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The British banger(sausage)under attack.

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Is eating a pork sausage a day bad for you? In his regular column, Michael Blastland puts claims this week that it causes heart disease and diabetes through the Go Figure risk-o-meter.

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Out of the frying pan into the dock? To be a sausage this week was to stand accused - yet again - of crimes against health. Pity the pork farmer.

Most media coverage failed, again, to give us the information we needed

About three years ago, evidence appeared to suggest that sausages were associated with colorectal cancer; this week, it was coronary heart disease.

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