American doctors call for a ban on a favorite dish of children around the world, including Vietnam

It is a favorite dish by many people because of its attractive taste, but recently, 12,000 American doctors have voiced a warning about their danger to health.

The American doctor called to stop giving sausages to the students' lunch

The US Department of Agriculture should stop distributing sausages as well as processed meats containing carcinogens to the US National School Lunch Program.

That was the main content of the application that the Medical Committee of the Physician Committee (PCRM), a nonprofit organization with members of 12,000 doctors, sent to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the day. October 27 last year.

Accordingly, all doctors asked the Department of Agriculture to stop offering schools to buy or sponsor sausages for students' meals.

Sausage is the favorite dish of American students.

"Eating a sausage every day can get younger children to the grave earlier. Prepared meats like sausages can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and different types of cancer.

Therefore, removing sausages as well as other processed meats from the student's breakfast and lunch menu is the right direction.

Like cigarettes and sausages, they should be labeled as dangerous for human health, "said Susan Levin, PCRM nutritionist.

Not only did 12,000 PCRM doctors speak about the dangers of sausages, children's favorite food around the world, but many other doctors in the United States also raised a warning bell about this food.

They urge parents to stop giving their children to eat sausages. And these are the reasons they have given.

Sausages are also included in the list of top carcinogens.

The reasons why American doctors call children to stop eating sausages

1. Sausages contain carcinogens

The Medical Committee of Physicians responsible for medicine must write a "petition" form to the US Department of Agriculture after the World Health Organization declares that ready-to-cook and salted meats such as sausages and bacon. , sausages and ham cause cancer.

And sausages are also included in the list of top carcinogens along with alcohol, cigarettes, asbestos and arsenic. The habit of eating a sausage daily can increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 21%.

In sausages, Nitrite is used as a preservative, primarily to combat poisoning. During cooking, nitrite combines with natural amines in meat to form a carcinogenic N-nitroso compound.

2. Sausages are processed from industrial meat

The current sausage is made from meat of animals raised in industrial farms .

Most of the hot dogs currently on the market are made from pureed meat from cows, pigs, and chickens that are raised in industrial farms, using a lot of antibiotics and hormones to fight disease and irritation. rapid growth.

Eating sausages, means your child is indirectly "eating" these growth-promoting antibiotics and hormones. Consequently, children can be resistant to antibiotics, precocious puberty .

3. Sausages are high in fat and salt

We often have the habit of eating sausages during daily meals to supplement protein. But the actual amount of protein in sausages is very low while saturated fats and salts are high.

Each 100g of sausage is equivalent to 290 calories and contains up to 26g of fat. This fat accounts for up to 40% of the body's fat needs in a day.

If you eat a lot of sausages, your child will have excess fat and produce many dangerous diseases such as obesity, heart disease, blood pressure .

100g sausage contains up to 26g fat.

A sausage contains up to 600mg of sodium, which is about half the amount of salt recommended daily. Meanwhile, potassium only provides 4% of the body's potassium needs throughout the day.

Too much salt combined with an imbalance between sodium salts and potassium salts can cause adverse health effects such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, excess salt leading to edema, water retention in the body .