31 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 24 May \ on: Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer science
Nutrition science is just so unreliable it's impossible to get us monkeys to comply with any diet for more than a week. The best diet is simply "less". Eat what you want, in moderation, unless you have a specific medical condition (Diabetes, true Celiac etc)
Life is just too short to not enjoy food by not eating carbs/meat etc. Most dietary zealots are selling you something. I've seen way too many cases of people who do everything right- never did drugs/alcohol/smoke, ran marathons, no family history etc who ended up with a completely random cancer anyway or got hit by a bus and died.
Even with family history, your absolute risk for most individual cancer types is miniscule, so some study saying blueberries decreases your risk of studied cancer A by 33% is not impressive if you go from a whopping 1% to 0.66% and it actually increased your risk of unstudied cancer B by 50%
The best thing you can do to prevent cancer is not be too nice. Nice people always get the worst cancers, that's just a fact.
"Everything in moderation" or "there are no bad foods" are nonsensical terms espoused by the food industry to justify eating their industrial sludge.
Random rare genetic cancers may not be preventable. But if you model your diet based on what humans evolved to eat, you'll be metabolically healthy. If you are metabolically healthy, you remove the risk of a whole plethora of health conditions including cancer.
Also, most nutritional studies are observational and based on weak data. Outcomes are often nothing better than random. We dont take nutritional advice from nutritionists.