Bringing home the bacon.

[gbb]

On totals, a figure of 5400 UK deaths per year came up via AI, from eating cured meats.
I am unsure of the exact accuracy but considering 170,000 per year die that would make cured meats responsible for 3% of that total.
I am sure more people eat cured meat that cycle but it appears to need a ratio of about 54 times as many to level that mortality danger.

I was in Fleetwood this week so a Glasson Dock got a few ride visits.
I had a fantastic bacon and egg bap from Glasson Deli. That deli is cheaper and better than the motor bikers food stall/kiosk.
For me, bacon is now an occasional ride treat.

And does that statistic include people choking on a piece of bacon or ham ?
Sounds stupid but...
I read somewhere, perhaps here that consumption of bacon from supermarkets has fallen X percent...no surprise, perhaps people have got fed up of their food being messed around with.
I know I eat far less bacon than I used to , partly the additives, partly because the processes theyre using are spoiling the eating experience.

 

[albion]

Or ham acting ?

 

[Punkawallah]

Me.

I’ll eat yours - happy to ‘take one for the team’.

 

[Punkawallah]

On totals, a figure of 5400 UK deaths per year came up via AI, from eating cured meats.
I am unsure of the exact accuracy but considering 170,000 per year die that would make cured meats responsible for 3% of that total.
I am sure more people eat cured meat that cycle but it appears to need a ratio of about 54 times as many to level that mortality danger.

You’d have to find the amount of bacon eaten annually and the number of deaths from eating cured meats, (after eliminating those who died after being brained by a ham etc) and find a figure for ‘number of deaths per pound of bacon eaten’. Then you could see how it compares with other foodstuffs.

 

[albion]

Why? The 5400 deaths were from cured meats, bacon simpky being used zs the catchall phrase for them all.
Over 3% of cancer deaths are calculated to come from cured meats.

It just happens that bacon is more dangerous than ham sausage etc, all being class 1 cancer risk.

 

[classic33]

Death by bacon

Although many years ago now, I'd a cousin needing medical treatment due to bacon.

Half a pig that was hanging in the slaughter yard fell on him, as we ran through the meat hanging on rails.

 

[albion]

"Relative risk, however, is inherently a comparison. If, as the IARC analysis contends, eating 50g (1.7oz) more of processed meat results in an 18 percent increase in risk, the authors mean 18 percent of the risk we already have—which is much smaller than 18 percent itself."

Choking stuff ?
Interestingly it puts the US at over 5% getting colorectal cancer. So is that 'the curse of them being a 'big Mac' society?
'The Guardian and Buzzfeed both provided the same beautiful graphic from Cancer Research UK showing the numbers of cancers that could be prevented in the U.K. by eliminating smoking and by eliminating all processed meat. Smoking cessation would result in a whopping 64,500 fewer cancer cases per year—more than seven times as many as the expected reduction of 8,800 fewer cases if there were no processed meats in the UK diet.'

Easier to see why smoking is near dead.

 

[Punkawallah]

Why? The 5400 deaths were from cured meats, bacon simpky being used zs the catchall phrase for them all.
Over 3% of cancer deaths are calculated to come from cured meats.

It just happens that bacon is more dangerous than ham sausage etc, all being class 1 cancer risk.

For the same reason as danger to road users is expressed per million miles travelled.