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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No. Sick people are easier to control. It’s all rather too-convenient.
You’ll read about more of this BS until the day you die and nothing will have been resolved.
‘Diet’ is simpleton, btw, but it’s part of the puzzle.
One of my closest loved ones was an athlete as well as a health nut—almost a vegetarian. She died of cancer at 60.
I've had a lot of experience dieting over the years and I get the best results when I cut out added sugar (basically a low carb diet). I don't like to label it "Keto"; "Atkins"; "South Beach" et al, but it's just a smart way of eating. You eat food mostly in its natural form and stay away from processed foods as much as possible.
This means shopping the perimeter of the supermarket: Produce, Fish, Meat, Dairy, Eggs, Nuts...
In restaurants I keep it simple. Salads with no dressing (just olive oil on the side) with meat and vegetables. Wine by the glass. Absolutely nothing deep fried (that includes french fries). I skip dessert and go with espresso and perhaps a shot of good bourbon. I skip the breads entirely.
I've read from a lot of sources that sugar feeds cancer but I also think that having a positive attitude about life in general wards off disease. You've got to be happy and have some interests, like music, reading books, hiking, etc. People who are pessimistic and always negative tend to get sick a lot more. Also, people who sit in front of the TV all night don't seem as healthy either.
Thanks for replying to my post, FRiend Don.
Distilled spirits ... that’s one pleasure of life I rarely indulge in. Things have come to a bad place when many bartenders don’t know that you MUST have bitters in a Manhattan.
I’m not teetotal but I generally limit myself to a glass of vino while waiting for the spaghetti water to boil and another glass while eating the spaghetti.
Other than that, not much alcohol at all. Rich food, on the other hand ...
I agree with Lagmeister.
“All meat , poultry, pork, fish and dairy are carcinogens and not safe for human consumption in any amount.”
Good point. There is a reason humans only began hunting and eating meat in the last 20 years! Seriously...meat and cheese are good for you. Not in mind-boggling amounts, but real meat (without additives) and cheese are good for you.
BTW - my uncles and aunts on both sides got mildly fat, ate lots of meat & cheese and bread and pasta...in reasonable amounts...and the young ones died at 85. Most passed 90.
“A whole foods, plant-based diet, high in whole-grain carbs, fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts, does not come close to resembling the standard American diet. The standard American diet that is killing people is high-protein, high fat. Heavy in meat, poultry, pork, fish, dairy. It’s killing people with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and every other chronic disease.”
The diet you suggest doesn’t make you live longer. It just makes it FEEEEEL long!
Sorry. Known WAY to many people 85+ who avoided veggies, beans and nuts. Ate dairy, bacon & burgers and pizza. And beer! And coffee! And ice cream. IN MODERATION.
How do you define the “correct” way? If you were consuming meat and dairy, then there was nothing correct about it. Which is why you had problems.
Yeah, but what did they LOOK like? What was their quality-of-life? How often were they in the doctors office? How often were they in the hospital? Hobbling around on a cane? Wheelchairs? Scooter? Surgeries? Heart issues? Overweight? Body fat? It’s too easy to just say that they lived to over 85 years old.
You do know that animals that eat plants have special digestive systems to properly digest the plants to obtain the nutrients in the plants.
Humans do not have those digestive systems.
No, I don’t know that. Because it sounds like nonsense. I’m doing just fine. No supplements, no issues, no problems. Look great, feel great.
Plants are what food eats.
“Broadly speaking, we eat a lot more than we used to: The average American consumed 2,481 calories a day in 2010, about 23% more than in 1970...
Nearly half of those calories come from just two food groups: flours and grains (581 calories, or 23.4%) and fats and oils (575, or 23.2%), up from a combined 37.3% in 1970. Meats, dairy and sweeteners provide smaller shares of our daily caloric intake than they did four decades ago; then again, so do fruits and vegetables (7.9% in 2010 versus 9.2% in 1970)...
...Most of the fats we consume are in the form of vegetable oils: soybean, corn, canola and other oils used as ingredients or in which foods are cooked.”
Notice meat is down and grains are up. Fat is up, but often in the form of oils. I’d agree eating oils is generally a bad thing.
“In 2000, according to the USDA, each individual in the U.S. consumed over 150 pounds of sugar. Over half of that came from corn. Just because high-fructose corn syrup is made from corn, of course, doesn’t mean that it is a healthy sweetener....
...In 2000, the latest data available, Americans ate nearly 75 pounds of added fats and oils. This number is estimated to be even higher today. The interesting part of this chart is that while “healthy” fats have decreased, the amount of unhealthy fats has increased. In the 1950s, butter, lard and tallow represented nearly 20 pounds per person while today it accounts for just 14 pounds. This is in contrast to processed shortening and margarine, which is today consumed at a rate of over 32 pounds per year, per adult... “
https://draxe.com/charts-american-diet/
Eat foods cooked at home, with a minimum coming in packages. As a rule, you should be able to recognize your food. Oh...and it is OK to be hungry sometimes. Pretty weird if a person never gets hungry, which is different from having a craving.
All IMHO. 50+ years ago, it would have been called normal. Remember, there was a time Coke was sold in 5 oz bottles, and a McDonald’s hamburger was 1/10 of a pound before cooking...
“Yeah, but what did they LOOK like? What was their quality-of-life? How often were they in the doctors office? How often were they in the hospital? Hobbling around on a cane? Wheelchairs? Scooter? Surgeries? Heart issues? Overweight? Body fat? It’s too easy to just say that they lived to over 85 years old. “
Hate to spoil your rant, but they were fine. Rarely saw a doctor. No canes. No scooters. No wheelchairs. Mom had breast cancer, but lived to 85. She was doing fine until she re-broke her ankle in her 80s. It had been broken before in an auto accident in her 20s and the metal pins gave out. Nothing to do with diet. But she went downhill fast after she had to give up walking 4 miles every morning. In her 80s.
One uncle was a farmer. He ate lard. Also smoked like a chimney and died of emphysema in his 80s. But he was a lean, fit man until the emphysema destroyed him. Heavy smoking for decades is not healthy.
But...your idea that it is unhealthy to eat what people have eaten gladly forever is just nuts!
Look up ruminants.
Read/watch about Peter Attia:
https://www.ted.com/speakers/peter_attia
Read/watch about Tim Noakes
Nothing reverses cancer because cancer is mutated cells and you can’t reverse a mutation. You have to cut it out or kill it with poisons before the poisons kill you.
Food eats plants and converts the nutrients in plants into a form that humans can benefit from.
I have always eaten whatever I want ,have an excellent quality of life and have never been overweight——-I also smoke——-and I’m 86.
It’s good genes,Iguess.
Sugar-sweetened beverages? Does he mean high-fructose-corn syrup-sweetened beverages?
I pretty much stick to the 5 food groups: fruit, vegetables, meat, pizza, and ice cream.
Chocolate and coffee are my two favorite food groups.
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