Smokers may boost cancer chances by eating fruit

[WriteDown]

Source: AFP

THE HAGUE (AFP) – Smokers may increase their chances of contracting colon cancer by eating fruit and vegetables, according to a new Europe-wide scientific study said Wednesday.

A high intake of fruit and vegetables appeared to reduce the risk among non-smokers but seemed to have the reverse effect on smokers, findings by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) showed.

"People who eat 600 grammes or more vegetables and fruit a day appear to have a 20 to 25 percent lower chance of developing colon cancer than people who eat 220 grammes or less," said the statement.

"For smokers, the consumption of vegetables and fruit appears, on the contrary, to increase the chances of colon cancer. Protection against colon cancer through the consumption of vegetables and fruit therefore appears to depend on smoking habits."....

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090415/hl_afp/healthnetherlandseuropediseasecancer

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Not sure what to file this under. Anti-fruit or anti-smoking.

[bemildred]

1. LOL.

:popcorn:

[angstlessk]

2. hell, if you smoke and fall from a tall building and die..,smoking caused your death

IF you smoke..no matter the manner of death...it will always be because you smoke. :shrug:

[virgogal]

6. You've got that right.. It ups the deaths for the rabid anitsmokers.

Pretty funny isn't it?

[angstlessk]

7. it may not be funny, but it does relieve the rest of the polluters from any blame

pesticides, gm foods, formaldihide, flouride...they all get a free pass, cause it is either a smoker or second hand smoke....seems NYC innocents are subject to second hand smoke.,.and all the pollutants otherwise could never cause a death..just smokers!!!

[tridim]

3. What about a fruit juice colonic?

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[NeoConsSuck]

5. Similar to beta carotene supplements

I had read a study that smokers who took these supplements ran a higher risk of contracting lung cancer. Beta carotene is an anti-oxidant, and as an ex-smoker, I take these regulary.

But how many of these studies have been refuted a few years later?

I try to lead a healthy life now, I still take vitamin supplements. I'm not a big vegetable eater anyway.

[jbnow]

10. But the studies were based on fact that eating foods rich

in beta carotene did lower risk in smokers, it was the supplements that seemed to be an issue. (That is they seemed to raise risk in two studies, one showed no difference)

This current study puzzles me but then I haven't read article

[onehandle]

8. Smoking is a major contributor to all kinds of ills.

Those who think that lung cancer is the big risk are fooling themselves.

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[santamargarita]

11. Bullshit!

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[Zavulon]

12. Key word: MAY.

Then again, they MAY lessen the chances, too.

NOTHING strikes me as worthless as a health-related research which can't come up with a stronger conclusion than "may increase this," "may decrease that" and so on.

I'm a smoker, and even though I'm not overly hungry I'm going to go open a can of pears right now.

[DKRC]

13. I'd file it under OMG!!1!

And, next week there will be a study showing just the opposite.

[StarryNite]

21. Awwww

That is the cutest little hamster. :loveya:

[Kali]

14. too lazy to look at link

and it is to a yahoo article anyway - what was the sample size and how were other variables accounted for? Interesting tidbit if any reality to it, though.

[unc70]

15. Probably more BS. Like the red-meat study.

The linked article doesn't have enough info. When I see the actual journal article I will evaluate their experimental design and their analyses.

BTW the red-meat study had the problem that those eating the most red meat also smoked more, exercised less, ... That study also "showed" that people who never smoked and who ate more fish/chicken had increased risk.

[rug]

16. What happens if you eat tobacco?

[harmonicon]

17. well, I guess I'm totally fucked then

Oh well. I love smoking and zucchini. Damn it.

[friedgreentomatoes]

18. Good!

Fruits are expensive.

*proceeds to strike out the fruit names off the shopping list*
:party:

[riverdeep]

19. Well, the only way I could think how this might work,

is that the cancer gets 'fed' by whatever the vegetables provide. Cancer, after all, is unregulated cell growth. Either way, don't smoke seems to be the take home message.

[Starry Messenger]

20. What about smoking banana peels?

Hmm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbcAHjU4QFw

[Bryn]

22. :::::::fakes cough cough cough:::::::::

:)