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Re:Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on go... by debacle on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:48PM (#10453000)
From what I've read on /r/science eating 100g of the specified meats daily increases your risk of certain cancers by ~20%.

Compare with smoking, which increases the risk of lung cancer by 1,000-1,500%

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Re:Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on go... by tkyjonathan on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:10PM (#10453681)
Here are some actual studies (impact factor between 7.5 to 17) showing the connection between meat and cancer. This was probably part of the 800 studies that the WHO used to make its decision.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24606898

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21422422

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121650/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23169929

http://share.kaiserpermanente.org/article/high-fat-dairy-pro...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22342103

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14585259

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19279082

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