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4zzz, Health, Organisations Oct 28,2015

WHO labels red and processed meats as carcinogenic

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The World Health Organisation has ranked cured and processed meats in the same category as cigarettes for cancer causers.
The report from WHO not only ranks processed meats as group one carcinogens due to a link with bowel cancer, but also places red meat in group 2A as ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ due to a link with pancreatic and prostate cancer.
Professor Dallas English from the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics speaks and what this means for Australia’s meat eaters.

by Kara de Groot
Organisations, Uncategorized May 3,2013

“I am more than just my breasts” – Keep a Breast campaign is anything but supportive.

Sarah Woods* is your typical 16-year-old girl: she goes to school, she runs a blog, and she dyes her hair. She cares about her family, and deeply loves her 80-year-old grandmother. But beyond that, she is acutely aware of the devastating effect breast cancer has on the families of those suffering. In 2010 Sarah’s grandmother, along with 13,700 other Australians, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately she is in remission, meaning she is beating the cancer, but she and her family, like so many other Australians, have had to endure years of pain and worry due to this insidious disease. Read More

by Kara de Groot

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