Diet and Cancer

[ecoli]

My mom sent me this video. Any thoughts?

 

The statements in the video actually seem well sourced (for a change)

 

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/03/what-you-ate-as-a-kid-can-give-you-cancer.html

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update: here's a link to a paper that he uses in the vid:

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B758G-48FJGY7-2J&_user=30742&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F1996&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000000333&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=30742&md5=a6fe7956eb4e65df182b15e75b7e7579

[Baby Astronaut]

Maybe the Cap has access to the paper through the university, and if so I'd like to have a glance at it as well. Also, since the paper's nearly fourteen years old, some better/updated info likely exists by now.

 

Abstract

In this review of the scientific literature on the relationship between vegetable and fruit consumption and risk of cancer, results from 206 human epidemiologic studies and 22 animal studies are summarized. The evidence for a protective effect of greater vegetable and fruit consumption is consistent for cancers of the stomach, esophagus, lung, oral cavity and pharynx, endometrium, pancreas, and colon. The types of vegetables or fruit that most often appear to be protective against cancer are raw vegetables, followed by allium vegetables, carrots, green vegetables, cruciferous vegetables, and tomatoes. Substances present in vegetables and fruit that may help protect against cancer, and their mechanisms, are also briefly reviewed; these include dithiolthiones, isothiocyanates, indole-3-carbinol, allium compounds, isoflavones, protease inhibitors, saponins, phytosterols, inositol hexaphosphate, vitamin C, Image -limonene, lutein, folic acid, beta carotene, lycopene, selenium, vitamin E, flavonoids, and dietary fiber.