Reduce your cancer risk with dietary tweaks

To everyone who is battling cancer or knows someone who is, I wanted to share with you some information on a new campaign from the Canadian Cancer Society.

It is called "Join the Fight!" and is about coming together to eradicate cancer.

We are looking for people to share their story with cancer - specifically, what you would do/say if cancer was standing in front of you?

More information can be found on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/CanadianCancerSociety#/event.php?eid=134526963443&index=1 or our website www.fightback.ca

All the donations raised from this campaign will go towards funding research and support groups across Canada.

I hope you will take a moment to view some of the videos of other people affected by cancer on our site and post your own messages.

Best,

Emily

Butter flavoring, used in microwave popcorn, is implicated as a cause of lung cancer, NOT BUTTER. Once again, can't trust most of what you read....

Kathy, I may love you, lol. And for the rest of you, who actually saw through this mess...thank you for giving me hope that the internet is not just filled with 100% wackos and ignorant zealots (just 99.99999%). Yeah!!!!!!

everything's gonna kill you. the air we breathe has cancer causing chemicals. not too long ago people ate whatever they wanted and lived to be in their 80's. i'm gonna keep eating what tastes good. i think the best advice is moderation. i'm not going to go eat a whole cow but if i want to grill it or have mc donald's cook it thats what i'm gonna do. probably top it with bacon too!

Correlation does not equal causation, for example the reason cold cuts are correlated with cancer may be do to the nitrates added, but nowadays there are nitrate free cold cuts. Also I don't know where salt comes in with cancer, maybe there is something to it but keep in mind that many salty foods also contain lots of preservatives. I should look more into this.

I think this list is alright but oversimplified.

And also, about Mr. BIG's post, it's a myth that raw milk is pathogen free. For millenia raw milk has been a vector for diseases like tuberculosis. People who drink raw milk do so at their own risk and the farms often test the milk before distributing. And the thing about skim milk being whitened, well I don't know the information on this is shakey, and usually this would be something that would be required to be added to the ingredients list. And Titanium Dioxide is not "paint" but rather a pigment that is used for many different uses such as suncreen, makeup, paint, and food coloring, but it may have some carcinogenic properties in large amounts.

This is a joke.

Lastly...Mr. Big is a perfect example of who not to listen to. Sir, sorry to tell you, but your numbers (that you probably learned as a "nutrition" major), are completely off, and are meant to make you sound like you know what you speak of. Also your rant on what cows eat, and those numbers, are off as well. Please leave this to people of science, not people on the fringe of science. A little knowledge is dangerous, especially when it is incomplete.

Are there spices that might be carcinogenic ? ie. black pepper, nutmeg, and a few others ?

Everything in the state of california causes cancer.

Geoffrey- Grass-fed, raw milk is nothing new. It is a pure food and was drank this way for thousands of years. Grain-fed is new. Pasteurization is new. Homogenization is new. Milk from grain-fed cattle has a ratio of omega 6's to omega 3's of about 20:1. From grass-fed cattle is about 1:1 - 2:1. The ideal ratio for humans (how we evolved) is about 1:1 - 4:1. Also, canola oil is new (ahem.. genetically engineered canola oil is new, which is what most of it is nowadays). Saturated fats are essential for our bodies and we evolved on them. Arctic cultures lived (and still live) on a diet mostly based on whale blubber, a saturated fat. No heart disease there. Maybe this will shed some light: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4

Thanks Mr. Big for your insight.

LauraB...

It's been done for thousands of years, granted. Thousands of years ago, humans hadn't come upon the germ theory of disease. Thousands of years ago, human life expectancy was much, much shorter than it is now.

That something was done for thousands of years in no way grants it any sort of purity. As has been mentioned before, milk is a vector for numerous illnesses: bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, e. coli, listeria, salmonella, campylobacter... these are all pathogens found in raw, grass-fed milk. It's really no coincidence that precedence of these illnesses has gone down dramatically since the late 1800s when pasteurization was introduced into the United States.

Wait, let me summarize...So I should eat fresh fruits and veggies (list provided in case I dont know what sorts of things count as fresh fruits and veggies), dairy, fish, etc. And should not eat fat, charred foods, red meat, salt, and fast food???!!!! Why hasn't this information been made public before now??!!! Fast food was the key to my latest diet...

I cannot believe someone got paid to write this sh*t.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/22/7-Reasons-to-Eat-More-Saturated-Fat.aspx

God made Butter not Margarine.

are you sure???? lol

The jury is not out on artificial sweeteners! They are carcinogenic neurotoxins! Anyone who has seen the move "Sweet Misery, A poisoned World" or read Dr. Blaylock's book "excitotins, Tsate that Kills" knows enouhg to avoid artificial sweeteners and MSG!! Not to mention they lead to diabete, hypertension and other ailments. For mor einformation check out: http://www.mpwhi.com/main.htm

If you want to feel good try eating wild game you feel energized like never before, keep a diet high in fruits and veggies supplemented with free range or wild meats and fish also most important never fill your belly stay a little hungry and exercise walk or hike. Try to avoid evening meals

Wow, fruits and veggies are healthy? No kidding!

FYI: Several studies have shown an INCREASED risk of cancer in smokers who eat particular fruits and veggies which makes absolutely no sense. So be advised on the bias of this propaganda that is of course pointing a finger at fast food and bacon and butter. Yet again another sign of the Liberal agenda, keep sugar and meat and anything else other than twigs away from our diets to farther control our lives.

what can we eat that is cancer free Its looks as like nothing.

I'm sorry but all of this is total BULLSHIT.

Eat healthy. Avoid junk. Duh. They didn't pay you for this, did they?