{"id":559,"date":"2019-12-20T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:40:05","slug":"processed-meats-containing-this-preservative-are-linked-to-colon-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/processed-meats-containing-this-preservative-are-linked-to-colon-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Processed meats containing this preservative are linked to colon cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Processed meats preserved with sodium nitrite may cause cancer, research suggests.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcrf-uk.org\/uk\/preventing-cancer\/what-can-increase-your-risk-cancer\/red-and-processed-meat-and-cancer-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ylk=\"slk:The World Cancer Research Fund recommends\"><strong>The World Cancer Research Fund recommends<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0eating \u201cvery little, if any, processed meat because there is strong evidence it is a cause of bowel cancer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Whether hot dogs, bacon or sausages, processed meat is defined as an animal product that has been salted, cured, fermented or smoked to enhance its flavour and prolong its shelf life.<\/p>\n<p>While all processed meats were once tarred with the \u201ccancer brush\u201d,\u00a0<a class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-6643\/11\/11\/2673\/htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ylk=\"slk:scientists from Queen\u2019s University Belfast argue\"><strong>scientists from Queen\u2019s University Belfast argue\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>only those preserved with sodium nitrite carry a risk.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/processed-meats-containing-this-preservative-are-linked-to-colon-cancer-134941644.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Processed meats preserved with sodium nitrite may cause cancer, research suggests. The World Cancer Research Fund recommends\u00a0eating \u201cvery little, if any, processed meat because there is strong evidence it is a cause of bowel cancer\u201d. Whether hot dogs, bacon or sausages, processed meat is defined as an animal product that has been salted, cured, fermented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.theqiinstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}