Study confirms red meat link with bowel cancer

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Study confirms red meat link with bowel cancer

By Richard Woodman Wed Jun 15, 5:27 AM ET

 

 

 

LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - People who eat more than 160 grams of red

or processed meat a day are 35 percent more likely to develop bowel cancer than

those who eat less than 20 grams a day, according to one of the biggest

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The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) followed

478,040 men and women aged 35 to 70 from 10 European countries.

 

All subjects were free of cancer at enrollment between 1992 and 1998, but after

an average follow-up of almost 5 years 1,329 colorectal cancers had been

reported.

 

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intakes of red meat are associated with increased bowel cancer risk.

 

After factoring in age, sex, height, weight, energy intake, physical activity,

smoking, dietary fibre, folate, and alcohol consumption, the investigators found

that bowel cancer was associated with intake of red and processed meat but not

chicken.

 

Risk of colorectal cancer dropped with increasing intake of fish. Eating more

than 80 grams a day of fish was associated with a 31 percent reduction in risk

compared with eating less than 10 grams a day.

 

Subjects with high red meat and low fish intake were at 63 percent higher risk

of bowel cancer compared with subjects with low red meat and high fish intake.

In addition, the risk of developing the disease was increased for those people

who ate a low fibre diet.

 

Sheila Bingham, study investigator at the UK's Medical Research Council

nutrition unit, said: " People have suspected for some time that high levels of

red and processed meat increase risk of bowel cancer, but this is one of the

largest studies worldwide and the first from Europe of this type to show a

strong relationship. "

 

She added in a statement: " The overall picture is very consistent for red and

processed meat and fibre across all the European populations studied. "

 

Study coordinator, Elio Riboli, of the [input] [input] [input] World

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Cancer, said: " Other risk factors for bowel cancer include obesity and lack of

physical activity. Smoking and excess alcohol may also play a role. These

factors were all taken into account in the analysis. "

 

Professor Tim Key, Deputy Director of Cancer Research UK's epidemiology unit,

said: " We estimate that more than two thirds of colorectal cancer cases - 25,000

cases in the UK - could be avoided by changes in lifestyle in Western

countries. "

 

SOURCE: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, June 15, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The " study " lumps together red meat and processed meat. Processed

meat is utter garbage. The " study " is valueless and proves nothing about

those who eat red meat, but stay away from processed meat. Likewise, the

study makes no distinction between meats from animals pumped up with growth

hormones, and antibiotics, and meat from animals raised without either.

 

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Study confirms red meat link with

bowel cancer

 

 

> Study confirms red meat link with bowel cancer

> By Richard Woodman Wed Jun 15, 5:27 AM ET

>

>

>

> LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - People who eat more than 160 grams of

> red or processed meat a day are 35 percent more likely to develop bowel

> cancer than those who eat less than 20 grams a day, according to one of

> the biggest nutrition investigations ever carried out.