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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Conventional thinking.
There are new cellular therapies which train the body’s own immune system to attack the cancer; sometimes with truly spectacular results.
The cost can be prohibitive: $500,000 and up, as it cannot be mass produced by definition.
I’ve read about that and that is truly the ideal treatment, killing cancer without poison. The cost will come down as the equipment and technique proliferates.
Not necessarily by much: the problem is one has to collect the immune cells, culture them, and train them on tumor extract, as it were.
There is no way to make a one-size-fits-all.
All carbohydrates do is get broken down to create glucose which is the same glucose that comes from sugar. What glucose the body does not use, it turns it to fat. If the body is not getting enough of these two sources, it makes its own glucose. If you do three hours of aerobics a week and swim 6 miles a week, that may be the cause of you losing weight.
Sugar has another nasty effect. It causes inflammation. Excess glucose in the blood causes increased levels of uric acid, a trigger for inflammation and insulin resistance.
Chocolate and coffee for the win!
we can't blame the drunk or the drugged or the slutty promiscuous pigs and their minions or the smokers.... because all that is just disease....they can't help it...blah blah blah......
The last I read, they had reduced the time to making the CAR T cells from several weeks to 7 days. That right there is a huge stride in cost reduction.
Technology always becomes cheaper unless the government gets involved.
Or someone creates a monopoly... ;-)
Check out the Carnivore diet - easy to stay on - eat when hungry, lose weight without effort - I have lost 48 lbs and reached my goal in 7 months. Significant other benefits: better skin/hair, teeth/gums, sleep/mood, blood sugar swings/cravings for sweetened foods are eliminated.....
Exactly. Over the course of a lifetime, how many times do headlines like these start fad diets?
Good advice.
I think what it comes down to is Moderation in everything.
Same here. I cut out added sugar, salt and fat on weekdays. Lots of veggies boiled tender crisp. Small portions of beef, chicken, lamb, pork or fish. You can actually taste the food and appreciate its real flavor. Watermelon starts tastings even better than ice cream! Occasional treats on holidays and weekends.
Great story. Thanks.
Years ago I had a bout with plantar fasciitis. It hurts! Even a couple of cortisone shots did not help. My wife suggested Flax Seed Oil. I figured what did I have to lose. Within a week it was gone and never came back. Don’t know if it was the Flax or not but it was gone.
;o)
Article title is just stupid.
“Thousands” is meaningless if there’s no perspective out of how many overall cases.
My German grandmother ate everything. She was a big woman and lived without any major health problems into her late 90’s.
Yup, and there’s a few cancers that will convert fats to sugar so a keto diet doesn’t help in those cases.
1. Correlation is not causation.
2. Unless all other possibly simultaneously occurring factors are accounted for, and eliminated, then the study is incomplete.
With all due respect. Ugh, no.
That is why diabetes is rampant and the country is vastly over weight. Carbs are sugars is various forms. The body processes some slower than others but ultimately a carb is a carb. Believe what you want. My brother is a ‘needle using’ diabetic on a balanced diet with the usual recommended carbs. I am low carb and not a diabetic, not even close. He is over weight. I am not. His blood pressure is high. Mine, at 68, is 119/68. Folks can believe what they want. I restrict carbs of all kinds. I live what I preach.
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