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PostTue Apr 22, 2014 10:26 am 
An Apple a Day, and Other Myths
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A trip to almost any bookstore or a cruise around the Internet might leave the impression that avoiding cancer is mostly a matter of watching what you eat. One source after another promotes the protective powers of “superfoods,” rich in antioxidants and other phytochemicals, or advises readers to emulate the diets of Chinese peasants or Paleolithic cave dwellers. But there is a yawning divide between this nutritional folklore and science. During the last two decades the connection between the foods we eat and the cellular anarchy called cancer has been unraveling string by string. This month at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a mammoth event that drew more than 18,500 researchers and other professionals here, the latest results about diet and cancer were relegated to a single poster session and a few scattered presentations. There were new hints that coffee may lower the risk of some cancers and more about the possible benefits of vitamin D. Beyond that there wasn’t much to say. In the opening plenary session, Dr. Walter C. Willett, a Harvard epidemiologist who has spent many years studying cancer and nutrition, sounded almost rueful as he gave a status report. Whatever is true for other diseases, when it comes to cancer there was little evidence that fruits and vegetables are protective or that fatty foods are bad. About all that can be said with any assurance is that controlling obesity is important, as it also is for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke and other threats to life. Avoiding an excess of alcohol has clear benefits. But unless a person is seriously malnourished, the influence of specific foods is so weak that the signal is easily swamped by noise.

falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly ~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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PostMon Dec 01, 2014 12:43 pm 
I'm surprised this didn't receive any replies. Hiker1, if an evidence based approach to nutrition is something you enjoy, check out guys like Alan Aragon, Layne Norton, Brad Schoenfeld, and Lyle McDonald.

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PostTue Dec 02, 2014 10:07 am 
Matt Stone has connected the dots better than anyone else out there IMO. Ray Peat has a lot of thought provoking research, though I prefer Matt's approach.

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PostTue Dec 02, 2014 5:01 pm 
But the american food industrial complex would collapse if folks ate onl;y what their bodies needed... And the diet book / suppliments industry would disappear if americans didn't believe in magic pills that will let them eat cartons of ice cream and still be thin.

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