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Investigative journalist and author Lucie Morris-Marr was in the best shape of her life when she received a shocking stage-four bowel cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt fit, happy\u2014my book had just launched. Then everything stopped,\u201d she told Nine to Noon<\/em>. \u201cIt felt like my identity got cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n While undergoing treatment, Lucie began researching bowel cancer and was alarmed to learn that the World Health Organization (WHO)<\/strong> classifies processed meats<\/strong>\u2014like bacon, ham, and sausages\u2014as Group 1 carcinogens<\/strong>, the same category as tobacco and alcohol.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t think I ate much processed meat,\u201d she admitted. \u201cBut then I remembered the prosciutto on charcuterie boards, bacon at Christmas, pepperoni pizza\u2026 it was part of my diet.\u201d<\/p>\n WHO warns that eating just 50g of processed meat per day<\/strong>\u2014about two slices of bacon\u2014raises your bowel cancer risk by 18%<\/strong>. These meats contain nitrates and nitrites<\/strong>, which can turn harmful during cooking or digestion. They\u2019re also high in salt and fat, raising the risk for heart disease and high blood pressure.<\/p>\n Lucie doesn’t claim processed meat caused<\/em> her cancer, but says it\u2019s \u201cdefinitely in the frame.\u201d She feels there should have been more warnings.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not trying to scare people,\u201d she says, \u201cbut someone needs to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Her message is clear: even a favorite sandwich can have long-term consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Investigative journalist and author Lucie Morris-Marr was in the best shape of her life when she received a shocking stage-four bowel cancer diagnosis. \u201cI felt fit, happy\u2014my book had just launched. Then everything stopped,\u201d she told Nine to Noon. \u201cIt felt like my identity got cancelled.\u201d While undergoing treatment, Lucie began researching bowel cancer …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}