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A disgraceful scare story - so don't bin your bacon sarnies: One nutritionist questions the claims made by the World Health Organisation after it declared war on red and processed meat
- The World Health Organisation said some meats could be carcinogenic
- One nutritionist questioned claims as no controlled trials have been done
- Meat actually provides essential nutrients and there is only a tiny risk
Burger
fans beware – and if you’re about to tuck into a bacon sarnie, put it
down now. And don’t even think about a ham roll for lunch.
Last
week the World Health Organisation declared war on red and processed
meat. It said that beef, lamb and pork were ‘probably carcinogenic to
humans’ and ‘each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily
increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent’.
The
proclamation caused quite a stir. But, before we rush to bin those
sausages, perhaps we should take time to dissect the WHO claims more
accurately.
I was confused because the
claims were made despite no controlled trials ever having been done to
look at what actually happens to people if they’re given 50 grams of
processed meat – that’s two slices of bacon, five slices of salami, half
a hot-dog, or 1.7 meatballs – per day.
Without such a controlled scientific trial, you cannot conclusively say A causes B.
So how did the WHO come to this shocking conclusion about bacon?
Well,
it looked at observational studies. This is where a large group of
people are asked loads of questions and given health tests (for example
blood pressure, weight, height and cholesterol) at the start of the
study. This is called the baseline.
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