Processed Meats and Disease

I am a dedicated vegetarian who has never once craved meat in over 35 years. I feel everyone has to listen to their body and perhaps some people do need some meat to survive; especially when living msustainably from their environment.

In August 2006 a University in Sweden published a ’meta-analysis’ in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, collating 15 studies covering 4,704 subjects during the period 1966 to 2006. They found the risk of developing stomach cancer increases by between 15% and 38% when consumption of processed meat products increases by just a half-portion per day.

Results of a study by the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the University of Southern California reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2005;97:1458-65) of 190,000 people, ages 45 to 75, for seven years state that those who ate the most processed meat (bacon, ham, cold cuts) had a 68% higher risk of pancreatic cancer than those who ate the least. “Most” was defined as at least 0.6 ounce processed meat, one ounce beef or 0.3 ounce pork per 1,000 calories consumed.

Read more:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/16361276/#ixzz0rjS2Z75d

tp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8688104.stm

http://www.naturalnews.com/028824_processed_meat_heart_disease.html

Higher Risk of Heart Disease, Diabetes from eating Processed Meats

Meat Consumption Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

American Diabetes Association