Why does the leading cancer and diet authority recommend we avoid bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage and all processed meat (including chicken and turkey)?
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More on processed meat can be found in videos such as:
• How to Avoid Phosphate Additives (
• Autopsy of Chicken Nuggets (
• Bacon, Eggs, and Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy (
• Why is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes? (
But cancer risk has been associated with unprocessed meat as well via a variety of potential mechanisms:
• PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Carcinogen (
• Meat Fumes: Dietary Secondhand Smoke (
• How Many Cancers Have Been Caused by Arsenic-Laced Chicken? (
• Prevent Cancer From Going on TOR (
• Starving Cancer with Methionine Restriction (
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