Over 35% of Cancer Patients Are Caused by the Unscientific Diets
China Meat Association recently released a statement: There is no evidence at present that there is not any kind of food (including meat and processed meat) is confirmed to cause or treat any cancer, including gastric cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer and so on.
China Meat Association first stressed that inappropriate diets are one of the causes of cancer, in China’s cancer patients, there are 35% – 50% are due to unscientific diets and other related reasons.
The statement said that the meat is a high protein food, which play an important role in the maintenance of normal physiological function of various tissues of human body has important role. In the early 50’s, China’s average meat consumption is about 6 kilograms every year and the average life-span is just more than 40, but in 2014, the number increased to 63.8 kilograms and the life-span is 76. Practice has proved that the growth of meat production and consumption is one of the important guarantee to the national health.
The statement also stressed that in early 90’s, after the total output of meat in China became the first place in the world, in popular science propaganda has already stressed that inappropriate diets are one of the causes of cancer. Experts pointed out that a reasonable diet can reduce the cancer incidence by 1/3. Meanwhile, the experts also stressed the meat food played an active role in the cancer treatment, and many food therapy recipes also listed the animal meat clearly.
As the vice president of the world meat organization, the statement of the China Meat Association also directly referred to the world meat organization’s attitude: The International Cancer Research Institute Views which were from a working group consists of 10 countries of the 22 scientists. The group’s views did not reach a consensus, and the conclusion is not the consensus of the entire scientific community. The research is just a hazard analysis, not a risk assessment.