{"id":883,"date":"2018-11-03T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/?p=883"},"modified":"2020-09-24T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:17:31","slug":"karkinos-diatrofi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/karkinos-diatrofi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer & diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The risk<\/strong> of developing cancer<\/strong> is different for each person based on genetic<\/strong> factors, the environment<\/strong> and lifestyle<\/strong>. Whereas we cannot control the first and only partially control the second we can, to a greater extent, determine our lifestyle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Hence we will examine<\/strong> here the part of life style which concerns nutrition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n

Meat<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The most important part in studying cancer and nutrition is about the influence that the consumption of red meat has in the occurrence of cancer. This influence was highlighted by a series of epidemiological studies, which pointed out that increased consumption of red<\/strong> or processed<\/strong> meat is linked to an elevated risk of developing cancer.<\/p>\n

Red meat<\/u> includes beef, pork, mutton, and goat as well as horse meat that has not had any short of processing. On the contrary processed meat<\/u> has been subjected to processing in order to extend its expiration period or augment its taste. Curing is one such process. Beef or pork meat are usually the basis of processed meat. However there are often more than one types of meat. The combination may include red meat exclusively, say for example pork and mutton or goat and beef meat or it may comprise of red and white meat, for example beef and poultry. Also processed meat may contain offal or byproducts of meat like blood. Smoked and corned beef, confections and sauces, sausages and ham all are processed meats.<\/p>\n

The two types of meat differ on the degree to which their consumption influences the occurrence of cancer. Both are positively related, meaning more consumption of meat, red or processed, goes hand in hand with increased cancer risk. However, red is classified under \u201cprobably carcinogenic to humans<\/em>\u201d. What does that mean? It means that while we do observe a positive association we cannot yet say that eating red meat causes cancer. Alternative explanations for this phenomenon cannot yet be excluded. Whereas, on the other side processed meat was classified under \u201ccarcinogenic to humans<\/em>\u201d, in other words we have satisfying evidence from epidemiological studies to say that its consumption does cause cancer, and specifically colon cancer.<\/p>\n

We could quantify the effect of meat consumption on the likelihood of developing cancer as follows:<\/p>\n