World Cancer Research Fund strongly links nitrates with bowel cancer

World Cancer Research Fund strongly links nitrates with bowel cancer 12/29/2010

No Christmas Ham at our place nor bacon for breakfast and never any sausages on the menu. I will not have processed meat in my home. I will eat 'junk food' before I would eat processed meat, I see it as the cause of one of the most preventable cancers there is, bowel cancer.

I do eat processed meat when I am visiting friends and they serve it. I figure a little once in a blue moon will do no harm but I have been aware of the link of nitrates in processed meat to the risks of cancer for a long time and frankly consider processed meat to be too dangerous to eat regularly.

This is what an accredited practising dietitian, Monica Kubizniak, has to say about processed meat.

Processed Meats
My parents are European, so we used to eat quite a bit of ham and salami. But since I’ve found out about the high nitrate content of processed meats, I’ve banned my family from eating them. Nitrates (which you can identify by the numbers 249 to 252 on food labels) are the preservatives that give processed meat its nice pink appearance. Because the World Cancer Research Fund strongly links nitrates with bowel cancer, I’ve dropped the sausage in favour of freshly cooked meat; poultry; and plant proteins, such as lentils and tofu.
Monica Kubizniak - Accredited practising dietitian, Nutrition and Wellbeing Clinic, Sydney

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