No Butts About It: There’s Cancer on the Lunch Line for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
"It’s bound to be the butt of some playful public awareness campaigns this month, but colorectal cancer is far from funny – and it will take more than jokes to end the epidemic. The disease will kill more than 4,000 Americans during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month alone. It's the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States."
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"It’s bound to be the butt of some playful public awareness campaigns this month, but colorectal cancer is far from funny – and it will take more than jokes to end the epidemic. The disease will kill more than 4,000 Americans during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month alone. It's the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States."
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The Association of Red and Processed Meat, and Dietary Fibre with Colorectal Cancer in UK Biobank
In these preliminary analyses from UK Biobank, consumption of red meat was associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
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In these preliminary analyses from UK Biobank, consumption of red meat was associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
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A High Fiber Diet Reduce the Risk of Colorectal Cancer
Dietary fiber, especially from whole grains, may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.
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Dietary fiber, especially from whole grains, may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.
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Don’t Forget Fiber
"Those eating the standard American diet have very high levels of a long list of diseases—such as heart disease and colon cancer—that were similar to the rates of disease in the ruling white class in apartheid Africa. Conversely, the rates in the Bantu population were very low. These native Africans ate the same three sister diets of many Native Americans, a plant-based diet centered around corn, beans, and squash. In fact, it was reported that cancer was so seldom seen in American Indians a century ago they were considered practically immune to cancer—and heart disease."
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"Those eating the standard American diet have very high levels of a long list of diseases—such as heart disease and colon cancer—that were similar to the rates of disease in the ruling white class in apartheid Africa. Conversely, the rates in the Bantu population were very low. These native Africans ate the same three sister diets of many Native Americans, a plant-based diet centered around corn, beans, and squash. In fact, it was reported that cancer was so seldom seen in American Indians a century ago they were considered practically immune to cancer—and heart disease."
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Dietary Legume Consumption Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer
"Findings from our meta-analysis supported an association between higher intake of legume and a reduced risk of CRC."
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"Findings from our meta-analysis supported an association between higher intake of legume and a reduced risk of CRC."
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