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Oncology, Oncology

Chemical Carcinogens: How Safe Are You?

I would like to turn your attention toward a nagging question about foods, namely carcinogens in foods. We hear so much about them but what, really, are they? Mainly we've heard that carcinogens cause cancer and anticarcinogens prevent cancer. This idea was well articulated in an article by...

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Oncology

Thyroid Cancer

Overview and Risk Factors Thyroid cancers are uncommon, accounting for less than 1% of all cancers. However, incidence has risen significantly during the past half century, possibly the result of radiation therapy to the head and neck used to treat benign childhood conditions in the...

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Oncology, Oncology

Genetic Seeds of Disease: How to Beat the Odds

How often these days do you read that genes cause cancer? Probably nothing in biomedical science deserves more attention. In my view, it even needs attention in nutrition newsletters. Why? Because there's a peculiar line of reasoning going around that goes something like this: If genes are...

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Oncology

Lung Cancer

Overview and Risk Factors Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death for men and women worldwide. It is the most frequently occurring cancer in men and the third most frequent in women. Lung cancer usually develops within the epithelium of the bronchial tree and subsequently invades the...

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Oncology

Diet during Cancer Treatment

There are no current evidence-based recommendations for diet therapy during cancer treatment, due in part to the heterogeneous nature of this disease. Because of the frequency of loss of appetite and severe weight loss (cachexia) in many cancer patients, clinical efforts often focus on increasing...

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Oncology

Lymphoma

Overview Lymphomas are a group of malignancies of lymphoid tissue. They are classified as either non-Hodgkin's or Hodgkin's lymphoma. While lymphomas generally affect lymph nodes or lymphoid tissue, such as the spleen, they can also affect extranodal tissue, such as the lung, liver, or...

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Animal Protein as a Carcinogen

Answer to a Reader's Question:

Although there are many arguments favoring the nutritional imbalance explanation of cancer, one of the more striking for me was the experimental animal studies discussed in Chapter 3 in my book, The China Study. Namely, aflatoxin is a very potent...

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Oncology, Oncology, Men's Health

Prostate Cancer

The toll from prostate cancer is immense. In the U.S., one out of every ten men will be diagnosed with this devastating disease. In striking contrast are Chinese men who have the lowest advanced prostate cancer rates in the worldone in every 100,000. While we don't know all the factors leading to...

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by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health. As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

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Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.