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Top 10 Foods That Increase Cancer Risk
About 1,444,920 new cases of cancer were expected to be diagnosed last year–while 559,650 people were expected to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. That’s more than 1,500 people a day. What a startling statistic. In the book Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers, 2007) by Liz Armstrong et al, the No. 4 solution is “Eat a Healthy Diet.” Listed within are the 10 Foods and Drinks to Limit or Eliminate:
1. All charred food, which create heterocyclic aromatic amines, known carcinogens. Even dark toast is suspect.
2. Well-done red meat. Medium or rare is better, little or no red meat is best.
3. Sugar, both white and brown–which is simply white sugar with molasses added. (See Care2’s Directory of Natural Sweeteners for great, healthy alternatives.)
4. Heavily salted, smoked and pickled foods, which lead to higher rates of stomach cancer.
5. Sodas/soft drinks, which pose health risks, both for what they contain–sugar and various additives–and for what they replace in the diet–beverages and foods that provide vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
6. French fries, chips and snack foods that contain trans fats.
7. Food and drink additives such as aspartame.
8. Excess alcohol.
9. Baked goods, for the acrylamide.
10. Farmed fish, which contains higher levels of toxins such as PCBs.
Now that you know what not to eat, see the Top 10 Foods and Drinks for Cancer Prevention.
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add your comment »All these supposedly effective diets for preventing sickness are a load of codswallop. I am a very fit eighty-two years old and all my life I have eaten and drunk many of those foods that are supposed to be "bad" for you. Sure, I would not demean myself by visiting a junk fast-food joint and have always had a regular routine including four spaced varied meals daily, but those meals have included alcohol (chiefly red wine), lots of sugar, fatty foods, fish of all sorts and plenty of well-cooked red meat I have always been too busy at interesting exciting work as a teacher to have time to be ill, exactly one half-day off in sixty years. My advice would be simply keep pleasantly busy without imposing too much strain upon yourself and eat what you enjoy eating.
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I'm a vegetarian that recently gave up soda, but I love french fries! And white sugar, which is just so toxic for you. Luckily taking raw, unprocessed honey has balanced my blood sugar so I don't crave white sugar like I used to. The dark toast thing is scary though! --Kent
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I like what James K. has to say, we really should do more of our own homework, still, the table is looking more and more bare, this is s great cause of concern.
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oh my god i didn´t know that baked food may cause cancer, why????
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To the comment above:
- china has no pollution law to this day!!!
Have you noticed where more and more of your frozen organic veggies come from???
I'm not buying any of those!
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I am vegan so I don't eat any animal-derived foods. I like the vegan lifestyle. I never miss meat, dairy, etc.
But I do miss being able to swim in clean water and breathe clean air.
I wonder why we don't hear more about how much pollution is caused by factory farming. Add to that the waste of our natural resources just by growing food for overbred animals.
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I've never heard of baked goods causing cancer before. That's interesting, but I probably won't stop baking muffins. I've already eliminated a lot of bad stuff from my diet (and my cooking equipment too), so I guess we have to pick our battles. I'll choose to let that one go.
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I'm fighting breast cancer and have changed my diet. I eat alot of vegetables and legumes and I NEVER eat hormone fed, beef, milk, & chicken. Hormones have been proven to cause breast and probably any estrogen fed cancer.
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Well, to the people who say they don't believe in "cancer causing foods" and would rather die with a full stomach full of foods they love, keep in mind that most of the foods that are believed to increase caner risk, also have many other health risks as well.
Red meat for example, may increase your risk of several types of cancer. It's also very high in saturated fat and responsible is a major cause of heart disease and obesity.
Foods high in nitrites might increase risk of cancer. They also tend to be loaded with sodium, which increases your risk of high blood pressure, which in turn, increases your risk of heart disease.
"Eat to live. Don't live to eat" -- wise saying of unknown origin.
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I used too hate vegetable until I bought a
steamer they taste 60% better, with fruit!
I could not eat them I had pain in my knees for three years having too take pills,
So I started blending the fruits them with juice or
soy milk, and the pain went away in 3 days and newer came back !!or times I put dried fruit in
cereal
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