheese sandwiches' when I questioned him why he was eating pork he said it was ok since he was educated in Catholic schools.
