why healthy diet is so important?

julinelson1234 · PayPerShop Newbie Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 1

The most comprehensive study ever undertaken on the association between cancer and obesity concludes that excess body fat triggers many types of the disease, as does the consumption of even moderate amounts of alcohol, red meats and processed meats.
The study, released yesterday in Washington by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund, shows food, nutrition and lack of exercise appear critical in causing many cases - perhaps up to one-third - of all cancers. That means controllable lifestyle factors associated with diet and weight have about the same impact on cancer rates as smoking.
"The most striking finding in the report is that excess body fat increases risk for numerous cancers," said Phillip James, one of the study's authors and chairman of the British-based International Obesity Taskforce.
The international team of medical experts, which conducted an exhaustive, five-year review of more than 7,000 research papers that investigated whether food, nutrition or lack of physical exercise had an impact on cancer incidence, made 10 recommendations for preventing the disease. They include eating diets containing large quantities of vegetables and fruits and, most important, staying as thin as possible within the normal range of a person's body weight.
Ten recommendations
� Be as lean as possible within the normal range of body weight.
� Be physically active as part of everyday life.
� Limit consumption of energy-dense foods high in fat and sugar but low in fibre. Avoid sugary drinks.
� Eat mostly foods of plant origin.
� Limit intake of red meat and avoid processed meat.
� Limit alcoholic drinks.
� Limit consumption of salt.
� Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet alone.
� Mothers to breastfeed; children to be breastfed.
� Cancer survivors to follow the recommendations for cancer prevention.

"Cancer is preventable. If you able to find the cancer symptoms earlierThere are changes you can make in your daily life that will reduce your chances of developing cancer," Dr. James said. "Let's get more vegetables, fruits. ... Let's get off our backsides, however and whenever we can."
Among the cancers convincingly linked to excess body fat, particularly if it is carried around the waist, are colon, kidney, pancreas, uterine, adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, and postmenopausal breast cancer.
The new research also made some unusual findings about cancer. One is that there is convincing evidence linking being tall to a higher risk of colorectal and postmenopausal breast cancer. Another is that an association exists between high birth weight and increased risk for premenopausal breast cancer - probably due to body fat.
Although many medical researchers have presented studies before linking cancer to weight and diet, the new study makes the case even more convincingly because it draws together most of the available evidence on the subject. The AICR published a previous study on cancer and body mass 10 years ago, and, at the time, the evidence was only strong enough to link it to uterine cancer - indicating how much scientific research has uncovered in the last decade.

Ian Whyteside · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:26 am Post subject:

Hi everyone,

Is there anyone else like me fed up with the constant bullying and harassment of health professionals who bombard us with this stuff.

To be fair I am a bit stubborn about this and almost stopped eating fruit and veg after I got leaflets about it every day for a week plus had to put up with articles in every newspaper. It only the fact that I really like eating them that stopped me and the healthyness is completely irrelevant to me.

The only thing which can be said about an unhealthy diet is that if it carries you off early there is less of this healthy diet stuff to put up with and lets not forget the scandinavian study which showed that long term the unhealthy members of society cost the medical services much less than the healthy ones.

Interestingly there is a hospital in Scotland which is thinking of restricting services to people who injure themselves at gymnasiums and other fitness activities because they are placing a huge strain on the local NHS!

Mind you, while they are harassing and bullying some sectors of society they are leaving the rest of us alone, for the moment. Wont be long before the rest of us get hit for eating the wrong type of apple, too many strawberries etc.

As an aside does using a blackberry count towards my five portions?

Ian Whyteside

Ian Congreave · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: Promoting medical opinions

Thank you for your comments, Ian. I looked carefully at this message as it may technically be in breach of PayPerShop rule 3, which says

jastina · PayPerShop Newbie Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

I'm 18 years old and am not overweight, but I still want to be skinnier. I have an hour of fitness class in weekdays, so I do exercise; but I really want to figure out a way to diet or any way to lose some weight - and keep it off. My big problem is that my mom is against diets completely, every time she so much as suspects that I'm dieting I get this long speech from her. So you can see my problem; how do I lose weight but not get suspected of dieting?

paypershop · Site Admin Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 18

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