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Processed foods are increasingly under more and more of a spotlight, specifically with regards to their affects on our health. Experts now weigh in on processed meats and which ones are the worst for us, as the World Health Organization says those very foods cause cancer. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00 Processed foods are increasingly under more and more of a spotlight, specifically with
00:04 regards to their effects on our health.
00:06 Now, experts weigh in on processed meats and which ones are the worst for us, as the World
00:10 Health Organization says those very foods cause cancer.
00:14 Dietician at the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Human Nutrition, Kirsten Patruzzi, tells
00:18 USA Today, "Processed foods include more types of meats than you might imagine.
00:22 While any meat with chemical additives is certainly processed, by definition it also
00:26 includes any that have been fermented, cured, or smoked to increase shelf life or flavor."
00:31 Dr. Donald Hensroot of the Mayo Clinic also told USA Today that since red meat is already
00:36 worse for you than, say, chicken or fish, processed red meats could pose a greater health
00:40 risk as well.
00:41 And all of this lines up with an analysis by the International Agency for Research on
00:44 Cancer Working Group from 2015, which looked at 800 independent studies related to processed
00:49 meats from around the globe.
00:51 In particular, their findings suggested an increased risk for colorectal and stomach
00:55 cancer and that the more processed meats consumed, the higher the probability those cancers became.
01:00 But the question remains, why does it increase those risks?
01:04 Experts say that in the same way smoke can cause cancer in lungs, smoke preservation
01:07 methods can do the same to the digestive tract.
01:10 In addition, preservation chemicals such as nitrates and nitrites are often used in processed
01:15 meats.
01:16 Compounds more recent studies have shown can increase not just digestive tract issues,
01:19 but also increase the chances of breast and prostate cancers as well.
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