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Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« on: January 13, 2012, 03:22:40 PM »

Eating bacon or sausage increases pancreatic cancer risk:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/health/120113/bacon-sausage-pancreatic-cancer-processed-meat-spam


Hmmm . . . I don't really need my pancreas . . . do I?

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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2012, 03:26:01 PM »
This is a major bummer.  Pancreatic cancer has a very high mortality rate. 
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2012, 03:30:11 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on January 13, 2012, 03:26:01 PM
This is a major bummer.  Pancreatic cancer has a very high mortality rate. 

So does life.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2012, 03:51:48 PM »
Experts are quoted as saying
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the overall risk of pancreatic cancer was relatively low. Most people have only a 1.4 percent chance of getting pancreatic cancer, reported Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News's senior health and medical editor.  “If you have a serving of processed meat per day, your risk would go up to 1.7 percent; still very small.”

To put this in perspective, ask yourself how many fewer lottery tickets you would have to buy if your odds of winning increased by 0.3 percent.

I'm also concerned about the lack of studies of all the people who did not get pancreatic cancer.  Could it actually be that bacon/sausages shielded them, unlike the unworthy unbelievers who did get it?

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2012, 05:15:52 PM »
Who's got that pic of Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs and (please don't die) Kevin Bacon laying around?
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2012, 05:21:01 PM »
I wouldn't worry; according to radio pundit Rush Limbaugh, 'everyone who has eaten carrots has, or will, die.' 
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2012, 05:56:05 PM »
It is possible that people that like cured meats also like other things that will shorten life. So, to know for sure we need to cage a large group of vegan hippies and feed them bacon.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2012, 08:02:29 PM »
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So, to know for sure we need to cage a large group of vegan hippies and feed them bacon.

I suspect not. I suspect that vegans on the average, hippy or not, have significant health problems without being force fed anything.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2012, 08:03:47 PM »
Quote from: French G. on January 13, 2012, 05:56:05 PM
It is possible that people that like cured meats also like other things that will shorten life. So, to know for sure we need to cage a large group of vegan hippies and feed them bacon.

Cast not your pearls before swine. Er...  =|
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2012, 08:43:34 PM »
Hey....if I'm gonna die of something, it might as well be bacon....  :cool:
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2012, 08:52:45 PM »
Steve jobs was a vegetarian
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2012, 09:09:24 PM »
You can have my bacon when you pry it from my cold dead, and slightly yellow hands.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2012, 09:51:42 PM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on January 13, 2012, 08:52:45 PM
Steve jobs was a vegetarian

He also lasted an extraordinary length of time for someone with pancreatic cancer.

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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2012, 11:48:20 PM »
And he's the only shovel-ready Jobs we've seen since Obama got into office.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2012, 12:52:12 AM »
Quote from: mtnbkr on January 13, 2012, 09:51:42 PM
He also lasted an extraordinary length of time for someone with pancreatic cancer.

And was extraordinarily rich.

These things make a difference.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2012, 01:32:45 AM »
Quote from: BridgeRunner on January 16, 2012, 12:52:12 AM
And was extraordinarily rich.

These things make a difference.

It helps when you can buy yourself onto the liver transplant lists.  Many oncologists believe that his pursuit of alternative treatment ruined his best chance of success with conventional treatment due to the delay.  He faced long odds in any case.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2012, 02:14:21 AM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on January 13, 2012, 08:52:45 PM
Steve jobs was a vegetarian

That'll teach him.
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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2012, 09:08:03 AM »
Quote from: fistful on January 15, 2012, 11:48:20 PM
And he's the only shovel-ready Jobs we've seen since Obama got into office.

Now that was pretty brutal. Funny as hell, but a little gauche even for me.

but hey, since you started it!

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Re: Oh, dear and fluffy Lord, say it isn't so . . .
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2012, 11:26:01 AM »
The other shovel-ready job was bin Laden, but they screwed that one up.  :facepalm:
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