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.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Specifically:

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.

Anyway, I'm off to eat a plant-based burger. It's more processed than ground beef, but probably healthier on the whole.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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%.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not going to pull up the PDF again, but it's probably annual risk.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Gotta die somehow death by bacon.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Bacon is great, but death by rectal cancer is more bad than bacon is good.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

How can they be aware when they are functionally illiterate and inumerate?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I get that this is more tongue and cheek, but for some perspective it's around ~21% of US adults that are functionally illiterate (in English) from 2024 stats

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

"in English" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Any number of illiterate adults is a problem worth solving, but someone who can read in their native language is not illiterate. Teaching adults to read is an entirely different process from teaching adults how to read a foreign langauge.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Flooded with misinformation and conflicting sources; in a constant struggle to barely survive, no escape, and information overload fatigue.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was watching who wants to be a millionaire and it was the celebrity version. I don't recall which celebrities were sitting in the chair but I recall the question and the answer.

The question was: supreme court justices all shake hands with each other before they have a session or something, so how many times are hands shaken total among all judges?

Really simple answer if you know your math(and how many justices there are), which they ultimately asked the audience and I kind of figured 'not a lot' are going to get it right, but over 70 percent did. I was surprised.

Maybe one of the celebrities was Helen Hunt? I'm not going to spoil the answer any further!

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Spoiler

8 Injustices + 1 Chief Injustice = 9 handshakers. Each handshaker shakes 8 people's excluding themselves, but you musn't count the same handshake twice for each person.

The first shakes 8 times and is done. The second shakes 7 times because the 8th was already included in the count of the first person....

8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=36

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you want to make the arithmetic faster for any number, (n+1)*n / 2 is the closed form expression for summing the (whole) numbers 1 to n

So (8+1)*8/2 = 36 in this case

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yes absolutely, but that is only faster when n is large enough to become unwieldy, or the pr9cess needs to be repeated for various numbers of shakers. When doing it in your head for a single low number question this is where I landed.