Eating Lots of Carbs May Raise Cancer Risk (Yahoo Health News)

Summary: On a study of women in Mexico, those who ate the most carbohydrate in their diets were more than twice as likely to get cancer than the ones who ate the least.

First of all, this is one of those preliminary studies that in many senses we shouldn't focus on too much. It is a retrospective study (where they asked breast cancer patients and non-breast cancer patients what they eat) rather than a more valid prospective one (where they track people's eating over time and wait to see what develops). It was done in Mexico, where the overall diet has its own characteristics: a lot of corn, and a higher carb intake in general than the U.S. Still, it fits in with a number of other studies which point to either a diet high in carbohydrate or high glycemic foods (such as sugars and refined starches) playing a contributing role in cancer.

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