Red meat and alcohol are major cancer causes

[Gromit]

Millions of people are at risk of getting cancer unless they slash levels of alcohol and red meat in their diets, medical experts have warned in a landmark study.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/10/31/wcancer231.xml

People must be leaner, take more exercise, eat more whole foods, virtually cut out alcohol, consume less red meat and eat no bacon or ham at all.

This is the most comprehensive study ever, and not easily dismissed. Will you be following it's recommendations?

[cruella]

Hi Gromit,
My motto that I live by is, "Everything in moderation".
I think if I am sensible with diet, drinking etc, then I would not be changing my lifestyle.
They come up with all those surveys every so often, then they go full circle and turn it all around in twenty years time.
Don't know what to believe anymore. lol

[squarebear]

Here here! If you listened to all these studies then you wouldn't eat anything at all. I certainly won't be changing the way I eat and drink.

Cut out alcohol and don't eat bacon or ham?? You might not live for 100 years but it will certainly feel like it.

[sp1814]

I'm hoping that if I hang in long enough, someone will have a good word to say about Curly Wurlys.

[beryllium]

Hi Groms,
Over 5 yrs ago, when I was diagnosed with what I have, I had already chosen to look at diets aswell as other natural bits and pieces. 6 months in St Thomas' eugh!!!

I have never been over weight, but that's not what this is about.

The Swank Diet. It's for m.s but makes sense for all. No fats!!! or as little as possible. It's 35 yrs of study.

http://swankmsdiet.org/index.php/diet/about/

The recommendations were to avoid.....

Red meat, fats, dairy. I've never been a huge fan of red meats as they are very hard to digest anyway. I will have my red wine because I like it.

This really is nothing new. It's been in the circuit for years.

If people care about what goes into their body, they will.

Some will not.

and it really doesn't matter what is said.


B. xxx

[Reverandfunk]

Lets see if theres call for a ban on alcohol. Yeah right.

lets stick to targeting smokers.

[gina32]

it says processed food such a s bacon and sausage, i can see the sausage bit but bacon is bacon is bacon, just slices of meat from a pig, nothing added or am i missing something here

[Kathyan]

Smoking causes cancer.
Drinking alcohol causes cancer.
Eating the wrong food causes cancer.
Having the wrong lifestyle causes cancer.
Do they actually know what causes cancer?

[beryllium]

oooh... Grom... they forgot this one.

Oral sex causes throat cancer!!! ;) xxx

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11819-or al-sex-can-cause-throat-cancer.html

[Gromit]

beryllium

I think eating meat covers that one.

[sandbach99]

Most cases of cervical cancer are caused by a virus, hence the vaccination programme now begining.

Why then are all other cancers caused by what we eat, drink, weigh etc?

[beryllium]

Hi sandbach,

It's the HPV virus and it's also found in sperm. There is no tests currently available to test men carrying it though.

I wonder why?

[ludwig]

I won't be eating bacon again. I won't be breathing oxygen either - apparently that's dangerous too - if you breathe oxygen every day for about 80 years you drop dead.

[jiggy-gb]

I think with bacon and other processed meats from pork it's to do with nitrates. If you have a look on your packets of bacon, ham etc you'll see they all have some sort of nitrate or other, apparently that's what gives them their flavours and pink colour. They're carcinogenic (sp) by all accounts, so that bit would make sense. However, bacon is lovely, I refuse to stop eating it, and I'm Jewish too, so shhhh please!

But then breathing in the air in our polluted cities is probably just as bad for your health and a lot of these reports sound like they were made up by vegans to get us all off meat if you ask me.

[brionon]

Boy am I glad I don't drink Small amounts of alcohol ?

[sukkie]

If i had listened to everything the scientists and docters said we should not eat, I would have died of starvation years ago.
Its all about moderation. To much of anything is bad for you!

[Lucy Thomas]

Squarebear, the expression is 'hear, hear'.

[ruby27]

Ha Ha, all you meat eaters are going to die........
Oh I just remembered vegetarians are going to as well.

The snippet I heard was with alcohol, you need to drink enough red wine a day to benefit your heart, but not so much as to cause cancer.