Food For Thought In Cancer Prevention, UK

Food for thought?

Yes.

"While changes in lifestyle - particularly in smoking and diet - could dramatically reduce the risk of cancer and the financial burden to the NHS, people often find it difficult to make these changes...

Cancer incidence is increasing and the cost of caring for patients with established malignancy is causing major strains for all healthcare systems...

The increasing understanding of the biological changes associated with carcinogenesis have led to the development of cancer prevention strategies based on the use of targeted agents. The aim of these agents is to delay or prevent the development of malignancy - 'chemoprevention' approaches.

To date the greatest success in this field has come from the use of drugs with shown effect in advanced malignancy. But increasingly research is focused on diet-derived agents that have the potential for efficacy with minimal risk of toxicity."

Here is the food for thought.

We keep hearing that this food or that food is "healthy."

Besides the fact that this is garbage, remember that today's "healthy" food is tomorrow's "unhealthy" food as "cutting edge" research reveals new findings.

Really, new garbage.

Here is a clear admission that researchers simply do not know what it is in some foods that allegedly works, i.e., they are in the dark.

And will be for the foreseeable future.

Then, once they think they are on to something, you can bet that it will be shown to be even more ineffective for one group than another as "researchers have observed striking differences in incidence of many cancers in different societies."

As to toxicity, remember you only find what you look for.

There can be toxicity all over the place, but if you are not looking there, you will miss it.

This is a lesson, most recently, of the heart toxic effects of some drugs that went unnoticed until it was too late for some unfortunate, dead and/or injured people.

The need is for an approach to disease prevention that works for most to all and tends not to make you dead.

If only there were such an approach.

Hmmm...

Try controlling your weight.