Talk:Study links breast cancer to Western diet

This is actually misleading—the study links breast cancer to Western diets, including candy, dairy, and bread consumption, not simply "high meat consumption". The article needs to be moved. 72.8.96.166 03:50, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Prevalance of breast cancer
The article says what the increase is in the likeliness of breast cancer. I think that this sounds potentially misleading without also saying what the actual rate of breast cancer is in each group. I suspect that the correlation isn't as impressive as the article suggests.


 * The article -conveniently- doesn't mention the incidence. However the odds ratio for those differences is 1.0-1.7 (95% CI)... --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:22, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps the women with the sweet-meat diet have a higher incidence of breast cancer not because of what they did eat, but because of what they didn't eat - the sprouts/mung beans etc are Nitrilosidic foods - the list of these foods includes:

alfalfa sprouts, bamboo shoots, mung bean sprouts barley, buckwheat, maize, millet blackberries, currants, cassava, cranberries, gooseberries loganberries, quince, raspberries, strawberries, yams brown rice, fava beans, lentils and many pulses like kidney beans, lima beans and field beans flax seed, linseed pecans, macadamia nuts, cashews, walnuts watercress, sweet potato almonds and the seeds of lemons, limes, cherries, apples, apricots, prunes, plums and pears.

As a global population we eat less and less of these foods - interesting to note though that while rates of cancer incidence in Africa are increasing (partly due to tobacco use increases) cancer accounts for a far lower percentage of deaths than in developed country - and interestingly the traditional african diet is higher in maize, millet, cassava, yams, sweet potato, pulses generally and certain nuts. So perhaps it is not the food they are adding to their diets that are causing increasing rates but the foods they stop eating. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.103.195.27 (talk) 02:00, 8 March 2008 (UTC)