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Stop eating bacon butties. Or maybe don't…

I enjoy a nice bacon butty every now and again, but once again my ‘guilty pleasure’ is under attack by the health goons. The ‘media’ is again mentioning a major report from the World Cancer Research Fund that estimates that there is a 20% increased risk of bowel cancer if you eat 50g of processed meat every day – that’s a large bacon sandwich. (This was first headlines in 2007).

But it’s all about how the risk is ‘spun’ – put it another, less frightening and headline grabbing way, eating bacon sandwiches everyday reduces your chance of avoiding bowel cancer by 1.1%.

If you’re interested, it’s all explained here – http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/233

Now, pass the ketchup…

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By: charliehunt - 1st June 2014 at 09:59

:very_drunk: Only a healthy drink i hope 😎

Just calculating how many glasses of wine I need to meet the grape component of my 5 (or is it 7?) a day…………;)

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By: Bob - 1st June 2014 at 09:49

My bacon intake will remain the same…

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By: silver fox - 31st May 2014 at 19:38

Don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol or energy drinks, don’t eat too much fruit, don’t eat processed foods, don’t, don’t, don’t, for me I’m not sure if we will live longer, it will certainly feel like it.

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By: charliehunt - 31st May 2014 at 19:27

Wise words!!

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By: hampden98 - 31st May 2014 at 18:29

The irony of life is that a fitness fanatic that doesn’t eat meat will die of bowel cancer when
a slob who has lived a life of bacon butties will not.
I received a letter from my doctor to have a free check up as I was approaching 50.
Now I’ve had an average life. Spent my child hood eating Wimpys each lunch time at school.
Never thought about my health just ate what I wanted – in moderation.
To my amazement my tests all came back negative. No cholesterol, no high blood pressure.
A little tubby but otherwise clean bill of health.
Just enjoy yourself. The stress of worrying will kill you more quickly than a few bacon butties.
The outcome is the same whatever.

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By: trumper - 31st May 2014 at 17:41

Doomed but happy πŸ™‚

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By: Bob - 31st May 2014 at 16:55

Only doomed by 1.1% more than if you had not eaten bacon… πŸ˜‰

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By: neil osborne - 31st May 2014 at 16:51

Well that’s me stuffed then.

Bacon roll at Duxford yesterday, one at the local garden show this morning, followed by another for lunch. I’m doomed….:eek:

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By: trumper - 31st May 2014 at 14:42

:very_drunk: Only a healthy drink i hope 😎

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By: charliehunt - 31st May 2014 at 09:35

I’ll drink to that!!;)

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By: trumper - 31st May 2014 at 09:23

Whats the point of living a long time if you can’t have a bacon butty or full English every now and again.
It’s all about being sensible ,moderation and exercise.

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By: Newforest - 31st May 2014 at 07:52

Just had my best ever bacon bap at the Wishing Well tea rooms in Eaglesham! Check them out.

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By: Moggy C - 30th May 2014 at 23:37

Buying two lottery tickets instead of one doubles your chances of winning the jackpot prize. But you still won’t actually win it.

Moggy

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By: TonyT - 30th May 2014 at 23:13

Thank God you let me know before it’s to late Edgar, I will start smoking 40 a day as I’ve heard it kills your appetite, hopefully that should see me through, I think I’ll add a litre of Gin and tonic a night just to be on the safe side of the equation, as I’ve heard tonic is a wonder drug in fighting the likes of malaria, so it should easily see off a bacon buttie.

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By: bazv - 30th May 2014 at 23:08

Moderation in all things – ffs – the most difficult thing in life when surrounded by eating temptation ; )

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By: Edgar Brooks - 30th May 2014 at 22:57

Remember the “Brown bread is so much better for you than white” campaign? Probably not, if you’re under 40, and my mother, who made her own bread, refused to have anything to do with it, anyway. How I wish she’d still been alive, around 15 years ago, when I read a tiny item, tucked away in the middle of a newspaper, where the leading “expert” admitted, “During our calculations, we got the decimal point in the wrong place; there’s virtually no difference.”

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By: charliehunt - 30th May 2014 at 22:13

One of the more depressing aspects of life today is the seemingly endless succession of health advice, each contradicting one of its predecessors, thereby diminishing the effect of each.

I ignore the lot!

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