R.B.
05-20-2006, 03:36 PM
This is a review on the role of fats in cancer.
PLEASE PLEASE take the time to have a look at it.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/79/6/935
It explains some current thinking on why the type of fat you eat may be implicated in cancer.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/vol79/issue6/images/large/znu0060401780002.jpeg
It brings a huge amount of information together in one place. It is the most comprehensive overview I have found to date.
My suggestion is print it out and go back to it occasionally.
It does not matter if you don't understand the technical detail, {each area is almost an area of study in its own right - I have read round the subject quite a lot and I dont pretend to understand more than some surface jist - but like your car you dont need to know how it works, just how to operate it}
If you think fats are in any way simple check out table one - click on it to make it bigger.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/vol79/issue6/images/large/znu0060401780001.jpeg
In addition to these direct pathways I have seen articles on a host of other pathways PPARs, Leptin, Insulin.......... that link to cancers...........by which fats act directly or indirectly in the regulation of things that regulate things that relate to cancer......... It is hugely complex - every door you open simply seems to lead onto more, or back to one you have already opened but heading in a different direction..
But like your car you just have to worry about what you put in, how you drive it and what comes out the exhaust, which is rather simpler. (except the garages have not yet worked out how it all works and only have a fairly rudamentary repair kit)
Balancing your omega threes and sixes comes with limited side effects, is generally recognised to contribute to health, and surely if there is even a significant chance it may help reduce the chance of occurence or reoccurence has to be worth at least considering.
If somebody tells you it wont make any difference ask them to read this.
Please discuss major dietary changes with your advisors.
RB
PLEASE PLEASE take the time to have a look at it.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/79/6/935
It explains some current thinking on why the type of fat you eat may be implicated in cancer.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/vol79/issue6/images/large/znu0060401780002.jpeg
It brings a huge amount of information together in one place. It is the most comprehensive overview I have found to date.
My suggestion is print it out and go back to it occasionally.
It does not matter if you don't understand the technical detail, {each area is almost an area of study in its own right - I have read round the subject quite a lot and I dont pretend to understand more than some surface jist - but like your car you dont need to know how it works, just how to operate it}
If you think fats are in any way simple check out table one - click on it to make it bigger.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/vol79/issue6/images/large/znu0060401780001.jpeg
In addition to these direct pathways I have seen articles on a host of other pathways PPARs, Leptin, Insulin.......... that link to cancers...........by which fats act directly or indirectly in the regulation of things that regulate things that relate to cancer......... It is hugely complex - every door you open simply seems to lead onto more, or back to one you have already opened but heading in a different direction..
But like your car you just have to worry about what you put in, how you drive it and what comes out the exhaust, which is rather simpler. (except the garages have not yet worked out how it all works and only have a fairly rudamentary repair kit)
Balancing your omega threes and sixes comes with limited side effects, is generally recognised to contribute to health, and surely if there is even a significant chance it may help reduce the chance of occurence or reoccurence has to be worth at least considering.
If somebody tells you it wont make any difference ask them to read this.
Please discuss major dietary changes with your advisors.
RB