Ceroc Scotland Forum - View Single Post

Barry Shnikov · 1st-April-2008, 08:44 PM

What the research actually says is that a sausage a day (or 3 rashers of bacon, IIRC) increases the risk of cancer (twice? I think) but since the reports give no baseline, there's absolutely no way of telling whether that is significant.

Remember the 'contraceptive pill causes cancer' scares? One said that the risk of X cancer was increased by 50%. Looking into it, it was piffling - something like increasing the incidence in the population from 0.002 to 0.003. Yawn.

So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread. Increases my cancer risk about as much as leaving my shirt off for an hour in the sun, I shouldn't wonder. (It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)

1st-April-2008, 08:44 PM	#13 (permalink)
Barry Shnikov Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Southampton Posts: 5,968 Status: No Status Rep Power: 5 Rep.: 1278	Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer! What the research actually says is that a sausage a day (or 3 rashers of bacon, IIRC) increases the risk of cancer (twice? I think) but since the reports give no baseline, there's absolutely no way of telling whether that is significant. Remember the 'contraceptive pill causes cancer' scares? One said that the risk of X cancer was increased by 50%. Looking into it, it was piffling - something like increasing the incidence in the population from 0.002 to 0.003. Yawn. So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread. Increases my cancer risk about as much as leaving my shirt off for an hour in the sun, I shouldn't wonder. (It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)