As we explained in our previous Column, over the past 50 years, science has gathered a lot of information about the almost diabolic nature of cancer and identified its peculiar characteristics. As previously highlighted, there are unique differences between a cancer cell and a normal cell. One of.
Diet and Cancer: Part III By Alfred I. Neugut | April 22, 2021
We previously discussed the wide discrepancy in cancer rates between the U.S. and Japan, and considered that the differences in dietary fat intake might be responsible in part for it.
If we go back to the 1970s when these hypotheses were being formulated and discussed, the average U.S. intake of fat was 40% of calories. In Japan, the average intake of fat was close to 20%, a huge difference. Indeed, it is likely that this low fat intake was responsible in part for the reduced height of the Japanese relative to their Western counterparts when Japanese migrated to the West, not only did they acquire the cancer rates of the West, they also increased in height.