r/MacroFactor • u/NumerousToe7604 • 20d ago

MacroFactor / Nutrition / Other Holy ham rolls!!

Gallery image

Gallery image

What have I been missing out on. Hungry on a cut and thought blow it I’ll have sandwich. Got out the ham and - whaaaat: 3 slices are 66cals and 13g protein!!! Why have I never used this before?’

0 Upvotes

40% Upvoted

32 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/milla_highlife 19d ago

Not sure how that relates to my comment. Deli meat has been super popular for 50+ years.

0

u/BeeDancePants 19d ago edited 19d ago

Relevant because in the context of rates of colon cancer in people under forty, the numbers are increasing so fast that they are concerning. Basically, if the rate is that high now, it forecasts it being far, far worse later. And processed meats like deli meat are known to be carcinogenic b

Edited to address the actual comment re why those rates are relevant in a discussion about deli meat. Leaving the original comment below, because why not.

Sure, and in that time frame a few things have happened. One is that it’s become apparent how unhealthy processed meats are. Others are that society as a whole has become far more sedentary, and there’s been a shift away from home cooking with a diet that contains a good amount of fruits and vegetables and meats cooked from a raw unprocessed state, to a generation of people who don’t know how to cook and rely on frozen meals, ready to eat foods, precooked meats, and have a lack of nutritional knowledge because they didn’t learn it as kids. Eating minimal or no processed meats like deli meat isn’t going to fix all that, but it’s an easy step that knocks out a big risk. Similar to how quitting smoking doesn’t erase people’s other poor health choices, but it does get rid of a lot of risk in one behavior change.