Health: WHO warns that processed meat is cancerous

The WHO's warning that processed meat is cancerous has caused quite a stir - and a counter-reaction. Critics, including a Nobel laureate, say the report is too general and that WHO's health experts are exaggerating.

Get used to it: the World Health Organization is right. Sausages, bacon and other processed meats do indeed cause cancer.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the UN's World Health Organization, has evaluated all published studies and data on the subject of meat and cancer, and it has come to the conclusion that processed meat is "carcinogenic" and "causes colorectal cancer."
The same is "probably" true for red meat in general.(Read Further...)

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