{"id":250,"date":"2008-08-29T00:35:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:16:21","slug":"hot-dogs-take-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/hot-dogs-take-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Dogs Take a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

…in a new ad campaign by\u00a0a vegetarian-oriented\u00a0research group, \u00a0The Cancer Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oPaxW3BrgIY]<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the ad has touched a lot of\u00a0nerves, from the National Hot Dog and Sausage\u00a0Council<\/a> to the American Cancer Society<\/a>, which beat a quick retreat from the controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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However, other nutritionists have stepped in to defend the hot dog. “My concern about this campaign is it’s giving the indication that the occasional hot dog in the school lunch is going to increase cancer risk,” said Colleen Doyle, the American Cancer Society’s nutrition director. “An occasional hot dog isn’t going to increase that risk.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The occasional hot dog?\u00a0 Probably not…but then again, that isn’t necessarily what we’re talking about here.\u00a0 Personally, I think this is a bit cowardly on the part of the ACS.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s completely fair to say that the ad is<\/strong> alarmist…it features kids, after all and – in reality – colorectal cancer in children is actually quite rare.\u00a0 According to the National Cancer Institute, the incidence is\u00a0one in a milliion\u00a0(younger than 20 years old)\u00a0in the United States annually, and is usually linked to family history\/heredity.\u00a0 The tag line at the end of the ad, “…can lead to adult<\/strong> cancers” doesn’t really clarify things either, since most people diagnosed with the disease are in their 50’s and 60’s<\/a>.\u00a0 Thus, the link between childhood consumption of processed meats and adult cancer is more than a little fuzzy.<\/p>\n

Know what?\u00a0 I don’t care.\u00a0 While I’m no vegetarian, I’m also no fan of hot dogs: roughly 80% of the calories in your typical wiener come from fat…basically, it’s a\u00a0cylinder of\u00a0seasoned,\u00a0meat-flavored grease.\u00a0 One of my buds\u00a0from graduate school went to work in a local firm that made processed meats and quit after 3 months in disgust –\u00a0after seeing how they were made, she swore\u00a0she’d\u00a0never eat another hot dog again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other words, I can’t think of anything positive about them, nutritionally speaking.\u00a0 They’re just nasty.\u00a0 And they’d still be nasty even if there wasn’t a strong correlation between increased risk of colorectal cancer and intake of processed meats<\/a>.\u00a0 Thus, while this ad may be over-the-top, it may just make kids – and their parents – think a little more about the connection between diet and long-term health.\u00a0 From where I sit, that can’t be bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…in a new ad campaign by\u00a0a vegetarian-oriented\u00a0research group, \u00a0The Cancer Project. [youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oPaxW3BrgIY] According to the Associated Press, the ad has touched a lot of\u00a0nerves, from the National Hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[401,502,892,1329,1630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}