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NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

Friday Favorites: The Effects of Processed Meat on Lung Function

NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health

4.8877 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?

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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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