Today I had, to have, my annual Addenbrooke's 'Check Up'....I have one every year😋. Everything seems OK, the Consultant, re-checked the blood pressure result- from that 'stupid' automatic machine (found to be 142, over 70....not 150, over 83🙈). She ordered a 'Series of blood tests', but doesn't expect any problem.
Afterwards I went into their Café, the one run by the Welfare Association, and I had a lovely Bacon Roll. My Mother, who was with me, has food allergies- thus she, ended up with.....A gluten free...Bacon French Stick. This had been cut, into two, she ate one half- plus maybe a quarter, of the second one then....gave, the rest, to me😄. The bacon was, absolutely Beautiful, too😀😁😃😄😁✔✔.
Overall, I think, I did quite well there👍.
As one Ball, said to the other....'Loves All Round🤢
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I find it very difficult to believe in this day and age that hospitals are still selling meat, especially processed meats like bacon. This is a hospital after all!
I hope you live a happy and long life, but to consume known carcinogens simply increases your risk of cancer. Sadly cancer takes at least a decade of doubling and doubling through your body before modern science can detect it.
There is a, very strange, 'thing' regarding us Humans....Namely that we are Omnivores- meaning that our 'Digestive System, is Designed, to digest BOTH Vegetable, and Meat. Some people, like myself for example, have suggested that this IS for a 'reason'. If a 'Dual Fuel' vehicle does Not have gas, it can run, but with less Flexibility- it will be more expensive to run, than using Both fuels. Now, I AM aware that we are Not Cars, we can however 'Run' on, more than one, fuel source. Do you see what I'm 'Getting At' andyswarbs?
Please don't, get me wrong, here....I Respect, Your Right, to be Vegan (Vegetarian) and also, absolutely Fully Support, your Ethical Stand. This, clearly is, something you feel strongly about.….
I however, having the same Rights as yourself, AM a Meat Eater. I don't 'Ram This' down Everybody's Throat though, nor do I seek to change the opinion of others. I DO perhaps Contest the statement that 'Sadly cancer takes at least a decade of doubling and doubling through your body before modern science can detect it'. In actual fact, Modern Scanning Methods, can detect Cancers at a Very 'Low Level' indeed. Mammograms, for example, can detect 'Pre-Cancerous Cell Changes' early enough to Prevent most Cancers even developing.
Whilst I DON'T seek to, in any way, 'Cross Swords' with you andyswabs I am, from my own point of view, explaining My Position. As regards your question, about 'Hospitals Still Serving Bacon, In This Day And Age'....The answer is 'Because People Like It'.
I hope that I haven't offended you andysward, we ALL have different opinions, after all.
Research shows that mammograms have considerable false positives. Here is just one paper on the subject ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/247.... So I am not sure they are a detection system to use as a good example of cancer detection.
That said, perhaps I was out by 10 years for breast cancer. A woman will already have had cancer for up to 5 years before it can be felt by the human hand. That's not my opinion, but that of
oregon.providence.org/forms... which states "Breast cancer has to divide 30 times before it can be felt. Up to the 28th cell division, neither you nor your doctor can detect it by hand. With most breast cancers, each division takes one to two months, so by the time you can feel a cancerous lump, the cancer has been in your body for two to five years."
That said, being male I don't expect you have a high risk of breast cancer. processed meat consumption is more associated with bowel cancer.
Bowel cancer is a higher risk. gutscharity.org.uk/advice-a... states, "The development of a bowel cancer from a polyp may take between five and ten years, and early on there may be no symptoms at all."
Whatever no-one wants cancer. And sadly the best detection still cannot detect it when you really want it - which is reliable detection in year one.
Today there is yet another animal rights exposure. This time of bacon produced in Holland showing pigs systematically being boiled alive in a supposed "high-welfare abbatoir" and swimming to try to escape. I won't post the link here because it really is too horrendous.
(If anyone wants the link to the video and story please sent me a private message. )
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