Posted on 05/22/2019 5:46:21 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Your diet may have more impact on your cancer risk than you might think, a new study has found.
An estimated 80,110 new cancer cases among adults 20 and older in the United States in 2015 were attributable simply to eating a poor diet, according to the study, published in the JNCI Cancer Spectrum on Wednesday.
"This is equivalent to about 5.2% of all invasive cancer cases newly diagnosed among US adults in 2015," said Dr. Fang Fang Zhang, a nutrition and cancer epidemiologist at Tufts University in Boston, who was first author of the study.
"This proportion is comparable to the proportion of cancer burden attributable to alcohol," she said.
The researchers evaluated seven dietary factors: a low intake of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and dairy products and a high intake of processed meats, red meats and sugary beverages, such as soda.
"Low whole-grain consumption was associated with the largest cancer burden in the US, followed by low dairy intake, high processed-meat intake, low vegetable and fruit intake, high red-meat intake and high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages," Zhang said.
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I’ve seen from so many sources that sugar feeds cancer. A friend who dies from cancer almost 2 years ago only wanted root beer floats near the end. About as sugary as you can get.
Where/how do they get their data?
Do they have some way of backtracking everything cancer victims have eaten over their entire lives?
I would expect that most of these nutrition studies depend on self reporting.
Now, what biases might be involved in self-reporting?
I was going to say that exact thing.. Sugar feeds cancer. Truth.
I should also add: Why is it that every last one of these nutrition studies comes up with the same bottom line:
Eliminate from you diet everything that tastes good, everything that makes life a little more pleasant.
Here’s my crazy theory: A lot of these researchers are Marxists. What a great way to soften up the populace for the inevitable Socialist Utopia than by sowing fear that the very food they eat is going to kill them.
Miserable people are easier to manipulate. And it’s rare indeed that one of these health studies turns up a conclusion along the lines of — “it’s OK, just go ahead and live your life.”
After all, a neutral finding wouldn’t be very useful when applying for the next round of grant funding.
I know more than a few people who’ve had their doctors tell them first thing eliminate sugar. Cancer cells are fast growing they probably grow faster with sugar.
I had the Cancer Gene tests done at Myriad Genetics. I came out of a clean even though family members on boths sides have died of cancer.
Environmental factors play a huge role
Nonsense!
Grains and dairy are the precise opposites of healthful foods.
Nonsense!
Grains and dairy are the precise opposites of healthful foods.
” we all will probably die with something …”
US Surgeon General
Very questionable.
Every single person I know/knew personally and know of, who had cancer, had VERY good/healthy diets! Some smoked ( an not a one had lung cancer! ), most never did.
I pretty much stick to the 5 food groups: fruit, vegetables, meat, pizza, and ice cream.
Lots and LOTS of things “play a role” and even IF you don’t have a cancer gene, if there is a preponderance of cancer in one’s family, you are still more than just a little bit likely to get some form of it; sadly.
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Hmm... retrospective study, looking at self-reported diets, statistical analysis.
Pretty weak, IMO.
Carbohydrates are the problem, regardless of source. Red meat, especially rib-eye steaks, yum good... good for you and good for me. Eggs? Good! Cream? Good! ... not milk. Down with carbs and up with life. Get those carbs under 20 per day and live long and prosper.
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