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[Rods2]

When they quote a figure like "19% higher", it is very misleading! Pancreatic cancer is very rare with the chances of getting it for each year of your life is 0.0133%. The rate increases with age and men get it more than women, so this is only a very crude calculation. If you live to 80 years of age your chances of dying from Pancreatic cancer are 1.064 or 1 in 100. Now if you eat a lot of processed meat this goes up to 1.26% or 1 in 80.

So, you are 79 more times to die of another illness or old age, if you eat a very high processed meat diet, this is still far more likely to be old age  or maybe bowel cancer or a heart attack. 

Doesn't seem so bad now the "headline" statistics have been put into context. 

The biggest cause of death is old age, so I say lets ban it. 

Don't forget Murphy's second law: All of the enjoyable things in life are either illegal, immoral or fattening. 

I had already got 1/2 a pack of sausages and bacon out of my freezer when I read this. Tomorrow morning it will be joined with 2 eggs, mushrooms, a tomato, half a can of beans, two slices of toast, plenty of brown sauce, washed down with a big mug of coffee. Every month of two I get the urge for a full English breakfast fry up, it takes alot of beating. 

[hoofing it]

I like mine burnt so all the s***e is burnt off

[big mel]

I & a lot of truckers like myself must be doomed. bacon. sarnies are a staple diet for most of the truckers i know. I'm still eating them every morning at 73yrs of age & i have no plans to stop now.

[Tony H]

FFS!!!!  I AM GETTING SO P!SSED OFF WITH ALL THESE SURVEYS TELLING WHAT IS BAD FOR YOU
P.S Sorry for shouting 

[PhilRich]

I've been fine all these years, so I'll stick with it

+1 i have a bacon sarnie nearly every morning  and im not changing my habits

They say a dirty habit is twice as likely to see you off early as a bacon sarny every morning Millwall. You have been warned!!

[omega3000]

.....as found in pork pies. Mmmm tasty

..................and hotdogs 

[Tony H]

My dad god bless him, lived to the age of 82, when you take into account he was born in 1918 not a bad innings I think. He ate a fryed brekkie every morning before hopping onto his bicycle to work which was a five mile ride. The breakfast consisted of deep fryed bacon,egg sausage and fried bread to soak up all the cooking fat, which was beef dripping all washed down with a pint mug of tea. It really does make you think whether It is worth eating heathy and following a purile life style just to end your final years sat in the corner of a nursing home, seanile, dribbling and doubly incontinent, Food for thought.

[hotel21]

My dad god bless him, lived to the age of 82, when you take into account he was born in 1918 not a bad innings I think. He ate a fryed brekkie every morning before hopping onto his bicycle to work which was a five mile ride. The breakfast consisted of deep fryed bacon,egg sausage and fried bread to soak up all the cooking fat, which was beef dripping all washed down with a pint mug of tea. It really does make you think whether It is worth eating heathy and following a purile life style just to end your final years sat in the corner of a nursing home, seanile, dribbling and doubly incontinent, Food for thought.

Yup.   

Perhaps a lot to be said for the saying up this aways...

Whits fer ye will no gang by ye...

In other words, if its meant to happen to you, it will.  (and not worth the candle to worry about in any event....  )