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The World Health Organisation is to list processed meat among the most cancer-causing substances, alongside arsenic and asbestos. Fresh red meat is also due to join the 'encyclopaedia of carcinogens' and is likely to be ranked as only slightly less dangerous than the preserved products.
The rulings, revealed to the Mail by a well-placed source, will send shock waves through the farming industry and the fast food sector. They could also lead to new dietary guidelines and warning labels on packs of bacon. The classifications, by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, come amid mounting concern that meat fuels the disease which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK.
[Also Covered By]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/23/who_bacon_shocker/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:36AM
if you cook meat hot enough that it turns black, more or less what you've done it taken millions, maybe billions of different chemicals, ripped them all apart and put them back together in totally random ways. No surprise there would be carcinogens.
A friend of mine told me that the Japanese get stomach cancer far more than do Americans, is that true? He said it was from the popularity of grilled meat.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:54AM
Another idea about stomach cancer in Japan is that it may be caused by tannins present in tea. "Several places in the world, as in Japan, a correlation has been found between the rate of occurrence of cancer in the stomach and the intake of some teas that are very rich in tannins," write the authors of Biopolymer Chemistry.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qDWZiFcbS0EC&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Geotti on Sunday October 25 2015, @02:13AM
And here I was wanting to suggest ditching coffee in favor of tea...
However, let's be clear that according to [1], "Daily consumption of black tea (but not green tea) has been associated with a significant reduction in death from all cancers." and.. oh fuck it, just read it here [wikipedia.org]
Question: is the overall cancer rate in Japan lower on average than in other parts of the world and only stomach cancer is higher as what's left? Because this doesn't add up, one source says "drugs^W teas are bad mm'key?" while the other declares the opposite.
[1] http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9915773&fileId=S0007114515002329 [cambridge.org]
[2] read it yourself at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea#Cancer [wikipedia.org]
PS: What happened to my <strike> tag?
PPS: sencha++
(Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Sunday October 25 2015, @03:04AM
And here I was wanting to suggest ditching coffee in favor of tea...
Take it with milk/cream as many brits do. The difference between those who get cancer from tea drinking and those that don't is the milk.
I know this to be true because I read it on Slashdot many years ago. ;-)
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday October 26 2015, @03:16AM
Really, sencha with milk? Here it is again the world's famous British cuisine...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 26 2015, @05:07AM
I've heard it goes great with boiled meat.
Hmmm, I wonder if the boiled meat poses a cancer risk like fried meat?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 25 2015, @04:27AM
Nah, it can't be the green tea what's responsible, it's gotta be the natto (納豆) [wikipedia.org].
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday October 26 2015, @03:25AM
After reading about natto, you got me convinced, but to be sure, I'll be preferring kōcha-kinoko (紅茶キノコ) [wikipedia.org] from now on.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday October 25 2015, @12:27PM
Another idea about stomach cancer in Japan is that it may be caused by tannins present in tea.
Strange soy products get a lot of love too.
Their attitude toward seafood in a post industrial world probably doesn't help. If it comes out of the sea and can be digested, they eat it, although stuff that comes out of the sea bio concentrates mercury compounds from coal burning and all kinds of weird stuff. So if there's so much mercury in tuna that you could practically make thermometers with its blood (slight exaggeration) then things aren't going to turn out well.