Comments on: The Biggest Myth About Cancer: That It Just “Happens” http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cancer-myths-and-facts/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:27:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: nornerator http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cancer-myths-and-facts/#comment-37744 nornerator Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:46:42 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cancer-myths-and-facts/#comment-37744 Olive oil should have the lowest "smoke point" of all publicly available oils because it contains the highest amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids have less van der waals forces with each other due to the kinks in their chains caused by the double bonds that are responsible for "unsaturation" While saturated fats like butter have no kinks in their chains and so they can line up with each other and maximize the van der waals forces between each other and therefore have higher boiling points or smoke points. It is true that rancidity is a cause for concern and can cause problems in the body in large doses. Saturated fats are not better for you than unsaturated fats, saturated fats have a higher melting point and can aggregate in the blood vessels. Cancer is an incredibly complex illness that does have a lot to do with your genes. However cancer also has a lot to do with the things you put in your body. It would only make sense that in order to avoid cancer or to reap the benefits of being in good health would be to eat healthy, and exercise. Some of you are being way to polar on your view of clinical studies. Double blind clinical studies are a great resource, they can tell you whether something works or not, or things that are correlated to one another. Double blind studies have their own limitations, and as many have said, correlation is NOT causation. Statistics are important and they really do reflect the real world quite accurately, unfortunately some statistics are misrepresented, either purposefully or not it is each individuals job to do their own research on dubious statistics. We are lied to all the time it is our responsibility as intelligent individuals to check the facts and call people out on their lies. Olive oil should have the lowest “smoke point” of all publicly available oils because it contains the highest amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids have less van der waals forces with each other due to the kinks in their chains caused by the double bonds that are responsible for “unsaturation” While saturated fats like butter have no kinks in their chains and so they can line up with each other and maximize the van der waals forces between each other and therefore have higher boiling points or smoke points.

It is true that rancidity is a cause for concern and can cause problems in the body in large doses.

Saturated fats are not better for you than unsaturated fats, saturated fats have a higher melting point and can aggregate in the blood vessels.

Cancer is an incredibly complex illness that does have a lot to do with your genes. However cancer also has a lot to do with the things you put in your body. It would only make sense that in order to avoid cancer or to reap the benefits of being in good health would be to eat healthy, and exercise.

Some of you are being way to polar on your view of clinical studies. Double blind clinical studies are a great resource, they can tell you whether something works or not, or things that are correlated to one another. Double blind studies have their own limitations, and as many have said, correlation is NOT causation.

Statistics are important and they really do reflect the real world quite accurately, unfortunately some statistics are misrepresented, either purposefully or not it is each individuals job to do their own research on dubious statistics. We are lied to all the time it is our responsibility as intelligent individuals to check the facts and call people out on their lies.

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]]> By: Doug K http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cancer-myths-and-facts/#comment-12776 Doug K Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:18:58 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cancer-myths-and-facts/#comment-12776 This is blaming the victim. The study is fundamentally flawed - it examined only (quote from Chapter 3 of the report) "evidence that aspects of food, nutrition, physical activity, and body fatness can modify the risk of cancer". Since they did not control for the rest of the environmental factors, and ignore the differences between the US 'red meat' that contains a cocktail of antibiotics, hormones, steroids, and other chemicals: and let us say organic grass-fed beef: I really can't put much faith in their conclusions. In fact that's all they do - from the mission statement on their website, "Since 1990, World Cancer Research Fund has been supporting research into the role of diet and nutrition in the prevention of cancer." Certainly diet and nutrition may play a role, but to suggest attention to these alone can prevent cancer, is an insult to all the cancer sufferers who have lived a healthy life. I knew three people who never smoked, ate well and exercised, yet died of lung cancer. How much of cancer is due to the quantities of chemicals in our environment ? http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-closer21may21,1,1963966.story?coll=la-headlines-health Maybe it's melatonin deficiency ? http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-sense31oct31,1,6192729.column Look at the list of factors here, http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=119 Diet and exercise alone aren't going to do it. Offering this as a panacea is dangerously wrong. You want to eat well and exercise because this improves the quality of your life, not because it will prevent cancer: it won't. This is blaming the victim. The study is fundamentally flawed - it examined only (quote from Chapter 3 of the report)
“evidence that aspects of food, nutrition, physical activity, and body fatness can modify the risk of cancer”.

Since they did not control for the rest of the environmental factors, and ignore the differences between the US ‘red meat’ that contains a cocktail of antibiotics, hormones, steroids, and other chemicals: and let us say organic grass-fed beef: I really can’t put much faith in their conclusions.

In fact that’s all they do - from the mission statement on their website,
“Since 1990, World Cancer Research Fund has been supporting research into the role of diet and nutrition in the prevention of cancer.” Certainly diet and nutrition may play a role, but to suggest attention to these alone can prevent cancer, is an insult to all the cancer sufferers who have lived a healthy life. I knew three people who never smoked, ate well and exercised, yet died of lung cancer.

How much of cancer is due to the quantities of chemicals in our environment ?
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-closer21may21,1,1963966.story?coll=la-headlines-health
Maybe it’s melatonin deficiency ?
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-sense31oct31,1,6192729.column
Look at the list of factors here,
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=119
Diet and exercise alone aren’t going to do it. Offering this as a panacea is dangerously wrong. You want to eat well and exercise because this improves the quality of your life, not because it will prevent cancer: it won’t.

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