Yahoo – AFP,
15 February 2018
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| Scientists suggested on Thursday a link between cancer and "ultra-processed" foods |
Scientists
suggested on Thursday a link between cancer and "ultra-processed"
foods such as cookies, fizzy drinks and sugary cereals, though outside experts
cautioned against reading too much into the study results.
Researchers
from France and Brazil used data from nearly 105,000 French adults who
completed online questionnaires detailing their intake of 3,300 different food
items.
This was
compared to cases of diagnosed cancer among the group.
"The
results show that a 10-percent increase in the proportion of ultra-processed
foods in the diet was associated with increases of 12 percent in the risk of
overall cancer and 11 percent in the risk of breast cancer," said a press
statement from The BMJ which published the research.
No
significant association was found for prostate or colorectal cancer.
Foods on
the list included packaged breads, buns, pizzas and cakes, crisps,
industrially-produced desserts, sodas, fish and chicken nuggets, instant
noodles and soups, and frozen ready meals.
Previous
research had linked processed foods high in sugar, fat, and salt to obesity,
high blood pressure and high cholesterol, but firm evidence for increased
disease risk has been "scarce", the team said.
They
stressed their research showed no more than a correlation between a diet high
in ultra-processed foods and cancer. This could be coincidental, and does not
prove conclusively that these types of food actively cause cancer.
Ian
Johnson, a nutrition researcher from the Quadram Institute Bioscience in
England, said the authors identified "some rather weak associations, of
low statistical significance."
"The
problem is that the definition of ultra-processed foods they have used is so
broad and poorly defined that it is impossible to decide exactly what, if any,
causal connections have been observed," he said in comments via the
Science Media Centre.
Tom Sanders
of the King's College London agreed that the term "ultra-processed
food" was "difficult to define".
"The
definition excludes many home-made or artisanal foods such as bread, cakes,
biscuits, butter, meat, cheese, tinned fruit and vegetables as well as sugar
and salt used in domestic food preparation," he said.
"From
a nutritional standpoint, this classification seems arbitrary and based on the
premise that food produced industrially has a different nutritional and
chemical composition from that produced in the home or by artisans. This
is not the case."
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