Has a unique flavor makes the most frequently consumed pork than beef. However, due to unhygienic handling during slaughter, making pork should be wary. Therefore, contaminated pork is harmful to health.
Below there are a number of risks to health when eating pork, as quoted by Health Me Up, Monday (12/15/2014). Of the things below can be detrimental to health if the meat is not cooked properly. When cooked the right way, it will not happen anything.
1. Pig slows the digestive process. In fact, one serving of lean pork can take up to six hours to digest.
2. Pork contains toxins. Pigs digest their food within four hours, so most of the toxins that should be eliminated can be stored in their fat tissue instead. They also do not have sweat glands which means they do not have a way to get rid of toxins in their bodies.
3. Pigs high polyunsaturated fat, which can react with fructose or alcohol and cause liver disease.
4. Pigs bring many parasites into their bodies. Although we eat undercooked pork, but some parasites are not killed can enter our body and damage the immune system.
5. trichinellosis is a serious disease that is caused when no senagaja we consume parasitic worms found in pig muscle.
Trichinellosis can cause nausea, vomiting, headache, fever, muscle pain, heart problems, and respiratory problems.
6. Pigs also carry parasites and viruses such as hepatitis E virus, tapeworm Taenia solium.