A Few Cancer Facts You Should Know
According to the National Academy of Sciences, 60% of all cancers in women and 40% of all cancers in men may be due to dietary and nutritional factors.
Fat intake is one of the key risk factors linked to cancer, especially animal fat, which has been consistantly implicated with higher cancer rates.
When someone eats sugar, the body produces insulin, and insulin can cause breast cancer just as estrogen does.
Cancer is thought to grow and feed off the alcohol produced in your body by excess sugars. Drinking alcohol accelerates this process.
Potentially cancer-causing substances are also produced when meat, chicken, or fish are fried or BBQ’d for a long time at high temperatures..
A recent Three-Nations report suggests that women who breast-feed their babies for prolonged periods have a lower risk of developing breast cancer.
If an American woman consumes one-and-a-half servings of red meat each day, her risk of developing breast cancer is double that of a woman who consumes three servings per week or less, say researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.
Heterocyclic amines are cancer causing chemicals. It is also possible the growth hormones, which are given to cattle, could be a factor.
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Sept. 24, 2003 (Copenhagen, Denmark) — As if life isn’t stressful enough, Swedish researchers say that being under stress maydouble a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.
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