Bacon, sausages and ham rank alongside smoking as cancer causes, says WHO

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67. Precisely. I decided the same many years ago too.

So many studies that say one thing now, another thing 10 years from now when they figure out where they went wrong in the first or second or third series of studies that we're all supposed to take so seriously.

My family and I live by science, but when it comes to health, the scientific community has struggled over and over and over again to define the effects of something done or eaten today on a human body constantly subject to innumerable uncontrollable factors over the next decade, let alone a life time. I appreciate when a preponderance of studies point to something - like smoking - that demonstrate an obvious link. I'm just not seeing it in so many other areas. Eat eggs, don't eat eggs, eat eggs. Eat bread, don't eat bread, oh, by the way, eat some bread. Rice will kill you, but rice is good for you. Drinking is bad, but drink some wine and have a little beer because it's good for you. Chocolate - oh no, except eat some chocolate because health. Drink lots of di-hydrogen-monoxide, oh, wait, that stuff will kill you.

There's only so much bullshit one can handle before the entire medical industrial complex is compromised and no one believes a freaking thing they say anymore. It's this kind of crap that feeds the anti-science, anti-vax crazies and gives them a peg leg upon which they can prop up their denial.

People who want to do the right thing are essentially left to their own devices.

I'm struggling to find a new doctor and get an overdue check-up, simply because I don't know if I can find one I can trust anymore.