Can't find the study, which is remarkable considering how widely it's already being reported, but even from a casual inspection it looks like the BACON IS COMING TO GET YOU headlines are probably misleadingpic.twitter.com/ISYSY2nxFl
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2,609 cancers in 500,000 people doesn't give you much confidence in a 20% increased risk, sadlypic.twitter.com/KQbxoUhRCE
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Also, this was done using the UK Biobank study - which is a cohort of 95% white people - so if you're not the average UK citizen it might not apply to you anyway
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But even if you're in the UK, eating a bunch of bacon a day is only going to raise your risk of bowel cancer by 0.1%, so it's not nearly as scary as some of the headlines imply
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It's the sort of thing that's very meaningful to population researchers, but not to individuals Think about it - ~70 million people in the UK If 5 million of them eat an extra rasher of bacon a day that's 5,000 cancers, which is a lot
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Conversely, for you as an individual, the risk is realistically negligible, even though it's 20% higher
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