WCBS CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley October 26, 2015
Eating red meat likely does the same. After todays report by the world health organization, every one seemed to be asking how great is that risk . So we asked dr. Jon lapook. The who committee has placed processed peat like hot dogs and ham in the same cancer risk category as tobacco but the amount of increased risk is nowhere near the same. Lifetime risk of getting colon cancer is 5 . Eating the equivalent of one hot dog a day raises that to about 6 . By comparison, one study found the lifetime risk of lung cancer is 1. 3 in male nonsmokers, and about 17 in smokers. The evidence was strongest...