Transform your fry-up to avoid bowel cancer
If you love your fry-up every morning, this isn't great news for you.
The World Cancer Research Fund says that eating 150g a day of processed meat can increase your risk of bowel cancer to 63%. That's the equivalent of two sausages and three rashers of bacon each day - the staple of a classic fry-up.
With sausage sales up 5.4% in the past year, it seems we've been caught out with this news. Or rather, our men have. Sausages are most popular among men aged 17 to 64, with Saturday being 'favourite fry-up day'.
In fact, did you know that the four most common cancers in the UK are breast, lung, colorectal and prostate cancer? Your chances of getting bowel cancer are 1 in 20 for women and 1 in 18 for men.
Add that to the risks of obesity and heart attack associated with fry-ups, and it's time to kiss goodbye to the big British fry-up (well, at least on a daily basis).
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Sources: The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Mirror, National Statistics Online
By Catherine Archer
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John H Woods, about 1 year
These stats aren't good enough - what does a 63% increase mean? Going on holiday twice a year increases your chance of being involved in an air crash by 100%. All scientists who quote %age or factor increases for small(ish) risks without quantifying those risks in absolute terms are guilty of either fraud or incompetence. Or both.
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