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Does this mean a bad diet is preferable when you're fighting off cancer?
by jasfi 3y ago
Does this mean a bad diet is preferable when you're fighting off cancer?
- mistrial9 3y agothere are clusters of very different disease that are all under the label "cancer"... the short answer is "no"
- dundarious 3y ago> The researchers say their findings highlight the potential risk of taking antioxidant supplements when they’re not needed. Emphasis mine.
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- stephen_g 3y agoI’d expect generally very much no - since a bad diet is often going to have a lot of carbs and sugar which is just easy fuel for things like cancer. It seems from studies I’ve read that it causes big problems either having too little or too much antioxidants. I haven’t had time to read this one yet but observational studies seem to pretty overwhelmingly show positive health benefits for a diet that has a relatively high amount of antioxidants, but RCTs giving very large does of antioxidants often have to be terminated early due to adverse effects. So seems like it’s hard to hit the ‘too much’ level with diet but very easy with supplements.
- jasfi 3y agoSorry I should have clarified, I meant no fruit, vegetables or salad. Sounds like terrible advice. But as you say, there should be a threshold you don't want to cross with antioxidants, and supplements can easily do that.
- adamredwoods 3y agoWe've spoken to oncologists and cancer nutritionists, none of them think that what you eat truly can effect cancer or not. So there is no magic food or magic diet that will cure a person of cancer. (Excluding starvation because that can kill the patient and not recommended at all.)