Science

16429 readers

35 users here now

Subscribe to see new publications and popular science coverage of current research on your homepage

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

MinutePhrase@lemmy.ml

There is no safe amount of processed meat to eat, according to new research | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 6 days ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/science@lemmy.ml

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sxan@midwest.social 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

people who ate as little as one hot dog a day

Who TF is eating a hot dog every day? That's their idea of a minimum amount of a particular food?

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I know, right? One hot dog a day sounds like excess junk food consumption to me, not minimal consumption. These people clearly already do not have a decent diet and probably have other poor lifestyle choices. So it seems disingenuous to say that there is no safe minimum level of processed food consumption when their "minimum" is already excessive.

I get that this stuff increases cancer risk, but so does everything. Enjoying life without being too excessive with anything is what we should all shoot for. Life is a balance.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know people who eat at McDonald's like 5 or more times a week.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

They should have used MacDonalds. That, I could believe.