Processed Meat and Cancer: The Science

In response to the headlines about processed foods and colorectal cancer, I decided to look at some of the research on cancer and colorectal cancer. Rather then write a long drawn-out article, I’m going to give you the bottom line on what I found.

• The risk of getting any type of cancer in a lifetime is one in two for men and one in three for women (1). The lifetime risk of getting colon cancer is 4.84% for men and 4.49% for women. If the risk is an average of 18% higher by eating . . .
  

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