https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2018/10/04/processed-meats-like-bacon-sausage-linked-to-breast-cancer-study-says.aspxBacon may be the food of the decade, but if you&rsquo;re trying to avoid cancer, particularly breast cancer, you may want to take that item off your grocery list. A new study shows that regularly consuming processed meats like bacon, sausage and ham couldenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2018/10/04/processed-meats-like-bacon-sausage-linked-to-breast-cancer-study-says.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#92929710/6/2018 9:06:06 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:929297Rose_5-HT<p>A 9% increase of cancer is a joke, well, from now on I will eat cured meat everyday, the price (to health) is so low ! </p> <p>And again, why nitrate from vegetables is healthy and the one from processed meat is not ? Nitrate is a single molecule and the same whatever the source !</p> <p>Nitrate in high dose is dangerous, it cause cattle poisoning, yet in small amount it is beneficial since nitrate is converted to nitrite, then nitric oxide which is an iron chelator. This is why drugs like nitroglycerin (metabolized in the liver to glycerol and nitrate) is used against angina. Less free iron in the arteries means less atherosclerosis. L-arginine is another source of nitric oxide.</p> <p>A study (<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.health.am/cr/more/consumption-tied-to-kidney-cancer/">www.health.am/.../consumption-tied-to-kidney-cancer</a> &nbsp;) has even shown processed meat to decrease the prevalence of kidney cancer as much as vegetables (-36% vs -35%).</p>