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Chicken 'causes cancer':Oxford University scientists say people who eat poultry are increased risk
www.dailymail ^ | Published: 04:58 EDT, 8 September 2019 | Updated: 10:25 EDT, 8 September 2019 | By Raven Saunt

Posted on 09/10/2019 9:42:10 AM PDT by Red Badger

Study revealed correlation between chicken and cancer but not the reasons why Eating chicken has previously been regarded as healthy alternative to red meat The research involved tracking 475,000 Britons over a period of eight years

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Eating chicken puts consumers at a higher risk of a rare form of blood cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as well as prostate cancer in men, according to researchers from Oxford University.

The research involved tracking 475,000 middle-aged Britons over a period of eight years between 2006 and 2014.

Their diets were analysed alongside the diseases and illnesses they suffered with.

Around 23,000 of them developed cancer.

'Poultry intake was positively associated with risk for malignant melanoma, prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma', according to the paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; carcinogens; chicken; foodsupply; health; nutrition; poultry
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To: BlueLancer

Hunt deer, eat grass fed beef.


21 posted on 09/10/2019 10:04:17 AM PDT by inchworm
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To: Red Badger

It’s not the chicken, it’s the stuff that the chicken eats.


22 posted on 09/10/2019 10:07:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: paterfamilias

So there are coincidences!
Someone should tell Gibbs!


23 posted on 09/10/2019 10:08:02 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Red Badger

Well, maybe chicken DOES cause cancer.

But everyone who eats a vegetarian or vegan diet is going to die.


24 posted on 09/10/2019 10:14:21 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Red Badger

“Study revealed correlation between chicken and cancer “

Another $tudy with the end result more $tudy needed?


25 posted on 09/10/2019 10:18:28 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

Didn’t know Prop. 65 had infected the UK.


26 posted on 09/10/2019 10:19:47 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: All

Studies have shown that living has a 100% death rate, so it should be avoided.


27 posted on 09/10/2019 10:21:02 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Red Badger

non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, that’s the cancer that exposer to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, causes and its manufacturer Monanto (now owned by Bayer Corporation) are currently facing many law suits from folks diagnosed with that type of cancer. Most everybody eats chicken so if Monsanto / Bayer Corp can prove that chicken can also be a source of non-Hodgkins cancers, that will make it really difficult for anyone to prove the actual cause. Follow the money!!


28 posted on 09/10/2019 10:22:25 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Red Badger

People who eat potentially can get cancer. I know I am out on a limb but I would bet that almost everyone who has had cancer has eaten. But I’m no scientist so don’t hold me to it.


29 posted on 09/10/2019 10:23:31 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Red Badger

That’s it, I’m going back to an all-beer diet.


30 posted on 09/10/2019 10:25:32 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: paterfamilias

Maybe they drowned themselves after they saw his movies.................


31 posted on 09/10/2019 10:32:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: fruser1

Yes, a Swedish scientist..........Long Pork.................


32 posted on 09/10/2019 10:32:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Blurb2350

Chicken Soup........It’ can’t hurt!............................


33 posted on 09/10/2019 10:33:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: drypowder

good point- another point is that we do NOT know what else these folks ate, how they did or did not exercise, what kinds of chemicals they may have been exposed to during the trial periods- whether they lived in areas with more pollution, more exhaust from cars- or out in areas with contaminated ground water-

on and on and on it goes-

Did any of them chew gum? Did they drink milk with their meals? Did they use a lot of bathroom chemicals to clean with? As someone pointed out- correlation does not = causation

There is just too much that isn’t known about this study- It could very well be that those that developed the cancers- somehow increased their chances by some lifestyle changes, by not exercising, by increasing the consumption of unhealthy foods during the trial period

We don’t know that it was the chicken that increased their chances- Just because they may have eaten more chicken than other people i n the study doesn’t mean something else they did or didn’t do during the period couldn’t have been the cause


34 posted on 09/10/2019 10:39:38 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

I didn’t save where I read it, but I do know it was a reliable source. The conclusion of the piece was that of your chances of getting cancer, 2/3 of the risk is due to your genetic makeup and the luck of the draw. The other third is environmental causes, what you eat, what you’re exposed to, things like that.

So 1/3, the minority, of your cancer risk is environmental and Behavioral. Basic common sense like not smoking or using tobacco, or working in a damaging environment or other obviously risky behavior. For example, getting hepatitis C and liver cancer from alcoholism or drug consumption, or having gay sex.

It’s actually pretty easy to reduce that 1/3 risk by a great deal. So where does that leave us? It leaves us at the mercy of Mother Nature and the roll of the dice. If you live reasonably well, cancer is just one of those things you can’t do anything about.

One thing I don’t like about these constantly scary studies is that the message they’re sending is anything bad that happens to you health-wise would not have happened if you hadn’t done what they tell you not to do. In other words, it’s all your fault. And that just isn’t so.

The universe is perverse and unfair.

I have another thought regarding health statistics. The myriad of diseases suffered by homosexual men and the complications from these diseases, like various cancers related to AIDS, skew statistics.
If you took gay men, statistically speaking, out of the general population when studying disease, I imagine what they claim to be your risk for some things would be in reality considerably less. Because they’re taking the high risk segment out of the statistical population.

Calculate the statistical average of getting lung cancer for the general population. Then remove all of the smokers from that population and rerun the statistical average risk for lung cancer. Big difference.


35 posted on 09/10/2019 10:54:34 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Red Badger
Epidemiology associative study based on dietary surveys? Meat is bad?

Good click bait, however not science.

In other manufactured news, orange man bad.
36 posted on 09/10/2019 10:58:43 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Bob434

See my post number 35.

Is practically impossible to control for all variables in this type of research. You really end up having to have some heavy duty major facter like cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Otherwise all the interactions and the variables are just too damn complex.

While I commend the search for the truth in science, I think there’s a great deal of hubris involved here on the part of the researchers.


37 posted on 09/10/2019 11:00:04 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Red Badger

And drinking too much water makes you piss more often and gives you STDs.


38 posted on 09/10/2019 11:00:09 AM PDT by upchuck (If democrats would stop shooting people gun violence would drop by 90% ~ h/t Mr K.)
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To: upchuck

Water? You mean like from the toilet?


39 posted on 09/10/2019 11:01:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

The real sponsors of the "Eat Chicken" campaign thwarted by new research!

40 posted on 09/10/2019 11:05:15 AM PDT by EinNYC
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