Doctors: Hot Dogs Are as Bad as Cigarettes

A newfangled release by the non - profit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says the processed meat in blistering dogs carries a cancer risk on equation with fag , USA Today report . True ? Well , there ’s something you should know about the PCRM first .

Although hot cad are by all odds not the epicurean snack of the health conscious vanguard — and pack a blaze of a lot of Na , which all doctors agree is dangerous — most DoC still think click in moderation are fine . Just like most other matter that are bad for you .

But the PCRM is n’t just a mathematical group of doctor . They ’ve vex an openly pro - vegan agenda . Which is n’t amiss . But they ’ve also been repeatedly accused by the American Medical Association of distorting the facts as a means of promoting this agenda . Which is wrong .

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Telling Americans to eat few hot pawl is a ripe matter . Less sodium signify less heart disease . But equating a baseball bite with an inhaled consignment of toxin — and say dog-iron should express coffin nail - style warning labels — seems to fall in the probably a distortion of the facts family .

Now the PCRM is n’t just get this all up . The World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research have line up that the march nub found in foods like hot dogs can increase your risk of colorectal cancer by 21%—if you rust a hot dog literally every single daylight . Which , Christ , I really hope you are n’t , for a variety of reasons . [ USA Today ]

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