No surprise: Western diet linked to colon cancer

Filed under: Colon and Rectal Cancer, Nutrition

Colon cancer kills an estimated 600,000 people globally each year. according to the latest statistics. How are some of those future cancer deaths going to be prevented? In another arrow in the quiver regarding the importance of proper food and nutrition, a new survey says that diet plays a very strong role in the development of colon cancer.

Specifically, a "Western" diet that consists of fat read meat, processed foods and refined sugars is among (if not) the worst diet you can force upon the body. It continues to be no surprise, then, that cancer rates that loom larger every year are the resultant effect. Eve with genetic predisposition t cancer, the human body was not made for the junk a Western-type diet provides.

I like this quote by Jeffrey Meyerhardt of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts: "It's not really increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables, but really trying to reduce the amount of red meat intake and fatty foods and sugary 'desserty' [sweet desserts] foods, that seems to be protective for colon cancer recurrences and survival."

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[Source: The Cancer Blog]