Get the facts about meat consumption and cancer risk.By Brenda Conaway
Given the October 2015 report from the World Health Organization (WHO) about the cancer hazards of eating red and processed meats, what’s a meat eater to do? Just how serious is the cancer risk from these foods?
“The evidence about red meat and processed meat and cancer has been around a long time,” says Mariana C.Stern, a cancer epidemiologist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a member of the working group responsible for the report. On behalf of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), WHO's cancer agency, the expert panel concluded that there was sufficient evidence that processed meat—which includes cold cuts, sausages and hot dogs—causes colorectal cancer in people. The working group also concluded that red meat—including beef, lamb, veal, goat and pork—probably causes colorectal cancer.
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