Ep. 153 Hot Dogs and Nitrates

Petri Dish

Happy 4th of July to all our listeners in the USA! In honor of the holiday, we're doing an episode on hot dogs and other cured meats, specifically regarding the health impacts of nitrates/nitrites!

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References:

• https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/23/nitrites-ham-bacon-cancer-risk-additives-meat-industry-confidential--report
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017213/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4550318/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956713506000090
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00543808/document
• https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat
• https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer
• https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/nitrate
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901412/