Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: A higher rate of cancer deaths among those that handle and process meat is attributed to infection with viruses and chronic exposure to animal proteins. See the last video Poultry Exposure Tied to Liver and Pancreatic Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-exposure-tied-to-liver-and-pancreatic-cancer) for the data on poultry exposure and cancer deaths. Though exposure to farm animals growing up might be associated with cancer risk, what about growing up with dogs and cats? See Pets & Human Lymphoma (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pets-human-lymphoma/) and Are Cats or Dogs More Protective for Children's Health? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-cats-or-dogs-more-protective-for-childrens-health/) You still probably shouldn't eat them, though (see Foodborne Rabies, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/foodborne-rabies/). For more on foodborne illnesses one can contract from fellow animals, see, for example: • Yersinia in Pork (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/yersinia-in-pork/) • Poultry and Paralysis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-and-paralysis/) • MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mrsa-in-u-s-retail-meat/) • Amnesic Seafood Poisoning (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amnesic-seafood-poisoning/) • Avoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-chicken-to-avoid-bladder-infections/) • Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-poisoning-bacteria-cross-contamination/) • Salmonella in Chicken & Turkey: Deadly but Not Illegal (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/salmonella-in-chicken-turkey-deadly-but-not-illegal/) Probably the strangest example of this whole concept is the Neu5Gc story. A 7-part video series definitely worth checking out: 1. Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-as-an-autoimmune-disease/) 2. Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/clonal-selection-theory-of-immunity/) 3. Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/clonal-deletion-theory-of-immunity/) 4. The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-inflammatory-meat-molecule-neu5gc/) 5. How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-tumors-use-meat-to-grow-xeno-autoantibodies/) 6. Nonhuman Molecules Lining Our Arteries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nonhuman-molecules-lining-our-arteries/) 7. Meat May Exceed Daily Allowance of Irony (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-may-exceed-daily-allowance-of-irony/) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-outside-our-kingdom/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Farm Sanctuary and USDAgov via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: A competing risks analysis of the Harvard Nurse's Health Study compares the danger of smoking cigarettes to the danger of animal product consumption (cholesterol) and the benefits of plant foods (fiber) to the benefits of exercise. Similar comparisons have been made between the risk of smoking and eating processed meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prevention-is-better-than-cured-meat/), cell phone use and processed meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-cell-phones-cause-cancer/), and Hot Dogs & Leukemia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hot-dogs-leukemia/). Though healthy eating may help mediate the devastating effects of smoking [see Smoking Versus Kale Juice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/smoking-versus-kale-juice/), Preventing COPD With Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-copd-with-diet/), and Treating COPD With Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-copd-with-diet/)], if you do smoke, please stop. As a physician, I've just seen too many good people die horrible deaths from cigarettes. Please refer to NutritionFacts.org for 38 other videos on nuts (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/nuts/), 32 videos on exercise (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/exercise/), 25 videos on fiber (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fiber/), 5 videos on oats (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/oats/), and hundreds of videos on a thousand other topics at (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/). Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-women-should-eat-to-live-longer/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Geierunited, Mike Baird via Flickr, and Nillerdk via Wikimedia Commons. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org