Show 1013: Bacon Causes Cancer! How Good Is the Science Behind the Headlines?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Bacon and Cancer: Not long ago, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Cancer Research stirred up a lot of controversy by announcing that processed meats such as bacon or hot dogs should be classified as human carcinogens. What does this pronouncement actually mean? Has it changed the way you cook or eat, and should […]

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0:40.2	How bad is bacon?
0:42.6	We've been told that processed meat causes cancer.
0:45.5	Is there any way to determine the degree of risk?
0:49.5	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:53.1	Thank you. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
1:01.3	Americans love pills.
1:04.4	People are taking more medicine today than ever before.
1:10.3	In the last decade, the number of people taking at least five different medications has almost doubled.
1:13.3	Are you swallowing a handful of pills every day?
1:14.5	Are they compatible?
1:19.9	A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that there are advantages to getting systolic blood pressure below 120.
1:23.0	What are the drawbacks?
1:24.7	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the health news that matters to you with your
1:29.2	calls and questions. First, this news.
1:39.6	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, a large study of blood pressure treatment was stopped early in September because the results were considered so promising. Now the data have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
1:53.0	The study was called Sprint, which stands for systolic blood pressure intervention trial. 9,361 people with hypertension were recruited to participate.
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