Category Archives: Carers

Daily consumption of bacon and other red meat products can raise cancer rates

January 13, 2012   Cancer, Carers, health

Bacon linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer, says report

Study claims eating two rashers or one sausage a day can increase threat of contracting disease by nearly 20%

 

Daily consumption of bacon and other red meat products can raise cancer rates, according to the study.

Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19% and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said.

Eating 50g of processed meat every day – the equivalent to one sausage or two rashers of bacon – increases the risk by 19%, compared to people who do not eat processed meat at all.

For people consuming double this amount of processed meat (100g), the increased risk jumps to 38%, and is 57% for those eating 150g a day. But experts cautioned that the overall risk of pancreatic cancer was relatively low – in the UK, the lifetime risk of developing the disease is one in 77 for men and one in 79 for women.

Nevertheless, the disease is deadly – it is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage and kills 80% of people in under a year. Only 5% of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis.

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Half price therapies for carers

January 12, 2012   Carers, Scotland

Half price therapies for carers

Published Thursday 12th January 2012

Carers and family members who provide care are being offered half price therapies.

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Welfare Reform Bill

January 12, 2012   benefits, Carers, disability

‘We won’t go back to the work house’

By · January 12, 2012 at 10:00 am ·
Protesters outside the House of Lords on 11 January

‘We won’t go back to the work house’ – a melodramatic slogan maybe, but one that captures the sense that many feel, that the Welfare Reform Bill, currently going through its first reading in the House of Lords before becoming law next month, represents a major step in the dismantling of state welfare, a return to a darker, pre-Beveridge age of a ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor.

Certainly it was a slogan that summed up the feelings of those gathered opposite the House of Lords on Wednesday, many of them living with disabilities, single parents and carers, a coalition of the dispossessed who feel victimised by the Bill.

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