International Agency for Research on Cancer
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Oct 31, 2026
Ali EssigHOST
Dairy intake is going to be a big one, especially when it comes to cheese, because it's not just dairy, it's cheese and like it's saturated fat and dairy are this a double whammy.
Ali EssigHOST
Okay, so what does the World Health Organization say? And what is the International Agency for Research on Cancer say? It's not just like what I'm thinking or what I'm drawn toward the idiom.
Ali EssigHOST
I really want to know what does the research say? What is the biggest organizations in the world say about what you should eat in cancer? What's their stance on animal-based And they're pretty clear.
Ali EssigHOST
So processed meats have been given a group one classification, meaning they are known to cause cancer, specifically colon cancer.
MeganHOST
Okay.
MeganHOST
So the IARC rates things group one to group four.
MeganHOST
Group one, it's carcinogenic to humans.
MeganHOST
Group 2A, it's like probably carcinogenic.
MeganHOST
Right.
MeganHOST
So anyway, again, this classification of 2B really just means that there's some indication there could be a potential link, but the evidence is not definitive.
MeganHOST
You know what? If you go by these IARC ratings, what they deem to be as carcinogenic as aspartame.
MeganHOST
Oh, tell me.
Kristy BrownGUEST
So the data that we have to date is largely based on a seminal study that was published about 10 years ago.
Kristy BrownGUEST
And this was a study that was undertaken by the International Agency for Cancer Research.
Kristy BrownGUEST
This is a subsidiary of the World Health Organization.
Kristy BrownGUEST
What they did in that study is they evaluated the strength of the evidence linking obesity to the development of any kind of cancer.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
I guess the only other concern would be cancer.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
And you mentioned that World Health Organization, you may have mentioned, and IARC.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
I find it interesting now we've got this big blowback on aspartame.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
IARC came out and said that aspartame was associated with cancer risk.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
What's your read on that? Well, my read is that they look at mouse studies with huge doses, and it's not their job to look at doses.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
Do you know what the relative, how much a human would have had to have consumed three and a half cases of Dr. Pepper? It was
Dave FarinaHOST
The legacy compounds PFOA and PFOS are routinely detected at higher concentrations in human serum than any other PFAS variants.
Dave FarinaHOST
This high systemic prevalence is concerning given their recent carcinogenic classifications by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which designated PFOA as a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning carcinogenic to humans, and PFOS as a Group 2b carcinogen, meaning possibly carcinogenic to humans.
Dave FarinaHOST
Various PFAS remediation strategies have been developed, but the vast scale and complex matrix of contaminated media present challenges.
Dave FarinaHOST
While contaminated water can be actively routed through localized treatment infrastructure, soil contamination remains more difficult due to the immobilization of PFAS within the soil, slowly entering the groundwater over time.
Sandy JollesHOST
I did want to say that.
Sandy JollesHOST
But the International Agency for Research on Cancer does classify extremely low frequency magnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans, largely because of childhood leukemia findings.
Sandy JollesHOST
These findings concern low frequency magnetic fields, not ordinary Wi-Fi radio frequency exposure.
Sandy JollesHOST
So this is very interesting, right? And again, it's an association, not a demonstrated causal effect.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
I guess the only other concern would be cancer.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
You mentioned that World Health Organization, you may have mentioned, and IARC.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
I find it interesting now, we've got this big blowback on aspartame.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
IARC came out and said that aspartame was associated with cancer risk.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
What's your read on that? Well, my read is that they look at mouse studies with huge doses, and it's not their job to look at doses.
Stan EfferdingGUEST
Do you know
Gary DeMatteiHOST
Now, if the ethics don't spook you, let's try the science.
Gary DeMatteiHOST
In 2015, the World Health Organization's Cancer Research Agency, IARC, reviewed the evidence in classified processed meat, so bacon, hot dogs, sausage, deli slices.
Gary DeMatteiHOST
as carcinogenic to humans that's their group one red meat they classified as probably carcinogenic group 2a
Caryn HartglassHOST
and that sounds terrifying let's be fair with what it means group one describes how strong the evidence is that something can cause cancer it does not describe how big the risk is tobacco is in that group too but the size of the risk is nowhere near the same
EugenePANELIST
So if you look at the country with this outlook, you need to be very, very, very, very careful.
EugenePANELIST
When you look at Ghana, for example, according to the IARC, the Global Cancer Observer, they talk about 5,000 cases every year since 2022.
EugenePANELIST
5,000 to 7,000.
DaveHOST
5,000 to 7,000.
Eric BergHOST
This is what they said in the study.
Eric BergHOST
It says the World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer has indicated that consumption of red meat, probably carcinogenic to humans, whereas processed meat is considered carcinogenic to humans.
Eric BergHOST
These recommendations are, however, primarily based on observational studies that are at high risk for confounding and thus are limited in establishing causal inferences.
Eric BergHOST
Nor do they report the absolute magnitude of any possible effects.
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