Red meat

Hi Jon

you are no doubt troubled by the negative reports on processed foods.  This scaremongering does annoy me a bit because every day we are told what's good or bad for our health, and quite often they contradict each other, so we don't know where we stand.  I think your intake so far probably has been a bit excessive, but that doesn't mean you are going to get cancer.  I am an ageing lady now, never smoked, ver occasional glass of wine, good diet and exercised but I still got bowel cancer.  You are now approaching your adult years you can be in control of your diet, and I am sure as long as it is well balanced you will be fine.  Eating everything in moderation, including bacon,sausages is not going to do you harm.

i think getting cancer a lot of the time is just bad luck.  Of course we can all cut down the risks to reduce the chance.

You sound a very sensible person, and I think from now on you will have a very healthy lifestyle.  Please don't smoke, my dear father was a very heavy smoker and died of lung cancer at an early age, as I suppose many others have done for the same reason.

i wish you along and healthy life, enjoy your 'occasional' bacon sarnies and all the other things you like, but from today just as them as treats.

Good luck

Margaret

I ate little in the way of processed meats but still wound up with bowel cancer in my late 70s!  Many factors influence whether or not you suffer from cancer, diet is just one of them and not necessarily the most important.  As Margret says, all things in moderation is the best approach.