**Video**: "Enjoy Your BACON! The Nitrate/Nitrite Cancer Scare Destroyed!"

468,738views Sep 9, 2018

**Affirmation**
KenDBerryMD
2 years ago

"There is NO meaningful research, not a single RCT, showing that the nitrates/nitrites from processed meat increase cancer-risk in Humans. NONE at all..."


**Comment**
maltipaws
2 years ago
"Nitrates are not the issue, it’s when nitrites and secondary amines form nitrosamines.
You never mention the incident in Norway in the 70’s wherein farm animals were fed with fish that had been preserved with sodium nitrite, 
which reacted with the dimethylamine  in the fish to form dimethylnitrosamine - a known carcinogen. 
Look at the epidemiological evidence concerning nitrosamine formation and tumor formation."

**Answer**
KenDBerryMD
2 years ago
"Yep, I read all about that. The nitrites formed in your mouth (at hundreds of times the level of the amount of processed meat you eat)
can be converted to nitrosamines, right?
And the nitrates from veggies (at least 80% of your nitrate intake) are converted to nitrites as well, which can also be converted to nitrosamines, right? So..."


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