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Marco Torres, Prevent DiseaseWaking Times
There is evidence
linking almost every food or ingredient to cancer, but according to researchers, there’s
no need to worry because the evidence for pretty much all of it is very weak
they say.
Not a week goes by
without a new research finding that links part of our diet to an increased risk of some
form of cancer, and researchers want us to ignore all these findings because
they claim they’re based on weak statistical evidence.
So apparently we
should casually mull over all the information we now have on genetically modified
foods, artificial flavours, colors, preservatives, emulsifiers, and sweeteners.
Every single artificial
flavor and color in the food industry has some kind of detrimental health
effect. These include neurotoxicity, organ, developmental,
reproductive toxicity and cancer. Ignore them.
Genetically modified (GM) foods causes
allergies, organ damage, cancer, immunotoxicty, and damaging transgenes which
affect future generations. No problem, no worries.
Artificial
preservatives are responsible for causing a host of health problems pertaining to respiratory
tract, heart, blood and other. Some are very neurotoxic especially when
combined with specific nutrients. Ignore that too.
Sweeteners such as
Neotame are thousands of times sweeter than sugar. They are all very potent,
neurotoxic, immunotoxic and excitotoxic, but according to researchers there’s
no strong evidence.
So What Did They Find?
Researchers in the USA
set out to see whether, in fact, all foods have been studied for their
effectiveness at curing or causing cancer.
The research,
published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, took a random sample
of 50 foods and ingredients and searched the academic literature to see whether
research studies had associated them with cancer risk.
Led by John Ioannidis
at Stanford Prevention Research Center, USA, the research team found that 80%
of their sample food recipeshad been
studied in regard to their relationship to cancer, “and the large majority of
these studies were interpreted by their authors as offering evidence for
increased or decreased risk of cancer.”
“However, the vast majority of these claims were based on weak
statistical evidence,” said the research team.
“We have seen a very
large number of studies, just too many studies, suggesting that they had
identified associations with specificfood ingredients with cancer risk,” said
Ioannidis.
Food industry champions playing the
public relations game with very informed consumers are now having to back
peddle and go on damage control.
“People get scared or
they think that they should change their lives and make big decisions, and then
things get refuted very quickly,” he told Reuters Health. “There’s very strong
evidence, and pretty strong expectation, that some nutrients in some foods
would be related to cancer risk – either protecting or increasing the risk –
but it’s very hard to believe that almost anything would be associated with
cancer.”
Study Details
The research team
selected 50 foods and food ingredients at random and then assessed whether the
academic literature from the previous 35 years provided a suggestion of any
link to cancer risk.
“We surveyed recently
published studies and meta-analyses that addressed the potential association
between a large random sample of food ingredients and cancer risk of any type
of malignancy,” the researchers wrote.
The team found that 40
out of their 50 sample foods had been linked to cancer in some way — with half
having more than 10 studies reporting on such risks.
Those ingredients
linked to cancer were: veal, salt, pepper spice, flour, egg, bread,pork, butter, tomato, lemon, duck, onion, celery, carrot,
parsley, mace, sherry, olive, mushroom,
tripe, milk, cheese, coffee, bacon, sugar, lobster, potato, beef, lamb, mustard, nuts, wine,
peas, corn, cinnamon, cayenne, orange, tea, rum, and raisin.
“These ingredients
studied include many of the most common sources of vitamins and nutrients,”
said the team, while they noted that the 10 ingredients for which a cancer
association was not identified were generally more obscure: bay leaf,
cloves, thyme,vanilla, hickory,
molasses, almonds, baking
soda, ginger, and terrapin.
“We should acknowledge
that our searches for eligible studies were not exhaustive,” said Ioannidis and
his colleagues.
“Covering the entire
nutritional epidemiology literature would be impossible.”
The team added that
the interest in linking food and food ingredients to cancer has grown rapidly
in recent years, with around 85% of all scientific studies on food and cancer
occurring between 2000 and 2011.
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WARNING FROM RAEL: For those who don't use their intelligence at its
full capacity, the label "selected by RAEL" on some articles does not
mean that I agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL"
means that I believe it is important for the people of this planet to
know about what people think or do, even when what they think or do is
completely stupid and against our philosophy. When I selected articles
in the past about stupid Christian fundamentalists in America praying
for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader was stupid enough to believe
that I was supporting praying to change the weather. So, when I select
articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, racist,
revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or religion, or any
other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It just
means that it is important for all human beings to know about them.
Common sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good
enough to understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug
decriminalization, it is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment,
which in this case was very clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs,
as it is stupid to throw depressed and sad people (as only depressed and
sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin their life with a criminal
record. That does not mean that there is any change to the Message which
says clearly that we must not use any drug except for medical purposes.
The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be absolute.
That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews,
anti-Semites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your
enemies or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight
them. With love and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence
of the French philosopher Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
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through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
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Rael
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