4.8 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Recently, the World Health Organization classified processed meat, |
0:15.6 | also known as cured meat, bacon, ham, hot dogs, lunch, meat, sausage, |
0:20.2 | as definitively cancer-causing in humans. |
0:23.6 | As if that's not enough, high processed meat consumption has also been associated with increased risk |
0:30.6 | of dying prematurely from all causes put together, and is a risk factor for several major |
0:36.6 | chronic diseases, such as |
0:39.3 | type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke. |
0:43.6 | What about lung issues like asthma? |
0:47.4 | Nitrites are added to processed meats as preservatives to preserve their pink, so they don't turn |
0:53.6 | gray, keeping them less rancid |
0:55.9 | tasting, and to present the growth of diseases like botulism. |
1:00.4 | But put that same sodium nitrite in a drinking water of lab animals, and they develop |
1:05.5 | emphysema. |
1:06.5 | They nearly all developed emphysema. |
1:10.5 | But that's all the scientific knowledge we had on the subject coming into 2007 |
1:14.6 | until this study, which found that frequent cured meat consumption is associated with |
1:20.6 | increased risk for developing diseases like emphysema in people, too. |
1:25.6 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. |
1:28.3 | Eating it like every other day appeared to triple the odds of severe COPD. |
1:34.3 | But it was just a snapshot in time study, so we don't know which came first. |
1:38.3 | The sausage or the COPD for that. |
1:41.3 | We need prospective studies to follow people over time, and the big twin Harvard |
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