8. Foods that are highly salted, pickled, or smoked
These products typically contain preservatives, such as nitrates which are intend to make them look appealing for as long as possible. The additives used in processed food can pile up in your body over time and eventually damage the cellular levels and lead to cancer. Smoked fods are even worse fo you, when they are cooked in high temperatures, the nitrates are converted to the much more dangerous kind of nitrites.
Although nitrates do not cause cancer of themselves, under certain conditions these chemicals can chance inside of your body into N-nitroso composites. These composites are associated with a great increase of the risk of developing cancer. There are an overwhelming amount of studies that show that eating these types of food will greatly increase the risk of colorectal cancer and stomach cancer.
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