Fight Cancer, Avoid Meat

HAVE you considered eliminating meat in your diet?

Studies have found a strong connection between colon cancer and processed meat such as hot dogs and cold cuts, as well as beef and pork.

Women who ate approximately one ounce of processed meat (about one slice of bologna) two or three times a week for a decade were 50 percent more likely to develop colon cancer. Eating only two ounces of red meat a day, on long-term can increase the odds of rectal cancer by as much as 40 percent.

Colon cancer isn’t a carnivores only concern. Women who downed 1.5 servings of meat a day had nearly twice the breast cancer risk of those who ate fewer than three servings per week. Why? Carcinogens are created when meat is cooked at high temperatures as well as when it’s processed with substances such as nitrates.

Source: Journal Online