Breaking Medical News: Red Meat Again Linked to Colorectal Cancer

[Guest guest]

Well, we're vegetarians (or trying to be) here, but this should help to

strengthen our resolve to keep on with it (as if most of us weren't convinced

already!) and to strengthen our arguments when confronted about our lifestyle by

omnivores. Anyway, it's a short item but an interesting one.

 

Best to all, Pat

 

Red Meat Again Linked to Colorectal Cancer

 

A recent study from the Ontario Family Colorectal Cancer Registry, established

by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, compared the diets of people who had been

diagnosed with colorectal cancer to the diets of people who did not have cancer.

It turned out that those who ate the most red meat had a 67 percent higher risk

of colorectal cancer, regardless of any genetic factors they may have had.

However, some people with specific genes had a much higher risk from

meat-eating--up to four times the cancer risk--compared to people who avoid

meat.

 

Every year, 160,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer. About half

of all cases are already incurable when they are found.

 

Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Manno M, Gallinger S, Okey AB, Harper PA. Red meat

intake, doneness, polymorphisms in genes that encode carcinogen-metabolizing

enzymes, and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and

Prevention. 2008;17:3098-3107.

 

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