Is bacon bad for your health?
Well the World Health Organization (WHO) has once again taken the joy out of the American diet. They made headlines recently for their proclamation about the health risks of eating meat. The Time headline is, The War on Delicious which is very appropriate when an organization wages war on the foods so many Americans eat. So what are the health risks with red meat, processed meats and what meats are they talking about? How much can you eat before you are at risk? As a person who enjoys a bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin with Canadian bacon, I did not take the news lightly that processed meats are bad for one’s health. Health Risks and Processed Meat WHO attributes about 34,000 cancer deaths each year to diets high in eating processed meats. For red meat, they attribute 50,000 deaths a year. But as Time points out, tobacco-related cancer is linked to 1 million deaths a year. How much raises your risk, ...