5 things: What the findings on red, processed meat and cancer really mean
Key takeaway: Level of risk depends on how much processed meat you eat
Eating 50 grams — two slices of bacon — each day boosts your risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent, according to the findings. The researchers found a "statistically significant dose-response relationship" between the consumption of processed meats and colorectal cancer.
Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism that links obesity and diabetes with cancer: high sugar levels, which increase activity of a gene widely implicated in cancer progression.
Kids who cut processed sugar from their diets for just nine days had lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar — a finding that supports the idea that sugar itself is a major culprit in heart disease and diabetes, researchers said Tuesday.
And it suggests that it doesn't take long to reverse the harmful effects of consuming too much sugar.