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Scottish study concluded that a diet rich in calorie foods leaves closest individual colorectal tumor to healthy eating
RIO-Soft drinks, cakes, cookies, chips and desserts. All items in this list of goodies were identified as risk factors for bowel cancer, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The study is the first of its kind to find a link between the disease and a diet rich in foods that contain a lot of sugar and fat. The researchers also examined other risk factors among the volunteers, as levels of physical activity and smoking.
The scientists analyzed more than 170 foods, including fruits, vegetables, fish and meat, as well as high-calorie snack foods - such as chocolate, nuts and chips and fruit drinks.
During the research, scientists concluded that colorectal cancer is already known risk factors - such as family history of cancer, low level of physical activity and smoking, but also identified other less studied, including high intake of snacks and high energy sugar-sweetened beverages.
The study - which used data from the Scottish Colorectal Cancer Study - conducted in 2012, based on previous research on the link between bowel cancer and diet. These studies identified two distinct patterns of eating - one rich in fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods, and the Western pattern, rich in meat, fat and sugar.
The Western pattern generates more cancer risk than standard rich in vegetables.
Evropi Theodoratou, School of Health Sciences, Molecular and Population Genetics, University of Edinburgh, said:
- What we found is very interesting and deserves further investigation using large population studies. While the relationship between diet rich in sugar and fat and colorectal cancer does not automatically imply a relationship of cause and effect, it is important to take into account what we found, especially because people in industrialized countries are consuming more of these foods.
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