Cancer Risk' in highly processed foods

Most of the snacks of life in busy life are now occupied by cakes, chicken nuggets and bread-bananas. These foods fall into the 'highly processed' food list. French researchers say there may be any links to these foods with cancer. After studying over 100,000 people, they reached the decision. Most of the participants are middle age women. Researchers surveyed participants for five years in the survey.

In the study scientists have found that the greater the presence of highly processed foods in the diet, the greater the risk of cancer.

France's Saron University of Paris City University researcher conducted the survey on human diet. The results of the study were published Wednesday in British Medical Journal.

Which are the most processed foods?
The list is the most widely prepared and marketed bread and banana. There are chocolate bars and confectionery. Sweet or savory snacks, soda and sweet drinks, meatballs, poultry and fish nuts, instant noodles and soup, frozen or preserved foods preserved for long periods of time and food made with sugar, oil and fat.

The World Health Organization has already said that processed meat slightly increases the risk of cancer. In addition to smoking, obesity has been identified as one of the biggest preventable causes of cancer. In this case, modest diet is the easiest way to get rid of cancer risk.

The results obtained in the study
According to the research published in the British Medical Journal, if the amount of highly processed foods in the diet increases by 10 percent, then the number of patients diagnosed with cancer increases by 12 percent. An average 18 percent of people depend on highly processed food. And on average, 79 people of 10 thousand people are diagnosed with cancer.

In the conclusion of the article, researchers have said that the number of cancer patients will increase dramatically in the coming decades due to the rapid increase in the dependency on processed food. However, they said that they needed more research in this regard.

Alerts
Ian Johnson of the Kuudram Institute of the United Kingdom said that the definition used by the highly processed food researchers, its range is much larger. Therefore, this study does not explain the functioning of cancer with highly processed foods.