Vegetarian diet may lower colon cancer risk
Posted: March 10, 2015 at 10:51 pm
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, March 9, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A vegetarian diet might cut your risk of colorectal cancer by 20 percent, a new study finds.
For fish-eating vegetarians, the protective link was even stronger, researchers said.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Screening efforts, including colonoscopy, have helped save many lives by detecting precancerous polyps, said the study's lead researcher, Dr. Michael Orlich.
"However, it is even better to prevent cancers from forming in the first place. We call this primary prevention," said Orlich, who is an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Loma Linda University in California. "Diet is a potentially important approach to reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer."
The new study, which involved more than 77,000 adults, found that people consuming healthy vegetarian diets may have a lower risk of colon and rectal cancers than non-vegetarians, Orlich said.
"Our vegetarians not only ate less meat than the non-vegetarians, but also less sweets, snack foods, refined grains and caloric beverages," he said. And they ate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans and nuts, he added.
Prior evidence has linked eating red and processed meats to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, and consuming fiber-rich foods to a lower risk, Orlich said.
Nevertheless, Dr. Alfred Neugut, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, said no one has identified with certainty why a vegetarian diet would reduce the risk for colon cancer.
It's not known whether there is something in vegetables that is protective or whether something in meat is harmful, he said.
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Organic food back on the menu after sales surge
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Organic food is seeing a revival after a downturn following financial crisis Total sales in 2014 reached 1.86bn, taking it to levels not seen since 2009 Study by Soil Association revealed families are buying more organic food More than a quarter of spending on organic products is in the dairy aisles
By Sean Poulter for the Daily Mail
Published: 17:03 EST, 24 February 2015 | Updated: 19:44 EST, 24 February 2015
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Organic food is seeing a revival with sales up 1.4million a week amid evidence of nutrition benefits and the launch of budget ranges in discount stores.
The market is bouncing back from a disastrous downturn in the wake of the financial crisis and cost of living squeeze that forced families to cut back their food budgets.
Total sales in 2014 exceeded 1.86billion, taking them back up the level last seen in 2009.
Families are buying more organic food, particularly dairy produce, despite the fact that they have made big cut backs on conventionally produced food, according to a study by the Soil Association.
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Cupertino business: OG Sliders is all about food, family and details
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By Kristi Myllenbeck, Correspondnet
The owners of OG Sliders restaurant in Cupertino may not be "original gangsters," but they are doing something that, to them, is all their own.
"The OG stands for organic gourmet," said chef Mike Jenkins, the culinary mastermind and co-owner of the restaurant. "We enjoy good, healthy organic food."
Jenkins had the idea for the restaurant when was tasked with a project while pursuing his bachelor's degree in culinary management.
"It was something that needed to be trendy, for a food truck. I thought, 'What about doing sliders?'--something quick, something organic but really giving the sliders a different twist," he said.
On that basis, Jenkins, his wife Danni and co-owner John Chan formed the idea for OG Sliders, which opened in August at the Oaks Shopping Center near Bluelight Cinema.
In addition to using organic ingredients, OG Sliders makes a point to use locally sourced vegetables, meat and spirits. Even the decor comes from surrounding areas. The restaurant is a rustic blend of stained glass, doodled-on chalkboard paint, handcrafted tables and the aroma of wood-grilled meat. Some of the tables were salvaged from wood used in the old UC-Berkeley football stadium. Sharp-eyed patrons can still see the numbers used on the bleacher seats.
Whereas Mike had culinary ideas, Danni had a vision and made most of the decorating decisions. As a team, they decided to stay true to their roots and decorate with locally sourced products.
"I thought that was the natural thing to do," Danni said. "If everything in the food is centered around local, it only made sense to decorate accordingly. It goes hand in hand."
Though the interior looks polished and high-end, Mike is adamant that they welcome anyone and everyone to a location that was once used as a banquet room.
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Province moves to regulate the definition of ‘organic’ food
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Any farmer can call themselves organic, says Judi Morton. The public doesnt understand that it means nothing.
Morton has grown organic produce and raised organic meat at Tulaberry Farm in the Slocan Valley for the past 20 years.
The BC Ministry of Agriculture is drafting legislation that would require anyone selling products as organic to be certified by a provincially or nationally accredited certifier.
One of those certifiers is Kootenay Organic Growers, of which Morton is a board member and past president. She is also on the board of the Certified Organic Associations of BC. She welcomes the proposed change, as does Jocelyn Carver, the marketing manager at the Kootenay Co-op.
Because organic food is priced higher, Carver says, there is obviously a strong profit motive for a business to use the word organic misleadingly in order to charge more. We have seen this happen with a number of products over the years, actively advocated against it, and called attention to misleading labeling where we are able.
I think it is an important vote for honesty and transparency in advertising, a quality sorely missing in North America, she said.
Jesse Woodward, who runs the Baker Street and Cottonwood markets for the West Kootenay EcoSociety, echoes those opinions and adds, I have talked to a farmer in the valley who is certified organic and worked incredibly hard and spent a fair amount of money getting that done and they feel strongly that because they have done all that work they should be able to truly use the word certified organic.
But I have also heard through the grapevine that some other smaller farmers are feeling hard done by, because they either cannot afford the process of certification or are not willing to go through it, but have what would be considered an organic farm. But like sustainable or green these terms get thrown around, and no one knows what they mean. I think it is a good move to have some rules around it.
What does getting certified involve?
Farmers have to apply to a local certifying organization which, in turn, hires a highly trained independent inspector certified by the International Organic Inspectors Association.
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