WHO Warns Hot Dogs, Bacon Can Cause Cancer

Eating processed meats such as ham, sausages, bacon and hot dogs can cause cancer, says the World Health Organization, which adds that eating red meat probably does too. The report, by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer evaluated more than 800 studies from several continents about meat and cancer. The experts found that eating 50 grams of processed meat, on the daily basis, raised the likelihood of getting cancer of the colon and rectum by 18 percent. As a...

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