Cancer-causing carbohydrates

Cancer study reveals: Avoid "carb-cinogens"

Despite what the cereal commercials, soft-drink billboards, and the
USDA Food Pyramid say, some of us have known for decades
(like the late Dr. Atkins and myself) that a diet high in
carbohydrates — especially refined grains and sugars — is a recipe
for obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and a whole host of other
health problems…

But what about the Big C? So far, not a lot of research has been
done to specifically pinpoint what a high-carbohydrate diet's
effects are on developing the most feared of all diseases: Cancer.

Of course, it doesn't take a genius to see that along with our
waistlines, rates of every major type of cancer have ballooned over
the last 30 years, but the pointy-heads would argue that this is a
mere association, and not indicative of a causal link. In other
words, what looks like a duck and quacks like a duck isn't
necessarily a duck, according to the tunnel-visioned mainstream
medical statisticians.

Finally, though, there's some hard evidence to support what I've
known for years: That a diet high in carbohydrates causes some
types of cancer, and not just by virtue of the fact that such a diet
makes people obese. As reported recently by the Associated Press,
a Mexican study of nearly 200 women showed that those who
consumed a high-carb diet (more than 60% of calories from
carbohydrates) were MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY to
develop breast cancer as women who adopted a lower-carb
approach to eating.

This study supports a similar body of research from last year that
linked a greater risk of breast cancer among women to a diet high
in sugar (especially soft drinks and desserts), the most damaging of
all carbohydrates. Another study from earlier this year suggested
that a high-carb diet may raise the risk of colon cancer.

According to the article, scientists who believe in the carb/cancer
link hypothesize that the extra insulin released to process the
simple carbs and sugars we ingest far too much of causes cells to
divide and also leads to higher levels of estrogen in the blood. Both
of these factors (cellular division and blood estrogen) can
contribute to cancer. 

So what are we doing about it? Are we moving in the right
direction, carb-wise? Not really, if today's obesity trend is any
indication. And since "carb addiction" often starts when we're
young, here's some not-so-encouraging news about what we're
feeding our kids — and what health problems we're setting them
up for in the future...

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The school-lunch blues

Despite the fact that I've written in the past about a few kernels of
relatively encouraging news when it comes to what our kids are
eating and drinking while at school — namely, the fact that both
the Philadelphia and New York school systems have banned soda
and candy machines from public school premises (DailyDose,
3/2/04) — the overall trend in food that's available to our children
while at school continues to be dismally unhealthy.

Even though the low-carb approach to eating has caught on in
restaurants, grocery stores, and even at fast food drive-throughs,
the menus at our school cafeterias (where many kids learn their
eating habits, mind you) are apparently still sticking to the
antiquated Food Pyramid's 11 servings a day of bread and grain
that's made 30% of our population clinically obese.

And while the nation struggles with a current epidemic of
childhood obesity! (Gee, I wonder why?) 

Yes, the pizza and mac-and-cheese continue to be doled out in too-
large portions to school children all across the U.S, despite an
increasing number of parental requests for lower-carb options for
their kids, according to a recent Associated Press story. Even the
President of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians has
come out in support of changing the school-food menu to
something with a more moderate carbohydrate content.

But does this really matter to the Fools on the Hill. Nope. The
fatter we get from the foods they're recommending, the more
money they rake in from taxes on the grain and sugar producers —
and the drug-makers whose poisons doctors will prescribe to
combat the effect that all those carbohydrates will have on us. 

If you've got a child or grandchild in school, do them a favor: Pack
them a lunch every day of something healthy — like tuna fish, egg
salad, or a leftover pork chop and some fresh fruit...

And don't give them any "lunch money" that could end up in a
candy machine (or a bully's pocket).  

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