Diet, Alcohol Linked to Nearly 1/3 of Cancer Cases

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Diet, Alcohol Linked to Nearly 1/3 of Cancer Cases

 

Tue May 18,11:11 AM ET Add Health - Reuters to My

 

 

By Patricia Reaney

 

HARROGATE, England (Reuters) - Diet is second only to tobacco as a

leading cause of cancer and, along with alcohol, is responsible for

nearly a third of cases of the disease in developed countries, a

leading researcher said on Tuesday.

 

 

Dr Tim Key, of the University of Oxford, told a cancer conference

that scientists are still discovering how certain foods contribute

to cancer but they know that diet, alcohol and obesity play a major

role.

 

 

" Five percent of cancers could be avoided if nobody was obese, " he

said.

 

 

While tobacco is linked to about 30 percent of cancer cases, diet is

involved in an estimated 25 percent and alcohol in about six

percent.

 

 

" We know that obesity and alcohol are important, " said Key.

 

 

Obesity raises the risk of breast, womb, bowel and kidney cancer

while alcohol is known to cause cancers of the mouth, throat and

liver. Its dangerous impact is increased when combined with smoking.

 

 

Both alcohol consumption and obesity rates are rising in many

countries.

 

 

Key told the meeting of the charity Cancer Research UK that other

elements of diet linked to cancer are still unknown but scientists

are hoping that the EPIC study, which is comparing the diets of

500,000 people in 10 countries and their risk of cancer, will

provide some answers.

 

 

Early results of the study have revealed that Norway, Sweden and

Denmark have the lowest consumption of fruit and vegetables among

European countries while Italy and Spain have the highest. Eating at

least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day is recommended to

reduce the risk of cancer.

 

 

Key, principal scientist on the EPIC study, said it is looking at

dietary links to some of the most common cancers including

colorectal, breast and prostate.

 

 

So far it has shown that obesity is linked to an increased risk of

colorectal cancer, while processed and red meat also probably raise

the chances of developing the disease and eating lots of fruit and

vegetables decrease the odds.

 

 

" Hormones are the key factor in breast cancer. There is currently

about a five-fold variation in breast cancer rates around the world.

Much of that variation is due to parity, the number of children (a

woman has) and breast feeding, " Key said.

 

 

But he added that obesity and alcohol can also raise the risk of the

disease. Scientists working on the study have not positively

identified any dietary factors associated with prostate cancer.

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Dear JoAnn

A Nice Half Way Study.

Now if they only found out what soils (depleted of minerals or not), how

much acid rain falls on the insecticide/pesticide , chemically fertilized

soils and plants and fruits, and how the animals were raised ....the

chemicals , hormones, antibiotics, synthetically, fertilized pastures,

adulterants in the animal's *store bought feed*.....What stabilizers,

coloring agents , more pesticides, (radiation?) were foisted upon the food

stuffs BEFORE the people in the studies were asked to be SUBJECTS of

scientific scrutiny. AND put all of that group on one side (cohort?)

THEN got a group to be studied on the other side (cohort?) of folks

that consumed only clean , organically raised meats, dairy, cheeses, fishes,

fowls, fruits and vegetables, clean air, clean water. And last but not

least in the *clean * group, people not subjected to T.V. cell phones, high

tension wires , various electromagnet fields in their daily life. ( Of

course this study on foods and cancer would not look into cultural foibles

or ages of subjects or individual bodies abilities to deal / adapt to

medicines, etc. previously given to the subjects.... ).

Account (scientifically) for all of the above , THEN they might have

a study.

What are the odds of a study ever being done like that? NG-----

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" JoAnn Guest " <angelprincessjo

 

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:34 AM

Diet, Alcohol Linked to Nearly 1/3 of

Cancer Cases

 

 

> Diet, Alcohol Linked to Nearly 1/3 of Cancer Cases

>

> Tue May 18,11:11 AM ET Add Health - Reuters to My

>

>

> By Patricia Reaney

>

> HARROGATE, England (Reuters) - Diet is second only to tobacco as a

> leading cause of cancer and, along with alcohol, is responsible for

> nearly a third of cases of the disease in developed countries, a

> leading researcher said on Tuesday.

>

>

> Dr Tim Key, of the University of Oxford, told a cancer conference

> that scientists are still discovering how certain foods contribute

> to cancer but they know that diet, alcohol and obesity play a major

> role.

>

>

> " Five percent of cancers could be avoided if nobody was obese, " he

> said.

>

>

> While tobacco is linked to about 30 percent of cancer cases, diet is

> involved in an estimated 25 percent and alcohol in about six

> percent.

>

>

> " We know that obesity and alcohol are important, " said Key.

>

>

> Obesity raises the risk of breast, womb, bowel and kidney cancer

> while alcohol is known to cause cancers of the mouth, throat and

> liver. Its dangerous impact is increased when combined with smoking.

>

>

> Both alcohol consumption and obesity rates are rising in many

> countries.

>

>

> Key told the meeting of the charity Cancer Research UK that other

> elements of diet linked to cancer are still unknown but scientists

> are hoping that the EPIC study, which is comparing the diets of

> 500,000 people in 10 countries and their risk of cancer, will

> provide some answers.

>

>

> Early results of the study have revealed that Norway, Sweden and

> Denmark have the lowest consumption of fruit and vegetables among

> European countries while Italy and Spain have the highest. Eating at

> least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day is recommended to

> reduce the risk of cancer.

>

>

> Key, principal scientist on the EPIC study, said it is looking at

> dietary links to some of the most common cancers including

> colorectal, breast and prostate.

>

>

> So far it has shown that obesity is linked to an increased risk of

> colorectal cancer, while processed and red meat also probably raise

> the chances of developing the disease and eating lots of fruit and

> vegetables decrease the odds.

>

>

> " Hormones are the key factor in breast cancer. There is currently

> about a five-fold variation in breast cancer rates around the world.

> Much of that variation is due to parity, the number of children (a

> woman has) and breast feeding, " Key said.

>

>

> But he added that obesity and alcohol can also raise the risk of the

> disease. Scientists working on the study have not positively

> identified any dietary factors associated with prostate cancer.