American doctors call for stopping sausages in school meals

Very popular because of its delicious taste and convenience, but this fast food is silently harming children's health without parents knowing. Doctors have to speak up to warn.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture should stop distributing hot dogs and other processed meats containing carcinogens in the National School Lunch Program.

That was the main content of the petition that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization with 12,000 members, sent to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on October 27 last year.

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

Hot dogs are the most favorite food of American students.

"Eating a hot dog a day could send kids to an early grave. Processed meats like hot dogs can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and various cancers.

Therefore, eliminating sausages and other processed meats from students' breakfast and lunch menus is the right move.

Like cigarettes, hot dogs should be labeled with warnings about their health risks, said Susan Levin, a nutritionist at PCRM.

Not only have 12,000 PCRM doctors spoken out about the dangers of hot dogs, a favorite food of children around the world, but many other doctors in the US have also sounded the alarm about this food.

They are calling on parents to stop feeding their children hot dogs. Here are the reasons they gave.

Processed meats like sausages can increase your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and various cancers.

Reasons why American doctors urge children to stop eating hot dogs

1. Sausages contain carcinogens

The Association of Physicians for Responsible Medicine had to write a "petition" to the US Department of Agriculture after the World Health Organization declared that salted and processed meats such as hot dogs, bacon, sausages and ham cause cancer.

And sausages are on the list of top carcinogens along with alcohol, tobacco, asbestos and arsenic. Eating one sausage a day can increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 21%.

Nitrites are used as preservatives in sausages, mainly to prevent poisoning. During cooking, nitrites combine with natural amines in meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds.

2. Sausages are made from industrial meat

Eating hot dogs means your child is indirectly "ingesting" these antibiotics and growth-stimulating hormones.

Most sausages sold on the market today are made from ground meat from cows, pigs, and chickens raised on industrial farms, using a lot of antibiotics and hormones to fight disease and stimulate rapid growth.

Eating sausages means your child is indirectly "eating" these antibiotics and growth-stimulating hormones. As a result, children may become resistant to antibiotics, have early puberty...

3. Sausages contain a lot of fat and salt

We often have the habit of eating sausages in our daily meals to supplement protein. But in fact, the protein content in sausages is very low while saturated fat and salt are high.

Every 100g of sausage is equivalent to 290 calories and contains up to 26g of fat. This amount of fat accounts for 40% of the body's fat needs in 1 day.

If children eat a lot of sausages, they will have excess fat and develop many dangerous diseases such as obesity, heart disease, blood pressure...

One sausage contains up to 600mg of sodium, which is nearly half of the recommended daily intake of salt. Meanwhile, potassium only provides 4% of the body's potassium needs for the entire day.

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

According to Young Knowledge