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Vegan Diets

Low fat vegan diets have been proven to reverse coronary artery disease and greatly improve type 2 diabetes. Both of these diseases are huge strains on our medical system plus they cause plenty of human suffering.

Reduce Cancer Risk by Avoiding Hot Dogs

Pop quiz: Given the overwhelming scientific evidence that hot dogs and other processed meats substantially increase the risk of colorectal cancer, a disease that strikes 150,000 Americans a year, why on earth wouldn't you avoid these products? The food industry wants you to adopt a fatalistic attitude--danger is everywhere, they argue, so why bother protecting yourself by thinking about what you eat? That's exactly what tobacco companies use to say about their product. If you care about your life and health more than Oscar Mayer's bottom line, you'll steer clear of proccessed meats--just like you quit smoking.

You can say that about EVERY food

"the panel was not able to find a level at which consumption of processed meat could be reliably considered completely safe..."

Sounds like you could say the same thing about tofu too. All that soy estrogen.

I'm just saying...

You can live in fear of your food, or you can kill it 'n grill it. We're eating more meat than ever, and we're living longer than ever. The rest is all just fine detail for some pointy-headed PhD trying to justify his next research grant.

Next!

Report Implicates Processed Meat

Sorry, but the science is pretty clear on this: hot dogs and other processed meats DO increase the risk of colon and rectal cancer. Last year, the American Institute for Cancer Research issued a report that came to exactly that conclusion: The more processed meat you eat, the higher your risk. Those conclusions were based on 58 published scientific studies.

Here's a quote from the cancer experts at AICR: "Based on convincing evidence, the panel recommends avoiding processed meats such as bacon, ham, sausage and lunchmeat. After carefully examining all of the evidence, the panel was not able to find a level at which consumption of processed meat could be reliably considered completely safe."

Read more about the report here: http://www.aicr.org/site/News2?abbr=pr_&page=NewsArticle&id=12898

The naysayers are sounding more and more like tobacco company PR flacks--which some of them actually are.

How many of them are vegetarians?

How many of them are "ethical vegetarians"? I'm betting 100 percent. I have a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton. I'm not fooled.

I know Neal Barnard is a psychiatrist. Not exactly a nutrition expert. Come on, how stupid do you think we are...?

MDs or not, these busybodies should mind their own business. especially since a host of responsible media people have made it clear that there's NO DEFINITE CAUSAL LINK between cancer and processed meat.

Have you ever taken a science class? Even one? Correlation isn't the same as causation. This doesn't pass the smell test.

Cancer Project's Impressive Board

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, David. Here is the The Cancer Project's board of directors and medical advisers--a pretty impressive bunch of physicians and other health care professionals. I'd take their advice over self-interested propaganda from the meat industry any day.

Cancer Project Board of Directors

Neal Barnard, M.D.

Deborah Bernal, M.D.

Barbara Wasserman, M.D.

Cancer Project Advisory Board

Ron Allison, M.D. East Carolina University

Paulette Chandler, M.D., M.P.H. Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Donald Doll, M.D. Ellis Fischel Cancer Center

Sarah Friebert, M.D. Akron Children's Hospital

Divya-Devi Joshi, M.D. Marshfield Clinic

Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc.D. Kaiser Permanente

Amy Lanou, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Asheville

Ana Negron, M.D. Community Volunteers in Medicine and family physician

Groesbeck Parham, M.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center

The Cancer Project is an animal rights group

The Cancer Project is an animal rights group affiliated with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine -- which is itself an offshoot of PETA.

Doesn't anyone at US News know how to Google?