Bacon and BC! Has anyone else read this?

OH MY GOD
My favorite meal is chicken breast wrapped in chicken with salad and new potatoes.Surely that cant be why I got bladder cancer.I dont drink other than hi days and holidays have never smoked and am not exposed to enviromental chemicals.
I may have had my favorite tea for the last time this cant be true honestly can it?
Claire x

Bob,

After reading that article about nitrites and nitrates in cosmetics, I'm glad that I've been making my own face creams!!

The part about Vitamin C and Vitamin E was interesting.

I just ran a search on topixnet and found this from Nerve India...

I may quit chicken again!! :-/

I also found this interesting article from Loma Linda University (Seventh Day Adventist) RE: Vegetarianism...

Here is the whole article...you've got me thinking!!

www.llu.edu/llu/health/cancer.html

Rosemary

Hey Bob!

Thanks for the ariticle and I'm so glad your Doctor said that. I wish my doc had said that, cause that is what I've been thinking about my own situation.

I have not touched red meat (Pig or Cow) in almost 30 years and have maintained a high fiber, low fat diet for as long as I can remember.

I haven't had to see a General Practioner in 10 or so years because of robust good health and treating myself with herbs and nutrition.

There are those who look at me askance, as if to say, "yeah, and maybe those herbs gave you cancer", but I think to myself "maybe those herbs is what saved me". But, you will never convince them of that!

I like your Doc!!!

Rosemary,
Well, I see diets high in animal fat and saturated fats linked to various cancers (even bladder cancer) as possible causes but nitrates and nitrites have been studied over and over for many years and don't seem to be linked. Of course one never knows for sure but here's an interesting article:
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950CE4D81438F932A25751C1A967948260

What's frustrating for me is that for the last 30 years I have been on a diet low in meat, saturated fat, and high in anit-oxidants, high fiber, lots of fruit and vegetables and fish, non fat dairy, regular excercise, etc. and I still get the tumor. Of course, the doc says: "Well, maybe it would have been worse if you didn't do all those things."
I guess it's like the song says: "It just goes to show you never can tell".

Bob P

I read this too - I just wonder if the same would apply for hog roasts in a bun??? Mind you I dont really eat too many of either and still managed to aqcquire BC.

Very interesting idea, Bob! I have read a little about the deactivization(?) of a tumor suppressing gene in relation to bladder cancer.

My aunt had kidney cancer.  She lived in the country and they raised pigs. What I remember about her was that she kept a lard (pig grease) bucket on the floor.  When she cooked biscuits she would scoop a handful of that lard into the flour.  She also added it to all her cooked vegetables.

When I remember my aunt, two things come to mind....kidney cancer and lard.

I have often wondered if there was a connection.

However, with the bacon issue, I wonder if it is the nitrites in bacon that is under suspicion and not the meat itself....?  :-/