Flutterby™! : Processed meat and mortality

ABC News: New Study Slams Processed Meat, apparently riffs on BMC Medicine: Meat consumption and mortality - results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

The results of our analysis support a moderate positive association between processed meat consumption and mortality, in particular due to cardiovascular diseases, but also to cancer.

So, assuming that like me you've passed the age when accident is a large risk factor, unless you want to die of dementia eat more bacon.

Although I haven't read either thoroughly, and the article says that:

In addition to diet, lifestyle factors also came into play, researchers found. The data showed that people who ate processed meat the most were also more likely to live unhealthy lifestyles, such as not exercising and smoking. They also ate the fewest fruit and vegetables and drank more alcohol.

So eat more veggies with your bacon, and run more, too.