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Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous for Human Consumption

by Mike Adams

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption. Consumers should stop buying and eating all processed meat products for the rest of their lives.

Processed meats include bacon, sausage, hot dogs, sandwich meat, packaged ham, pepperoni, salami and virtually all red meat used in frozen prepared meals. They are usually manufactured with a carcinogenic ingredient known as sodium nitrite. This is used as a color fixer by meat companies to turn packaged meats a bright red color so they look fresh. Unfortunately, sodium nitrite also results in the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines in the human body. And this leads to a sharp increase in cancer risk for those who eat them.

Sodium nitrite appears predominantly in red meat products (you won’t find it in chicken or fish products). Here’s a short list of food items to check carefully for sodium nitrite and monosodium glutamate (MSG), another dangerous additive:

Beef jerky, Bacon, Sausage, Hot dogs, Sandwich meat, Frozen pizza with meat, Canned soups with meat, Frozen meals with meat, Ravioli and meat pasta foods, Kid’s meals containing red meat, Sandwich meat used at popular restaurants, Nearly all red meats sold at public schools, restaurants, hospitals, hotels and theme parks…

(read more: Total Health)   (photo: Glane23)

More reasons to hate sandwiches.

The only things that really upsets me about this is bacon and pepperoni…though I’m willing to bet really high end pepperoni from Italy probably lacks the colour fixer. Bacon is extra upsetting, because despite relatives that hunt, wild hogs have too little fat to make good bacon from…

there are more and more types of bacon that are made without nitrites! look for “smoked” but “uncured” bacons. you tend to have to buy these in places where fresher meat is available, but many places will ship it frozen.

(Source: rhamphotheca, via angrybrownbaby)