Colon Cancer
Colon and Other Cancers: Higher Rates in Civilization?
"Cancer. As Eaton et al. [1994, p. 361] note:
Medical anthropologists have found little cancer in their studies of technologically primitive people, and paleopathologists believe that the prevalence of malignancy was low in the past, even when differences in population age structure are taken into account (Rowling, 1961; Hildes and Schaefer, 1984; Micozzi, 1991).
Eaton et al. [1994] also analyzed the factors involved in women's reproductive cancers and developed a model that indicates that up to the age of 60, the risk of breast cancer in Western women is 100 times the risk level for preagricultural (e.g., hunter-gatherer) women."
Hunter-Gatherers: Examples of Healthy Omnivores
http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/comp-anat/comp-anat-8b.shtml
"During his time among them, [explorer, ethnologist and author Vilhjalmur] Stefansson shared the typical Eskimo diet of almost-raw fish and blubber supplemented by an occasional chunk of meat, but no quickie carbs, no vegetables, no grains, and no sugar. He, like the Eskimos, remained lean, active, healthy, and cancer-free. But by the 1920s, the Eskimos had begun to adopt Western ways and a Western diet, stefansson noted in his 1960 report Cancer: A Disease of Civilization ? And so it began: In 1933, an Eskimo died of liver cancer in Alaska. Two years later, a second Eskimo passed away of colon cancer in Labrador."
- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How You Can Get Back on Track
Meta-analysis of animal fat & meat consumption show NO association with colon cancer
Sunday, 11 April 2010
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/meta-analysis-of-animal-fat-meat.html
Potatoes correlated with increased risk of colon cancer:
Lifestyle and colorectal cancer: A case-control study
Yuan Ping, Yoichi Ogushi, Yoshikazu Okada, Yasuo Haruki, Isao Okazaki and Tetsuhei Ogawa
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/potatoes-increase-risk-of-colon-cancer.html
"Positive history of maternal cancer, large consumption of alcohol, frequent consumption of potato products and white-collar job were predominant risk factors while frequent intake of seaweed was a protective factor. Frequent intakes of dairy foods and lack of exercise showed no significant tendency to increase risk of colorectal cancer. Smoking habits, intakes of meat and egg were shown not to be related to this disease."
Fibre associated with increasing rates of colon cancer
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/fibre-associated-with-increasing-rates.html
Published in Cancer Causes and Control Volume 6, Number 1 / January, 1995 14-23
Subsite-specific risk factors for colorectal cancer: a hospital-based case-control study in Japan
Manami Inoue, Kazuo Tajima, Kaoru Hirose, Nobuyuki Hamajima, Toshiro Takezaki, Takashi Hirai, Tomoyuki Kato and Yoshiyuki Ohno
This paper can be accessed at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j66772824813054u/
It is established that fibre softens and loosens human feces. This study suggests that soft and loose feces might be associated with colon cancer.
Meat and fat consumption NOT associated with colon cancer
Thursday, 22 April 2010
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/meat-and-fat-consumption-not-associated.html
Effect of meat (beef, chicken, and bacon) on rat colon carcinogenesis.
Parnaud G, Peiffer G, Taché S, Corpet DE.
Nutr Cancer. 1998;32(3):165-73.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10050267
"The results suggest that, in rats, beef does not promote the growth of ACF and chicken does not protect against colon carcinogenesis. A bacon-based diet appears to protect against carcinogenesis, perhaps because bacon contains 5% NaCl and increased the rats' water intake."
High-fiber diet doesn't reduce colon cancer risk, study finds
Regular screening for colon cancer, including a colonoscopy, provides the best preventative medicine
January 20, 1999
Web posted at: 8:00 p.m. EST (0100 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9901/20/colon.cancer/index.html
"Cancer. As Eaton et al. [1994, p. 361] note:
Medical anthropologists have found little cancer in their studies of technologically primitive people, and paleopathologists believe that the prevalence of malignancy was low in the past, even when differences in population age structure are taken into account (Rowling, 1961; Hildes and Schaefer, 1984; Micozzi, 1991).
Eaton et al. [1994] also analyzed the factors involved in women's reproductive cancers and developed a model that indicates that up to the age of 60, the risk of breast cancer in Western women is 100 times the risk level for preagricultural (e.g., hunter-gatherer) women."
Hunter-Gatherers: Examples of Healthy Omnivores
http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/comp-anat/comp-anat-8b.shtml
"During his time among them, [explorer, ethnologist and author Vilhjalmur] Stefansson shared the typical Eskimo diet of almost-raw fish and blubber supplemented by an occasional chunk of meat, but no quickie carbs, no vegetables, no grains, and no sugar. He, like the Eskimos, remained lean, active, healthy, and cancer-free. But by the 1920s, the Eskimos had begun to adopt Western ways and a Western diet, stefansson noted in his 1960 report Cancer: A Disease of Civilization ? And so it began: In 1933, an Eskimo died of liver cancer in Alaska. Two years later, a second Eskimo passed away of colon cancer in Labrador."
- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How You Can Get Back on Track
Meta-analysis of animal fat & meat consumption show NO association with colon cancer
Sunday, 11 April 2010
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/meta-analysis-of-animal-fat-meat.html
Potatoes correlated with increased risk of colon cancer:
Lifestyle and colorectal cancer: A case-control study
Yuan Ping, Yoichi Ogushi, Yoshikazu Okada, Yasuo Haruki, Isao Okazaki and Tetsuhei Ogawa
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/potatoes-increase-risk-of-colon-cancer.html
"Positive history of maternal cancer, large consumption of alcohol, frequent consumption of potato products and white-collar job were predominant risk factors while frequent intake of seaweed was a protective factor. Frequent intakes of dairy foods and lack of exercise showed no significant tendency to increase risk of colorectal cancer. Smoking habits, intakes of meat and egg were shown not to be related to this disease."
Fibre associated with increasing rates of colon cancer
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/fibre-associated-with-increasing-rates.html
Published in Cancer Causes and Control Volume 6, Number 1 / January, 1995 14-23
Subsite-specific risk factors for colorectal cancer: a hospital-based case-control study in Japan
Manami Inoue, Kazuo Tajima, Kaoru Hirose, Nobuyuki Hamajima, Toshiro Takezaki, Takashi Hirai, Tomoyuki Kato and Yoshiyuki Ohno
This paper can be accessed at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j66772824813054u/
It is established that fibre softens and loosens human feces. This study suggests that soft and loose feces might be associated with colon cancer.
Meat and fat consumption NOT associated with colon cancer
Thursday, 22 April 2010
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/meat-and-fat-consumption-not-associated.html
Effect of meat (beef, chicken, and bacon) on rat colon carcinogenesis.
Parnaud G, Peiffer G, Taché S, Corpet DE.
Nutr Cancer. 1998;32(3):165-73.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10050267
"The results suggest that, in rats, beef does not promote the growth of ACF and chicken does not protect against colon carcinogenesis. A bacon-based diet appears to protect against carcinogenesis, perhaps because bacon contains 5% NaCl and increased the rats' water intake."
High-fiber diet doesn't reduce colon cancer risk, study finds
Regular screening for colon cancer, including a colonoscopy, provides the best preventative medicine
January 20, 1999
Web posted at: 8:00 p.m. EST (0100 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9901/20/colon.cancer/index.html