Bad news for bacon lovers, your favorite breakfast food may give you cancer.
The Guardian just published a study confirming the results from a report released in 2015. In that study, the World Health Organization found eating a few pieces of bacon a day over a lifetime increases the risk of getting colon cancer by 18 percent.
The guardian adding consuming processed meats causes an additional 34,000 cancer-related deaths each year.
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