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What You Eat Could Give You Cancer
March 09, 2010: 1 comment(s)
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A major cancer review published by the U.S. Congress in 1981 found that genes were responsible for only 2-3% of the total risk for cancer. Now, according to recent studies by nutritional scientists what you eat may be the real reason why some people develop cancer and others remain cancer free.
T. Colin Campbell, author of the China Study, has documented the most compelling relationships between diet and cancer. For example, areas in China that had low amounts of fruit intake had five to eight times higher rates of cancer of the esophagus. Vitamin C found in fruit is inversely related to the incidence of esophageal cancer so people who were eating more fruit were consuming greater amounts of vitamin C and protecting themselves against this kind of cancer.
Campbell also found that breast cancer rates were highest among women who ate an animal based diet and consumed milk rather than eating a plant based diet.
He believes this happens because, “animal protein increases the levels of a hormone, IGF-1, which is a risk factor for cancer, and high casein (the main protein of cow’s milk) diets allow more carcinogens into cells, which allow more dangerous carcinogen products to bind to DNA, which allow more mutagenic reactions that give rise to cancer, which allow more rapid growth of tumors once they are initially formed.”
Campbell reported his studies confirmed the findings of earlier scientists demonstrating that high fiber intake was “consistently associated with lower rates of cancer of the rectum and colon.” Colon cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and Americans have six times more colon cancer than under developed countries who have more plant foods in their diet.
The Chinese eat an average of 33.3 of fiber a day while the average American eats only 11.1 grams. The fact that fiber comes only from plants and not animals may explain why Americans eat less fiber. Fiber is found in beans, leafy vegetables and whole grains and very little is found in America’s most popular foods of pizza, hamburgers and French fries.
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pam
03/22/10 10:15
It sounds like Colin Campbell gave the eating well suggestions.
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