If you have a family history of cancer then you are considered a high risk individual for manifesting the disease in the future but even if your family history is clear you still need to be extra careful.. why? Because the percentages of cancer patients are going up and numbers don't lie.
Several of the most common and aggressive cancers have to do with your gastrointestinal system. The function of your body that processes the food you eat, distributes it around your body as needed, and does its best to dump the leftover toxins. The intake of a Western diet with a high amount of red meat is associated with a high risk for colon cancer. It is possible that the iron carrier of red meat, is involved in diet-induced colonic epithelial damage, resulting in increased epithelial proliferation which supposedly increases the risk for colon cancer. In NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study it was found that people whose red meat intake was in the top fifth of the range of intakes recorded in the study (the highest quintile of consumption) had an increased risk of developing colorectal, liver, lung, and esophageal cancer when compared with people in the lowest quintile of consumption.
Another study suggests that intakes of red meat and dairy products appear to be related to increased risk of metastatic prostate cancer.
Not only will eliminating these foods lower your cancer risk, you’re going to feel (and look) better from the inside out.
Now that we know should we change our diet? We sure need to do so in order to preserve ourselves and our loved ones.
It is now a question of taking action and discipline.
This post comes from a red meat lover and an almost daily meat consumer.