Processed meats and cancer
Meat and cancer: Making sense of the evidence
The risk of developing cancer arises from chemicals produced by processing the meat and from cooking.
So far public reaction on social media has been a clear vote in favor of all things sausage and bacon.
Has a misleading message on the dangers of processed meat been put into the public domain?
The link between red meat & cancer
South Africans said they would take the risk rather than turn their backs on the nation's social centrepiece.
Carl Albrecht, associate researcher at Stellenbosch University, discusses the WHO’s latest report, which claims that eating just 50 grams of processed meat a day increases the chance of developing Colorectal Cancer by 18%.
The WHO has published a report that says certain meats increases the chance of developing Colorectal Cancer.
IARC put processed meat in its group 1 list, for which there is 'sufficient evidence' of cancer links.