Men taking the erectile dysfunction and enlarged prostate drug were 33% more likely to develop primary open-angle glaucoma, according to a recent study.
Same deal with cancer increases from different activities.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Smoking is still a substantial increase though. Plus the fact that a minority of smokers get lung cancer, but 90% of people with lung cancer were smokers.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Eating 50g of cured meats every day raises the risk from about 5% to about 6% chance of getting certain gastrointestinal/colorectal cancers, compared to someone who never eats cured meats. A couple different ways to state this:
1% of cured meat eaters will develop cancer that they wouldn’t have otherwise developed, by eating cured meat.
There is a 20% increase in risk of cancer from eating cured meat.
Cured meat eaters who have cancer have approximately a 16% chance of having gotten the cancer from the meat they eat.
But it’s not negligible. And the causal connection is pretty strongly proven.
I know its just I have a 50/50 shot of getting cancer if I live like a monk and avoid carcinogenic foods, or i can eat what I enjoy and makes my life fulfilling knowing my risk is probably like 10% higher overall.
I think the fact that I don’t drink or smoke at all makes up for it. I can enjoy cured and smoked meats to my hearts content.
Never eat sausage or pepperoni, or have a slight increase in cancer risk? I’ll take the meats.
I’m sure it’s cumulative, so of course I’ll not eat like a stick of pepperoni every day, but once in a while won’t appreciably increase my risk. (I had one sausage and one pepperoni piece of pizza today for lunch, in fact.)
Same deal with cancer increases from different activities.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Smoking is still a substantial increase though. Plus the fact that a minority of smokers get lung cancer, but 90% of people with lung cancer were smokers.
Eating 50g of cured meats every day raises the risk from about 5% to about 6% chance of getting certain gastrointestinal/colorectal cancers, compared to someone who never eats cured meats. A couple different ways to state this:
But it’s not negligible. And the causal connection is pretty strongly proven.
I know its just I have a 50/50 shot of getting cancer if I live like a monk and avoid carcinogenic foods, or i can eat what I enjoy and makes my life fulfilling knowing my risk is probably like 10% higher overall.
I think the fact that I don’t drink or smoke at all makes up for it. I can enjoy cured and smoked meats to my hearts content.
Never eat sausage or pepperoni, or have a slight increase in cancer risk? I’ll take the meats.
I’m sure it’s cumulative, so of course I’ll not eat like a stick of pepperoni every day, but once in a while won’t appreciably increase my risk. (I had one sausage and one pepperoni piece of pizza today for lunch, in fact.)
Yeah I bet its both dose and consistency that do it. I can’t live without cured meat, cheese, and campfire bread while backpacking or camping…
Lies, damned lies and statistics.