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Podcast: Health Declassified
Episode: Are Sausages Secretly Bad For You?
Description: Kathleen looks into the dangers of Sodium Nitrite in processed meat products. Peter explains how the use of hearing aids can delay the onset of dementia. We talk about our guest lineup for the next 6 weeks and our featured author.
Kathleen’s Deep Dive
There are consequences to eating processed meats like bacon, ham and hotdogs! Sodium nitrite which is the chemical that creates artificial pink colouring in processed meats is linked to colorectal cancer. The American Meat Institute successfully blocked a 1970s nitrite ban citing huge economic impacts and research in nitrites has since been censored...