Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.
Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.
Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.
But everyone knows not to and therefore doesn’t go near asbestos. Almost anyone who eats meat eats bacon.
Maybe stop putting things in stuff that mean that they require this warning?
But what do I know…
Everyone knows bacon isn’t good for you, nitrates aside the un*saturated fats are horrendous for you.
If you’re eating bacon you’re already doing it knowing it’s bad for you.
We should save the prop65 warnings for things that actually need it. They’re already way oversaturated and have lost all meaning to the vast, vast majority of consumers.
Still not as bad as sugar, most essential fatty acids are saturated, while there is no such thing as an essential sugar, because we can make all the sugar we need from other types of food.
Bacon and eggs are not nearly as unhealthy as some have made them out to be, and it turns out sugar is a way more dangerous source for the most damaging form of cholesterol there is.
The reason bacon is bad and cancerous is mostly because it’s smoked, and people like to fry it hard. It has very little to do with saturated fat.
I’ve never understood this, it tastes far better nice and soft.
Yes it does, but many prefer crispy bacon.
Seatbelts have been a legal requirement for longer than I’ve been alive, and people can see why, but people get pulled over daily for not wearing one.
Why are saturated fats bad for you?
I actually had it backwards, unsaturated fats are horrendously bad.
Their molecular shape makes them more grabby than saturated fats.
This grabbyness makes them clog your arteries faster than saturated fats.
It has to do with the availability of hydrogen binding spots, unsaturated fats have room for more hydrogen bonds, saturated fats don’t.
Trans unsaturated fats are perhaps worse, but saturated fats are associated with arterial plaque and heart disease. Poly and mono unsaturated fats are healthier than saturated fats.