Adding @frongt@lemmy.zip's comment with some good context here:
each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%
And processed meat is defined as:
meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation. Most processed meats contain pork or beef, but processed meats may also contain other red meats, poultry, offal, or meat by-products such as blood. Examples of processed meat include hot dogs (frankfurters), ham, sausages, corned beef, and biltong or beef jerky as well as canned meat and meat-based preparations and sauces.
And if you want a visual for 50g of processed meat: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/five-meats-by-the-slice-see-how-little-50-grams-actually-is-1.3289822
So that’s a reasonable amount for a regular meat-eating person to consume through meat dishes day to day.
Specifically:
And processed meat is defined as:
And if you want a visual for 50g of processed meat: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/five-meats-by-the-slice-see-how-little-50-grams-actually-is-1.3289822
So that's a reasonable amount for a regular meat-eating person to consume through meat dishes day to day.
Anyway, I'm off to eat a plant-based burger. It's more processed than ground beef, but probably healthier on the whole.
So I grew up on hot dogs. My grandparents fed me hot dogs pretty often. So if each 50 gram portion increases cancer risk by 18% my risk is at least 1000%.
I'm not going to pull up the PDF again, but it's probably annual risk.
I wonder how fast the risk changes with a change of diet. If I eat sandwiches and hot dogs one year and then veggies and beans the next does it drop to 0 in the second year?
No, you have a base risk from genetics and environmental factors. And a nonzero risk from those other foods. Processed meat is just 18% higher.
Gotta die somehow death by bacon.
Bacon is great, but death by rectal cancer is more bad than bacon is good.
Unfortunately it won't be from the bacon, it'll be from heart disease and colorectal cancer, both of which are terrible ways to go.
Listen, I used to think it was worthwhile to preserve your life and stay healthy so you could experience as much as possible. In this year I just want a short life filled with as much enjoyment as is still possible. The likely hood that I love long enough for those to get me are slim and in the event of a cancer diagnosis like that I’m taking a different path than treating it
Yeah this is good context to put, I'm going to copy that to the text body because I've definitely seen people mistakenly think they aren't eating processed meats when they are