Eating processed meat leads to higher cancer risk, say world health chefs

We often think that cigarettes are big cause of cancer, however world health chefs have added bacon, burgers and sausages to the list as well.

The World Health Organisation is to list processed meat among the most cancer-causing substances, alongside arsenic and asbestos, as reported in Daily Mail.

Fresh red meat will also be joining the list, however it is comparatively less dangerous than the processed meat products.

This ruling will shock the food and farming sector. As per reports, they could also lead to new dietary guidelines and warning labels on packs of bacon.

The classifications, by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, come amid mounting concern that meat fuels the disease which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK, as reported by the Daily Mail.

The panel scientists from 10 nations have reviewed all the available evidence and the decision will come on Monday.

Links to bowel cancer, Britain’s second biggest cancer killer, are particularly strong, with estimations that half of cases could be prevented by healthier lifestyles.

The Department of Health’s scientific advisers recently concluded that red and processed meat ‘probably’ increase the odds of bowel cancer.

Processed meat is carcinogenic to humans and is blamed for one in 30 deaths. The technique used for preserving meat can raise the level of cancer causing chemical.

The World Cancer Research Fund recommends avoiding processed meat altogether.