PARIS — Eating processed meat can lead to
bowel cancer while red meat is also a cause of the disease, though less
likely, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said on Monday in
findings that could sharpen debate over the merits of a meat-based diet.
The
France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part
of the WHO, put processed meat such as hot dogs and ham in its group 1
list, which already includes tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes, for
which there is "sufficient evidence" of cancer links.
