Health effects associated with consumption of processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids: a Burden of Proof study

Study title… CNN title is only about meat.

A meta-analysis of observational epidemiology

All of the issues with epidemiology apply

• association is not causation
• hypothesis generating only
• healthy user confounders
• people eating meat are often eating high carbohydrate diets
• metabolic context of the participants
• food frequency questionnaires filled out yearly or every 4 years.

I don’t have access to the paper, it hasn’t made it to the Free Academic circles yet, so I haven’t been able to read it.

Per the article, they’re still not certain if it’s the added nitrites in the meat that are the problem, but if you’re looking to avoid them, I know Aldi sells nitrite-free hot dogs and bacon.