Eating too much bacon and drinking beer may increase a person's risk of developing cancer of the stomach. These two are said to be linked to the deadly disease for the first time.
Mirror reported that the study conducted by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has discovered that people who consume three or more alcoholic drinks and eat two slices of bacon or more are more prone to developing stomach cancer. It explained that this is equivalent to daily alcohol consumption and 45 to 50 g of processed meat.
The WCRF discovered that these factors increase the risk of stomach cancer just like obesity and being overweight. It was also revealed in the study that salting food like fish and vegetables could also be strongly linked to developing cancer.
"Processed meat is meat that has been preserved by smoking, curing or salting, or by the addition of preservatives," the WCRF was quoted by Mirror as saying. "Examples include ham, bacon, pastrami and salami, as well as hot dogs and some sausages."
According to Health.com, the WCRF said that seven cases of stomach cancer in the United States could be prevented if people avoided bacon and alcoholic drinks. It added that almost 4,000 people are diagnosed with stomach cancer every year in the country.
"This is the first report to find strong evidence of these links," American Institute for Cancer Research's Alice Bender said. "There are things we can do to lower our risk for cancer. There are choices we make every day that can make a difference."
It was added in the same report that stomach cancer is the fifth most common cancer around the world and third most common cause of cancer-related deaths. The survival rate of the disease in five years is also low at 25 percent to 28 percent.
Males, as per Health.com, are also advised to be cautious with what they eat and drink since they are more prone to develop this disease than women. Older people also tend to develop this type of cancer which usually gets detected during its late stages.
