Poor Diet Associated with CancerFriday, March 03, 2017
U.S., March 3 -- According to a new study by a team of researchers from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in Los Angeles, people who consume a poor diet, such as food items which are high in sugar content, refined carbohydrates, and red and processed meat, may be at an increased risk of suffering from cancer. For the study, the researchers selected more than 45,000 women who were followed for 22 years. The researchers designed a questionnaire inquiring about food that the participants consumed when they were in their teen and early adulthood. The researchers gave an inflammatory score to the diets, based on a method that links diet with established inflammatory markers in the blood. The findings of the study revealed that the women who ate a high-sugar, refined carbohydrate diet showed greater levels of inflammatory markers in the blood. The findings of the study were published in the journal, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.