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Small increase in risk of cancer with routine consumption of processed meats.
Smoking, alcohol, too much sun without sunscreen, and your overall lifestyle and diet quality (eg, are you active everyday, do you eat plenty of fruit and veg and stay healthy weight?) are the key factors.
The odds of you getting cancer from eating sausages, bacon, deli meats, etc are negligible at best. If your overall lifestyle is crap and you smoke, drink, don’t work out, etc then it might be a problem and even then we don’t know. A lot of cancer is simply genetics. If your mom had cervical cancer it’s likely that she passed down that gene to you. Same thing with if your father had colon cancer he likely passed it down to you. This is why bringing up diets is important but when the media misinterprets what the WHO is saying and scares people without giving the entire story it creates hysteria and paranoia
It can also depend on genetic predisposition, in some instances. For example, my dad has colon cancer and will not recover - which implies that I’m at a generic risk for being more likely than others to get colon cancer some time in my life. And since processed meats have technically been linked to cancer, particularly colon cancer - sausage may be more risky for me to consume on a daily basis than it may be for you. Not a guaranteed thing, but it’s what I’ve been told since all this started. I know that’s not nutrition related exactly, but if cancer is your concern then you should be knowledgeable about your genetic predispositions so you can decide if you want to eliminate external risk factors or not - personally, I’ve opted to drastically cut back on meat in my diet as a result. 🥲
You don’t get cancer , you gain wait , they have cholesterol and they’re not that healthy. But as for cancer no one knows for sure , there’s not enough study about sausages. Eat what you like but with a limit .
You won’t. Assuming it’s quality is good (no processed ingredients, basically just meat casing, salt, spices) and a general decent diet. You’ll be fine.
Meat is not a issue. Heavily processed meat is a problem.
But even if its processed, once in a while is likely to have little to no impact in the grand scheme.
The nitrites are strong allergens and apparently known carcinogens. But the dose also makes the poison. Of course if you could get sausages without nitrites then that would help. Pork is also not the healthiest meat compared with beef or lamb