Let's say you really need to find reliable information about the best diet for high blood

pressure or heart disease or diabetes.

Where do you go?

You go to a website sponsored by Big Pharma that wants to sell you pills to fix your problem

or do you want to treat the cause?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast with the latest peer-reviewed research on the

best ways to eat healthy and live longer.

Today we bring you some important research on processed meat, which has been classified

as a group one carcinogen.

How did meat industry government and cancer organizations respond to that news?

Here's our first story.

It is perhaps rare in the history of nations that one finds good reason to surrender

homage to the generosity and altruism of governments and those in power.

And the birth of the international agency for research on cancer presents one of those

rare occasions.

It all started with a single letter from a bereaved husband relating the suffering of

his wife after a cancer diagnosis, calling for governments to devote half of one percent

of their military budgets to fight for life by attacking one of the greatest plagues

that weigh on humanity.

18 months later, the IARC was born in the World Health Organization with what overarching

motive?

Cancer Prevention.

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