Vegetarian diet may lower colorectal cancer risk
Posted: March 9, 2015 at 2:52 pm
A new study finds a diet dominated by fruits and vegetables -- with a moderate amount of fish -- could cut your risk for colorectal cancers by nearly 45 percent.
Dr. Ryan Williams did not take part in the study but is a colorectal surgeon at Cleveland Clinic.
"Any of the vegetables and fruits that are high in fiber are the ones we are looking for to help clear out the colon and help decrease that risk of colon and rectal cancer," Williams said.
Loma Lind University researchers studied the diets of nearly 78,000 people. They found vegans had a 16 percent lower risk for all colorectal cancers compared to non-vegetarians
Vegetarians had 22 percent lower risk, but it was a pesco-vegetarian diet, or one that includes a moderate amount of fish, that offered the most protection.
This Mediterranean-style diet lowered colorectal cancer risk by 43 percent.
"It just goes back to what weve been learning over time is that the Mediterranean diet is a really healthy diet that keeps us from developing things such as colon and rectal cancers, heart disease, and other diseases," Williams said.
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Organic Food Festival – Video
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Organic Food, Coonskin Caps and Hula Hoops
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If you weren't alive in the 1950s, you may not be familiar with the Davy Crockett coonskin hat, a $100 million fad touched off by a Walt Disney television series. Like millions of other eight-year-old wanna-be frontiersmen, I wore onefor a while. A short while. This fad flamed out quickly.
Soon we had all moved on to other things, like hula hoops. They were a fad of a different sort, a fad that became something more than a fad.
Fads are short-lived; hula hoops remained popular for decades. Even if you weren't alive in 1958, when hula hoops were first twirled, you probably know about them. They almost disappeared but were reborn. Although not exactly the rage today, they're still around.
And then there's another fad of the '50s, rock music. Rock and roll, as it was originally called, didn't flame or fade, like piano wrecking or panty raids, and it didn't merely hang on, like hula hoops. It evolved and changed and grew. It made the leap from passing fad to something big and broad and permanent. Rock in all its many forms, from rockabilly to rap metal, from proto-punk to post-Britpop, keeps rocking along.
Having examined a variety of fad types, you might wonder about organic food, food produced without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Where in this taxonomy of fads does it fit?
In the 1960s and 1970s organic food had the makings of a fad that would flame out, never to be heard from again. Many saw it as a hippie affectation that would go away when the hippies grew up and got jobs.
Time proved that notion wrong; a coonskin cap it was not. Nor was it a hula hoop exactly; it never enjoyed a spectacular moment in the spotlight, as hula hoops did, when everyone seems to be "doing it."
Instead, organic food may be making the leap rock and roll once made, to something big and long lasting.
Today's organic devotees aren't hippies; they're mainstream Americans. And they no longer have to patronize specialty stories; every supermarket offers organic produce and organic packaged products. There's little chance that future generations will view organic food the way we view, say, goldfish swallowing, as a quaint quirk of a moment in time long past.
In 2012 sales of organic food reached $28.4 billion (http://tiny.cc/), more than 4% of total food sales, and projected to reach $35 billion last year. By one estimate organic-food sales are growing a heady 14% a year (http://tiny.cc/).
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Foods To Buy Organic In 2015, Especially For Fruits And Vegetables
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Each year, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases a list of the "dirty dozen" that is, twelve fruits and vegetables that they highly recommend people should buy organic, as opposed to conventionally grown.
The list, which is based on the pesticide residues found on 48 popular fruit and vegetables, has similar findings this year to past releases. However, two notable additions for 2015 include hot chili peppers and kale/collard greens, which are highlighted because of the types of pesticides being used on the produce.
"Residue tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have found these foods laced with particularly toxic pesticides. Among the chemicals at issue are organophosphate and carbamate insecticides." These types of pesticides attack the nervous system, according to National Geographic, so even though they're used in small doses in North America, people who eat a lot of these types of foods are advised to seek out organic options.
Although pesticides used in Canada, particularly on food, are highly regulated, there are still potential ill effects from ingesting these chemicals, particularly for people with compromised immune systems, according to Prevention magazine. And there are other reasons to consider buying organic produce as well.
As Director of the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada Andrew Hammermeister pointed out in an email to The Huffington Post Canada, eating organic food is not just a matter of reducing pesticide intake.
"Organic foods are an excellent option for consumers that want to reduce exposure to synthetic pesticides, genetically engineered organisms, growth hormones, antibiotics, preservatives, food colouring, flavours etc.," he wrote. But it also benefits ecological sustainability, biodiversity and animal welfare, and reduces environmental exposure to nanotechnology and antibiotics.
Meanwhile, a study reported last year by the CBC noted that half of all organic produce in the country was found to contain pesticides. The reasons ranged from pesticide residue in water or soil, contact with non-organic produce, and of course, the possibility that some farmers are using pesticide when they claim they aren't. From the sample, 1.8 per cent of produce exceeded the allowable limits by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
So what is a consumer who wants to avoid pesticides to do? First of all, eat from the "clean" fruits and veggies on the list below they have the least amount of pesticides, thanks to their thicker (and more protective) skins. Secondly, for the "dirty" produce, consider buying organic. Even though it is possible they'll contain some pesticides, it will be far less than conventionally grown foods.
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SmoothFM uses 80s crooners Spandau Ballet in latest marketing push
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British band Spandau Ballet play in a womans living room in a new campaign for SmoothFM aimed at highlighting the stations relaxing music proposition.
The ad by Big Red is set to air from this Sunday on pay-TV and digital channels, shows a woman getting out of the shower and turning on her radio to the station which is playing the song True. When she is dressed and leaving she walks through her living room where the band is playing live.
Tony Thomas, Nova Entertainment chief digital and marketing officer said: SmoothFMs success is due to it playing a unique role in the busy lives of Australians and this TVC, along with the endorsement from such an amazing artist like Spandau Ballet, showcases the brands benefit beautifully.The New Romantics band alsorecently launched the stations experiential live music brand A Night With, and their hit singles regularly feature on smoothfms playlist, making the group a natural choice to front the new campaign.
It is the second in a series that began with Michael Bubls Havent Met You Yet TVC to launch the station in May 2012.
Spandau Ballets latest album The Story The Very Best Of is currently on sale and the band will tour around Australia in May 2015.
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