Have you had your carcinogens today?

[raleighnut]

I think you need to eat meat in American size quantities before the WHO advice becomes valid.

 

[TVC]

Did you cut yourself peeling the spuds?

Bought mash, and the wife is cooking. The pink comes from tommy Ketchup. Luverly.

 

[Sara_H]

Smug vegetarian non drinker here. If I don't live to be 110 someone has some questions to answer!

 

[ColinJ]

Funnily enough some of the research that allegedly showed how eating lots of meat and other fatty foods was bad for your heart actually showed some concerns about higher cancer rates among those avoiding all the 'fatty' foods and using lots of vegetable based products (marg instead of butter, vegetable oil instead of lard and whatever).

The study that this new WHO advice is based on starts by introducing the flawed idea that red meat with it's saturated fat and cholesterol is bad for you, so I've no reason to believe the rest of it is any more accurate.

I started using butter when I would previously have used marge, and sometimes instead of olive oil,

I have also started treating myself to full fat cheese once a week to make a tasty change from cottage cheese.

 

[claudbutler]

Warm sick makes a tasty change from cottage cheese

 

[slowmotion]

I think I read that we should limit ourselves to 70g of meat a day. Is someone joking? A steak is three times that. Is the entire population of Argentina dead?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Bought mash, and the wife is cooking. The pink comes from tommy Ketchup. Luverly.

Prefer Salad Cream in mine ....

 

[User32269]

Packet of bacon for breakfast. Ham sandwiches for dinner at work. Getting ready to inject some corned beef now I'm home...more of a buzz
Load of bollox...sick of been told what to eat...

 

[Berk on a Bike]

To paraphrase someone or other: not eating bacon doesn't make you live longer, it just feels longer.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Funnily enough some of the research that allegedly showed how eating lots of meat and other fatty foods was bad for your heart actually showed some concerns about higher cancer rates among those avoiding all the 'fatty' foods and using lots of vegetable based products (marg instead of butter, vegetable oil instead of lard and whatever).
The study that this new WHO advice is based on starts by introducing the flawed idea that red meat with it's saturated fat and cholesterol is bad for you, so I've no reason to believe the rest of it is any more accurate.

No, this is to do with the nitrates and nitrites in cured meat and the Iron/haeme in red meat. It's long been known that these were potential carcinogens even when I studied food science 35 years ago, they've just refined the risk.

 

[slowmotion]

An Argentinian has an average life expectancy at birth of 76 years. That's mighty impressive for avid beef eaters.

 

[graham bowers]

Chefs Perks? You mean Bovril?

Same number of letters and the O, R and L are common to both.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm going all in........found some rather good meatballs in the Schipol lounge. Hong Kong next...then Xi'an...which is the home of barbequed lamb skewers in China. I'll be lucky to make it back alive

Travel large!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Been smoking kippers since I was 9.

How do you get them to light?

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 3974459, member: 259"]Dutch people practically survive on processed pork and dairy.

And lashings of mayonnaise, of course![/QUOTE]
IIRC, there is also some evidence tha calcium fro dairy products has some protective effects against bowel cancer due to its interaction with the iron from red meat. The Dutch eat a lot of dairy.