The Hot Dog. Not So "Hot" After All

I came across these statistics regarding hot dogs and cured or smoked meats in "The Encyclopedia Of Healing Foods"  (Michael Murray N.D.). Scary.

• " Children who eat twelve hot dogs per month have nearly ten times the risk of developing leukemia as children who do not eat hot dogs.

• Children who eat hot dogs once a week double their chances of developing brain tumors; eating them twice a week triples the risk.

• Pregnant women who eat two servings per day of any cured meat have more than double the risk of bearing children who have brain cancer.

• Children who eat the most ham, bacon and sausage have three times the risk of developing lymphoma. 

• Children who eat ground meat once a week have twice the risk of acute lymphocytic leukemia as those who eat none; eating two or more hamburgers weekly triples the risk. "