Responsible citizenship

2015/11/02 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Dietetika/Elikagaiak
• Etika
• Osasuna

More than one meat meal may be concerned that processed meats and red meats increase the risk of cancer. Surely, if you are a responsible citizen, you will already know what the WHO World Agency for Cancer Research report says in small letters. That is, overcoming the terror caused by the corrals, he would resort to reliable sources and seek deep information.

Thus, you will know that eating more than 50 g of processed meat a day increases the risk of colon and rectal cancer by 18%, and although the inclusion of carcinogens along with tobacco and asbestos does not mean that it is as dangerous as they do, as it read or heard that tobacco cancers cause one million deaths a year, while cancers derived from the processed meat diet amount to 34,000.

You will also know that in this classification red meat has not been put to the same level as processed meat. In the case of red meat, the risk of cancer is not so clear, but it is suspicious.

Yes, you will surely know everything because it is really responsible. However, the functions of public health may be remembered at any given time and it is observed that it is up to the health authorities to give clear criteria and, in the event that measures should be taken to limit risk, to adopt without assuming any individual responsibility. I also think it should be so.

Published in the newspaper Berria.

--> For more information on the subject:

- Listen to the collaboration in the Faktoria program of Euskadi Irratia: World Health Organization Report with Ana Galarraga de Elhuyar

- See Underline range: Has the World Health Organization been responsible for meat?