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The World Health Organization now classifies processed meat in the same category as smoking and asbestos. Is nothing sacred? The sound you hear is the collective sigh of men lamenting the fact that they should give up foot-long subs and meat lover’s pizzas. Fat chance. In October, the WHO said that eating processed meat such as sausages and ham causes cancer. The evidence is based on hundreds of studies and links processed meat specifically to colon and colorectal cancer. The WHO’s report claims that eating as little as 50 grams of processed meat a day (roughly two slices of ham) can increase the risk of cancer by 18 percent.
