experts from the world health organization today officially put an end to the question of the utility of consumption of red and processed meat. Daily consumption of sausages, bacon, ham, corned beef and other meat products increases the likelihood of developing cancer is almost the same as Smoking, reports The Guardian. Processed meat organization experts was placed in the same category as asbestos, alcohol, tobacco and arsenic.

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experts from the world health organization today officially put an end to the question of the utility of consumption of red and processed meat. Daily consumption of sausages, bacon, ham, corned beef and other meat products increases the likelihood of developing cancer is almost the same as Smoking, reports The Guardian. Processed meat organization experts was placed in the same category as asbestos, alcohol, tobacco and arsenic.

In the report who, in particular, says that red meat is "possibly carcinogenic", but eating 50 grams of processed meat a day increases the chance of developing bowel cancer by 18%. The risk of disease grows with the amount of meat used.

Assumptions about the harm of meat products were put forward earlier. Over the last 20 years on this subject was written around 800 scientific papers. Based on their study of 22 experts who from 10 countries and concluded that these meat products should be considered unsafe.