http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-08/health/fruit.vegetable.cancer_1_cancer-risk-european-prospective-investigation-cancer-rates?_s=PM:HEALTH
Can an observational study prove causality??? NO!!!
Can an observational study disprove causality? I think it can. In short, there remains no evidence that eating fruits and vegetables is protective against cancer.
I think the model inherent in this study is wrong. Instead of thinking "what can I eat to protect me from cancer?", one should think, "why do we moderns get cancer when the traditional folks didn't?"
Some of the traditionals ate a lot of veggies, some didn't, but none had big piles of carbs to eat every day, and those that came the closest still had plenty of grass fed dairy and no seed oils, and they used traditional methods to prepare their carbs (soaking, sprouting, fermenting).
What to do? Eat meat, vegetables, nuts, seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar/no wheat. Supplement vitamin D to reach a minimum of 30 ng/ml, and eat a gram of DHA/EPA per day. And don't listen to the folks who think they know that veggies have some magic cancer fighting power. I think it's far more likely that we create the conditions, in our bodies, by which cancers cells are able to achieve reproductive advantage - primarily by over-consuming carbs and sustaining elevated sugar and insulin levels.
The idea that there's a magic veggie cancer defense simply isn't validated by the evidence.
Can an observational study prove causality??? NO!!!
Can an observational study disprove causality? I think it can. In short, there remains no evidence that eating fruits and vegetables is protective against cancer.
I think the model inherent in this study is wrong. Instead of thinking "what can I eat to protect me from cancer?", one should think, "why do we moderns get cancer when the traditional folks didn't?"
Some of the traditionals ate a lot of veggies, some didn't, but none had big piles of carbs to eat every day, and those that came the closest still had plenty of grass fed dairy and no seed oils, and they used traditional methods to prepare their carbs (soaking, sprouting, fermenting).
What to do? Eat meat, vegetables, nuts, seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar/no wheat. Supplement vitamin D to reach a minimum of 30 ng/ml, and eat a gram of DHA/EPA per day. And don't listen to the folks who think they know that veggies have some magic cancer fighting power. I think it's far more likely that we create the conditions, in our bodies, by which cancers cells are able to achieve reproductive advantage - primarily by over-consuming carbs and sustaining elevated sugar and insulin levels.
The idea that there's a magic veggie cancer defense simply isn't validated by the evidence.
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