• DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    23 hours ago

    Also what definition of “safe”.

    My grandpa eats at least one burger per week and he’s turning 90 next year. So obviously “safe” isn’t a measure of imminent and near term death?

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      12 hours ago

      I agree with you, but using a relative that does something unhealthy that got old to prove a point is not really scientific nor right.

      We absolutely know that smoking causes cancer is a really unhealthy habit, yet we see people that smoke reach very high age. However the average smoker lives a shorter life.

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        4 hours ago

        You’re right, its a suboptimal example.

        But I can conclude that its not so dangerous as to lead to imminent death / disability within 30 years. So how “unsafe” is eating processed meat anyway?

        The article makes like you’re doomed to develop colon cancer if you mom ever fed you a single bite of hamburger helper as a kid. Obviously, that’s a ridiculous conclusion.

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      13 hours ago

      As always, unsafe never means 100% chance to kill. Not wearing s seatbelt while driving is unsafe, but it doesn’t mean that you will not be able to survive to 90 is you’re lucky.