AICR: Solving the Diet-Cancer Mystery

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It

sounds like a simple question: Can what we eat influence our risk of cancer? In

fact, finding the answer is a complex puzzle worthy of Sherlock Holmes.

Do you

eat the exact same things every day? Of course not. Most people’s diets

are complex, and they change over weeks, months

and years. To pinpoint associations between diet and cancer, researchers must

dig through this massive menu to isolate the specific effects of individual

foods.

Each

scientific study provides another clue to the evolving mystery of how diet

affects cancer. But as with any good mystery, some clues hold more weight than

others. Since cancer isn’t going to confess to what caused it, no single

piece of evidence gives us all the answers. The “body of evidence”

formed by many studies must be considered as a whole as we investigate the

mystery of the diet-cancer connection.

Click the

link below to help you to understand the studies.

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=res_studies_home