following plant-based diets tend to have strikingly low cancer rates.
In rural Asia and Africa, for example, traditional diets are based on rice or other grains, starchy vegetables, fruits, and beans, and people eating these diets generally avoid the disease. When it does strike, they also seem to have better survival.
When these populations trade their traditional diets for a menu based on Western foods—either because they have migrated or because fast-food restaurants and other Western food purveyors have come to them—their cancer rates promptly change.
Here some of case study on how diets change can affect the cancer rates:
In Japan, dramatic diet changes began after World War II. Traditional rice dishes were gradually replaced with hamburgers. Dairy products, which had been almost unknown in Japan, became popular. Carbohydrate intake fell, and fat consumption soared. Soon, cancer rates began to rise, as did the toll of obesity, heart problems, and other diseases. In this case, fatty foods boost the hormones that promote cancer. Specifically, diets rich in meat, dairy products, fried foods, and even vegetable oils cause a woman’s body to make more estrogen. Then,that extra estrogen
increases cancer risk in the breast and other organs that are sensitive to female sex hormones.
You may wonder what is estrogen, right?
Estrogen is hormone that makes things grow. As an young girl develops a mature figure, she experiences estrogen’s ability to stimulate the growth of breast tissue. The hormone also thickens the lining of the uterus every month as a woman’s body prepares for the possibility of pregnancy.
Estrogen not only makes normal tissues grow. It can also make cancer cells grow. When researchers add a bit of estrogen to breast cancer cells in a test tube, they multiply rapidly. That why women is tend to be breast cancer victimes that a man.
In medicane treatment for breast cancer, reducing estrogen’s effects by using drugs, like tamoxifen, in order to block estrogen’s activity.
Diets also play a roll in influence estrogen’s effect, When a woman begins a low-fat diet, the amount of estrogen in her blood drops almost immediately. In a matter of weeks, the amount in her bloodstream drops by 15 to 50 percent, depending on how low in fat her diet. She will still have more than enough estrogen for fertility, but she will nonetheless have less estrogen than before. From the cancer prevention standpoint, that’s a good thing. It means there will be
less stimulus for cancer cell growth. :)
As conclusion, Fatty foods boost the hormones—estrogen and testosterone—that promote cancer.
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