Why bacon sandwiches are bad for your brain

 Processed meat has been linked to an increased risk of developing dementia. So what foods should you eat and what should you avoid? By Peta Bee

A bacon sandwich may be off the menu after researchers suggested this week  eating as little as 25g of processed meat a day — equivalent to a single rasher — is associated with a 44 per cent increased risk of developing dementia.

It’s not the first time that meat has been associated with an increased risk of age-related cognitive decline but previous studies had failed to determine which types of meat might be more harmful than others. “They had mostly investigated the consumption of total meat or just used the general term ‘meat’ rather than specifying meat types as we were able to do in our analysis,” says Huifeng Zhang from the University of Leeds who led the study, which used data from 500,000

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Why bacon sandwiches are bad for your brain