Six Foods That Increase Or Decrease Your Risk Of Cancer

If you believe cancer is a disease that strikes from nowhere with little in your control to prevent it, you’d be mistaken on both counts. Most cases of cancer are considered preventable by positive nutrition and lifestyle choices. A healthy weight, a healthy diet, exercise and reducing your intake of alcohol and/or tobacco all make a huge difference to your chances of developing cancer.
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Six new nutrition cancer prevention guidelines published today in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition reinforce some sound advice, but also include a surprise or two.

Cancer is a big killer of Australians, and is responsible for 30% of all deaths each year. The “big five” in order of incidence are prostate, bowel, breast, melanoma and lung cancer. Our love of the sun and smoking mostly explain the last two, but it is food, exercise and other lifestyle choices that explain much of a person’s risk of cancer.

1. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables

2. Limit or avoid alcohol

3+4. Avoid red and processed meat

5. Women: eat soy foods to reduce your risk of breast cancer

6. Men: limit or avoid dairy products to reduce your risk of prostate cancer

Dear oh dear oh dear. Who’d want to live like that?

OCDC said:

Dear oh dear oh dear. Who’d want to live like that?

Anyone who has recently suffered a health scare?

No alcohol or red or processed meat though!

It gets a bit silly really. We all die in the end. If the doctologists want to stop people dying then they’ve got to find a cure for death. They can’t expect people to stop eating meat and cheese and enjoying a drink and all the rest of it.

OCDC said:

No alcohol or red or processed meat though!

The red colouring/flavouring chemical in processed meats is a known carcinogen. The others I’m prepared to take my chances on.

Lifestyle choice?

Two large glasses of Crème de Menthe thanks.

I’d like to ask these people: if I’m not going to die of cancer, what will kill me instead, and why is that better?

Well, more centenarians die from pneumonia or “old age” than from cancer and TBH it’s probably a nicer way to go.

Get your driver’s licence and die in a fiery car crash, taking innocent people with you.

OCDC said:

Well, more centenarians die from pneumonia or “old age” than from cancer and TBH it’s probably a nicer way to go.

I’m probably scheduled to die of cancer since both parents did. But when the cancer comes along I’m likely to choose some other way.

OCDC said:

Well, more centenarians die from pneumonia or “old age” than from cancer and TBH it’s probably a nicer way to go.

Ha. I had to look up TBH. Thought it was a new disease! Must brush up on forum lingo :)

just skip sweets in Ballina

Firstly, madd props @mengele for the subject line.

Secondly, note that they are just saying that these are the things to avoid to lower the risk of cancer, Car. They are not banning them or anything like that. If drinking wine and eating cheese is important to your lifestyle then go ahead: I dare say the impact on your life expectancy won’t be more than a couple of years this way or that. You are, as you say, going to die anyway.

Most cases of cancer ARE cured these days anyway, by reasonable definitions.

dv said:

Firstly, madd props @mengele for the subject line.

ROFFLE

POTD

OCDC said:

Six Foods That Increase Or Decrease Your Risk Of Cancer

If you believe cancer is a disease that strikes from nowhere with little in your control to prevent it, you’d be mistaken on both counts. Most cases of cancer are considered preventable by positive nutrition and lifestyle choices. A healthy weight, a healthy diet, exercise and reducing your intake of alcohol and/or tobacco all make a huge difference to your chances of developing cancer.
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Six new nutrition cancer prevention guidelines published today in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition reinforce some sound advice, but also include a surprise or two.

Cancer is a big killer of Australians, and is responsible for 30% of all deaths each year. The “big five” in order of incidence are prostate, bowel, breast, melanoma and lung cancer. Our love of the sun and smoking mostly explain the last two, but it is food, exercise and other lifestyle choices that explain much of a person’s risk of cancer.

1. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables

2. Limit or avoid alcohol

3+4. Avoid red and processed meat

5. Women: eat soy foods to reduce your risk of breast cancer

6. Men: limit or avoid dairy products to reduce your risk of prostate cancer

Dear oh dear oh dear. Who’d want to live like that?

Well I for one, and it has given me 15 years of life without formal medical intervention for prostate cancer.