MORE "BULL" FROM THE MEDIA
About two weeks ago the media
reported that the World Health Organization (the public health arm of the
United Nations) stated that “red meat probably
causes cancer.”
The media, as has become the
norm lately, blew the results out of all proportion. Red meat is classified as Group 2A.
The World Health Organization’s definition of Group 2A is as
follows.
Group 2A: The agent
is probably carcinogenic to humans. This category is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of
carcinogenicity in experimental animals. Limited evidence means that a positive
association has been observed between exposure to the agent and cancer but that
other explanations for the observations (technically termed chance, bias, or
confounding) could not be ruled out
Some of the other items that
fall into Group 2A include:
·
Working as a
hairdresser or barber
·
Doing shift work (your circadian rhythms are
disrupted)
·
Having a wood
burning fireplace
I’m not telling you to eat
red meat or not eat red meat. I don’t care if your eat beef, lamb, goat or
horse meat vs chicken, turkey or sea food.
What I’m telling you is don’t
fall for misleading information. It doesn’t matter whether it comes for the
scam artist or the mainstream media. It’s still snake oil.
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