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Hot Docs: Cancer and School Lunches, Children and the Death Penalty, and Bridge Safety

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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.

Denise DeChant of NH 1:55PM October 02, 2008

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.

John of CA 9:37PM September 17, 2008

"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!

Frank of NY 9:31PM September 13, 2008

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.

John of CA 7:12PM September 12, 2008

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.

John of NJ 5:05PM September 12, 2008

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

John of CA 5:33PM September 11, 2008

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?

David of VA 2:19PM September 11, 2008