mrs preston martin. yes and sometimes you got some strange t.v. . discoveries on processed meats the researcher was the victim of a number of attacks but she agreed to look back at her work which showed up link between the excessive beating of hot dogs and certain rare cancers in children. how did you find a relationship. well just the way we always did when we did case control studies we started out with a group of children who had leukemia and compared them to group children who didn't have leukemia and we asked the mothers about what they fed the children and sure enough the kids with. what did you think when you saw this strong relationship because it was quite a it was with dogs i was a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment which is what the stew and they find something they don't expect. from that moment on the food industrialists susan preston martin became public enemy number one. and the meat lobby they definitely didn't like what we were doing they were terribly upset and i could understand that you know their livelihood was mak

mrs preston martin. yes and sometimes you go son french t.v. . was the victim of a number of attacks but she agreed to look back at her work. between the excessive eating of hot dogs and certain cancers in children. how did you find relationship. well just the way we always did when we did case control studies we started out with a group of. because it was she was with i was a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment. something they don't expect. from that moment where the food industrialists. became public enemy number one. and the meat lobby they definitely didn't like what we were doing they were terribly upset and i could understand that you know their livelihood was making processed meat and they didn't want any anything coming out saying that those were not good for you basically were trying to shoot me down or discredit me and that's what shoot down needs scientifically. what we discovered went much further. the scientists had never realized just whom she was dealing with. america made a hot dog. meyer gave it to get a big hit. in

in the end mr trott's he did a great job well before the industrialist. back then he's an. the preston martin arguments were brought into the media spotlight. by this health journalist on a major national t.v. channel a few days after the publication of the famous study. let's get back to our hot dog study remember they asked the people did you eat a hot dog they didn't ask them did you put it in a bun did you put ketchup on it did you put mustard on it now you might be saying who really cares one way or the other but that's important because it may be that it's not the hot dog at all that's causing this increased risk of cancer maybe it's the bun maybe it's the ketchup maybe it's the mustard so you have to be careful when you read these studies not to say oh this causes this. the powers that be didn't go any farther than one nine hundred seventy s. nitrites file which could have resurfaced remains locked away. you're probably wondering what susan president thinks the woman targeted by the lobby. we showed her the documents and what upset her the most was seeing that fellow scientists had pla