Re: Red Meat NO GOOD, Veggies no protection.... NOW WHAT?

From: Juhana Harju (shantigiri_at_despammed.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:36:22 +0200

BoB wrote:
> Juhana Harju wrote:
>
>>> http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=468678
>>
>>
>> I would be delighted to announce that eating more vegetables and
>> fruits would prevent breast cancer but look at this excerpt from the
>> study above:
>>
>> "Inverse associations between intakes of fruits and vegetables and
>> breast cancer risk have been reported in a notably large number of
>> case-control studies [90]. However, in the pooled analysis of eight
>> large prospective studies (7377 cases among 351,825 women), only weak
>> and nonsignificant associations were seen with increasing
>> consumption of fruit and vegetables [91]. Comparing highest with
>> lowest quartiles, RRs were 0.93 (95% CI = 0.86-1.00) for total
>> fruits, 0.96 (0.89-1.04) for total vegetables, and 0.93 (0.86-1.00)
>> for total fruits plus vegetables. A thorough search among specific
>> fruits and vegetables and botanical groups did not reveal any
>> significant associations.
>
> The vegetables probably have to be raw. Many studies show a null
> effect
> for cooked vegetables, but protective effect for raw non-starchy
> vegetables.
> Also I suspect that the consumption in the highest quartile or
> quintile
> in the
> null effect studies is not high enough.
>
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>
> Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004 Sep;13(9):1422-35.
>
> Raw versus cooked vegetables and cancer risk.
>
> Link LB, Potter JD.
>
> Cancer Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
> University, New
> York, New York 10032, USA. lbl10@columbia.edu
>
> This review of the medical literature from 1994 to 2003 summarizes the
> relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and cancer risk and
> examines whether they may affect cancer risk differently.
> Twenty-eight studies examined
> the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and risk for
> various cancers.
> [...]

Thanks, BoB, for a good posting. 

-- 
Juhana

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