THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ALREADY A FEW YEARS AGO ISSUED A REPORT IN WHICH IT WARNS THAT PROCESSED MEAT (CLASSIFIED IN GROUP 1, WHERE INCLUDING ASBESTOS AND TOBACCO) INCREASES THE RISK OF CANCER, ESPECIALLY OF THE COLOR INTESTINE, WHILE RED MEAT IS POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC (GROUP 2A)

WHAT DO WE COUNT INTO THE "PROCESSED MEAT" GROUP?
MEAT PRODUCTS SMOKED, CURLED, SALTED OR OTHERWISE PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE TASTE OR EXTEND THEIR CONSUMPTION LIFE.

CLASSIFYING PROCESSED MEAT IN GROUP 1 MEANS THAT THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF THE CARCINOGENIC EFFECT OF A GIVEN AGENT IN HUMANS. ASSESSMENT IS USUALLY BASED ON EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER AMONG EXPOSED PEOPLE. IN THE CASE OF PROCESSED MEAT, THIS CLASSIFICATION IS BASED ON EVIDENCE FROM NUMEROUS EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES SHOWING THAT EATING PROCESSED MEAT CAUSES COLOR CANCER. THE RELATIONSHIP HAS ALSO BEEN OBSERVED IN STOMACH CANCER.

HOWEVER, SOME STUDIES CONDUCTED SO FAR HAVE LINKED THE CONSUMPTION OF PROCESSED AND RED MEAT ALSO WITH OTHER CANCERS, INCLUDING. WITH BREAST CANCER.

SCIENTISTS REVIEWED (META-ANALYSIS) ALL STUDIES PUBLISHED BEFORE JANUARY 2018 THAT EVALUATED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONSUMPTION OF PROCESSED AND RED MEAT AND THE INCIDENCE OF BREAST CANCER. THEY ANALYZED THE RESULTS OF 15 STUDIES EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROCESSED MEAT AND BREAST CANCER, WHICH INCLUDED DATA FROM 37,070 BREAST CANCER CASES IN OVER 1.2 MILLION WOMEN.

THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT WOMEN WHO EATED THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF PROCESSED MEAT (ON AVERAGE ABOUT 25-30 GRAMS A DAY) HAD A 9% HIGHER RISK OF BREAST CANCER THAN THOSE WHO CONSUMED THE LOWEST AMOUNT (ON AVERAGE 0-2 GRAMS). DAILY). HOWEVER, RED MEAT CONSUMPTION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A HIGHER RISK OF BREAST CANCER.

ADDITIONALLY, RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED A SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A HIGHER CONSUMPTION OF PROCESSED MEAT AND A HIGHER RISK OF BREAST CANCER AFTER MENOPAUSE, HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOTING THAT THE LACK OF A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP IN PRE-MENOPAUSE WOMEN MAY RESULT FROM LOWER SAMPLE SIZE AND FURTHER RESEARCH SHOULD BE CONDUCTED TO CLARIFY THIS.

WHAT'S MORE - ANOTHER STUDY SHOWED THAT AMONG WOMEN ALREADY SUFFERING FROM BREAST CANCER (AFTER HEARING THE DIAGNOSIS), WHO CONTINUED TO CONSUME LARGE AMOUNT OF GRILLED/GRILLED AND SMOKED MEAT, THE RISK OF DEATH FROM ANY REASON WAS UP TO 311TP3 HIGHER T

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