Luckily in Oz Drs are not allowed to advertise and nor are drug companies allowed to advertise specific drugs, just the company and their logo. So we aren't bombarded. I'm lucky too that my dr isn't a "script for everything" dr, and has reduced the amt of meds I was taking which I'm really grateful for.

The stuff I read in the news like the "red cold cut meats" possibly causing cancer is a story about nitrates and nitrites which are preservatives and flavour enhancers. They are forerunners to another compound which enhances the growth of tumours in a number of organs. But this study was done on animals with much smaller systems to be affected than humans.

It is like comparing the system of a flea to that of a small dog, the size difference is incomparable. Also humans have had many hundreds of years to acclimatise many different substances into the body, and preserved red cold meat is not in an animals regular diet anyway.

Out of a vast number of people only a certain number of them will get cancer but if it is in the family then there is a higher possibility of contacting it. My grandmother on my mums side died of cancer, I've had it and my sister has had it twice. BUT we've all had depression and anxiety too as well as phobias...with mum it is the phone I'm polyphobic and my sister has a phobia of police.

In this study however they found no cancer relative to hamburger, bacon and sausage meat whereas other studies have consistently said that red meat has cancer causing protperties...it makes me think that this study was commissioned by a hamburger retailer in order to encourage people to eat hamburgers rather than homemade sandwiches for lunch...

They ALL pay for studies which are favourable to their own desires...and that is how much research is funded so there are few of these studies which can be relied upon for unbiased truth