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Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Wait what.. goddamn it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This got me wondering: If bananas are radioactive, and radiation can mutate cells and cause cancer... Can bananas cause cancer? 🤔

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's theoretically possible, some experts think no level of radiation is "safe". Yet, it's so improbable that the risk of developing cancer from a single banana is indistinguishable from background noise. You get a far higher dose of radiation just from living on earth.

This fun infographic from xkcd shows a comparison of doses, and just how low a banana ranks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose#/media/File:Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png

It would have to be the "perfect shot" of a particle hitting a cell to cause DNA damage that wasn't repairable. And you would need to be extremely immunocompromised.

If you were in such a position to get cancer from eating a single banana, you would likely already get it from living life.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Perhaps, but the fiber cleans that bacon sandwich out of your colon quicker.

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