Read it and weep…
Looks like I should have been dead years ago. LOL
Sounds like Cracker Barrel may be a death merchant.
Several things:
1. The study talks about rashers, and although I ate rashers this morning the bacon we typically get in the US is belly bacon, aka streaky bacon, and comes from a different part of the animal.
2. This study says there is no link in women:
3. The incidence of pancreatic cancer is about 14 cases per 100,000 people per year. The bad news is that you are about 10 times more likely to get pancreatic cancer than Lou Gehrig’s disease. The good news is that the chances of both are very small. A 29% increase in a very small number is still very small. Further, the median age at onset is 72 years.
Eat bacon.
Nitrates, when used as preservatives and color-enhancing agents for meats, can react with the body’s natural amino acids to form nitrosamines. Nitrosamines have been linked with cancers in humans according to some studies.
It also depends on your body chemistry, more specifically it is when nitrates are converted into nitrites in the large intestine then reabsorbed into the body that pose a health threat. However, if normal conditions exist in the intestine, such as a low pH, the nitrate is simply processed and removed as waste without any harmful effects.
Ohh Crap!
I’m currently curing 10 lbs. of Pork Belly (Bacon) to be smoked on Sunday. Who wants my brewing equipment so I can change my will???
Just don’t use nitrates…use salt and sugar alone.
Too late. Morton Tender Quick has been applied. Which is mostly salt.
And for the record. BEER causes CANCER too… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer
As well as a whole slew of other things… Just sayin’…
Cheers!!!
Life causes cancer. Stop worrying about it.
The link isn’t nearly as clear as cigarettes/cancer. How many smokey bars do you play Ron? 
None…Delaware is a smoke free state.
horseshit! This is just another study done by a vegetarian/vegan group. Pull up the movie ‘Fathead’ on netflix and take a look… again, its just another point of view but between all the corruption between govt agencies and research labs wanting to make sure they get their funding, they’ll publish anything that gets them that money.
Oh please… Walking outside increases risk of cancer, in more ways than can be counted.
Is it in Swedish? ;D
While the info in the report may or may mot be correct, it certainly doesn’t sound like it comes from a “vegetarian/vegan group”.
“The latest study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, is from researchers at the respected Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.”
Didn’t they say it was combined from multiple different studies and this was almost a side finding. Maybe I misheard it on the new this morning.
Regardless, bacon me!
The fact is every breath you take increases you risk of dying as it makes you one breath closer to the last one you will take. Like others have said “everything causes cancer”. The cool thing is, a lot of research is being done with vaccines, among other avenues, that may make some cancers curable. We live in strange times.
I just hope we aren’t about to become “immortal” just in time to live in a 15th century economy. At least brewers were valued by the ruling class. WE ARE THE 6.4%ABV!!! 8^)
I think I have a package of bacon in the freezer. Mmmmmm…
Paul
I expect there’s some cause versus correlation issues at play here, where cancer risks increase with obesity, obese people eat more sausage etc. Everything in moderation (except bacon and IPA) and we’ll be fine…
Speaking from experience, that is not true. There are some unscrupulous people out there who will lie and twist their research, but there are many many more who will not. I know that first hand.
There are people who will do anything for money in every kind of job all over the world. You just can’t paint the rest of them with that broad of a brush.
Good for you
Also note, didn’t it say these people ate bacon every day and only had a 29% increase? Most of us don’t eat bacon that much.
Yep. I don’t even recall the last time I ate bacon. The thing that caught my eye was pancreatic cancer. I don’t know if you’ve ever known anyone who’s had it but it’s a particularly nasty form of cancer.