Thread: Stand up for steak

As Nanna said, everything in moderation


Don

Originally Posted by PhilipA

There is also a genetic disposition in some people to get colon cancer, so I wonder if that was considered.

If your father had Colon cancer you have a 50% chance of getting it, according to Dr Google.

I knew a bloke when I worked in Austrade who had colonoscopies every year to try and get it early, as his father had died from it.

Regards Philip A

Agree 100%. I had bowel cancer in 2004. I'm still here.........obviously. I think genetic disposition has got a LOT to do with it as I had two uncles on my mothers side, die from bowel cancer.

This latest carry on about meat causing bowel cancer is nothing new as they were talking about it back in 2004 and the doctors then, asked me about my meat consumption.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I think just eat real natural food, not packet stuff as much as possible, and you will be a long way ahead.

A phrase often quoted to people here is when you go to the Supermarket (if thats your primary supply), is to only 'shop around the edges'...

Around the edges is usually the Fruit and Veg, Butchers etc...

All the processed crap usually resides down the isles in the middle...

Don't panic, next week findings will reveal red meat to be a super food, able to cure all maladies.

Last time I was in a supermarket I was thinking you could bomb about half the rows and you would actually be doing people a favour.

Don't forget that eating meat from animals which eat grass is also ruining the planet by making us "horse and cart" too much which is destroying the atmosphere creating climate change, droughts, floods, seas to rise, ice to thaw and people to go mad.
Who would have thought it.....

PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals. and loving it.
AlanH.

They mentioned processed meat like Bacon and salamis etc, so does that mean the processed food from places like Maccas is safer to eat? as they didn't mention that processed stuff.

New month Bear gets the lick in the shins, Beer causes cancer. Australia has the highest rate of Beer related cancers.

I suspect that some people here are guilty of the same thing as the media.

The WHO reports, probably quite accurately, that simply eating 50 grams of processed meat each day -- the equivalent of two slices of ham -- can increase the risk of such cancer by 18%.

The WHO tries to put that in context by adding that the risks are relatively small to begin with.

They go further and explain that according to estimates cited by the WHO, about 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide can be attributed to diets that are high in processed meat. That's a small fraction of the 8.2 million deaths caused by cancer in 2012, according to the latest WHO data.

So the WHO report is quite accurately saying that there is evidence that the very low risk of getting cancer from eating processed meat will increase very slightly.

The media and consequently some of the public are carrying on as if the WHO has said that if you eat meat you will get cancer and drop dead tomorrow.

That is not what the report says.

Don't attack the WHO for the crimes of the media.