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Hot Dogs & Leukemia

How much cancer risk can be avoided through lifestyle change?

November 22, 2010 |
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Hot Dogs & Leukemia, 5.0 out of 5 based on 2 ratings

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Acknowledgements

Image thanks to stu_spivack.

Transcript

We do have to put this risk into context. Our children are 7 times more likely to develop a brain tumor eating just a single hot dog a week than using a cell phone. In fact if our children insist on wanting to be Oscar Myer weiners, they are multiplying their odds of getting childhood leukemia by 950%.
Diet is the number one cause of cancer. Cancer is a preventable disease, but it does require major lifestyle changes. Only 5-10% of cancer is in our genes, our family history. 90 to 95% of cancer is caused by what you expose your body to. Of the 90-95%, tobacco contributes about a quarter of the risk in the United States. There are some infectious causes, particularly in people with AIDS, but diet, if you include obesity and alcohol, makes up about 50% of our cancer risk, and cell phones, air pollution, x-rays, everything else all just fits into this last 10-15%.
Anything about our diet in particular? From a massive new study in Canada last year, total meat consumption was directly related to the risk of not only stomach cancer, but colon cancer, and rectal cancer, and pancreatic cancer, and lung cancer, and breast cancer, and prostate cancer, and testicular cancer, and kidney cancer, and bladder cancer, and more leukemia as well.

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.

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Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the prequel "Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?". Also, there arehttp://nutritionfacts.org/topi... covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!

Also, be sure to check out my associated blog posts: Breast Cancer and Diet andAdding FDA-Approved Viruses to Meat.

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/toxins/ Toxins

    Dont forget the China Study!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

    Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the prequel “Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?”. Also, there are http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/ covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

  • Mtmama

    Thank you for this.  WOW!

  • Michael Greger M.D.

    Also be sure to check out my associated blog post Breast Cancer and Diet!

  • Cherie

    I have chronic low white blood cells for several years now.  Two years ago switched to a vegan plant based diet.  My cholesterol dropped from 288 to 228. Blood sugar is better too. My low wbc 3.3 ish is now 2.8 ish.  My g.p. got nervous and sent me to hematology.   McDougall site says some vegans have lower wbc due to lower pathogens, etc.  My rbc are below normal too but not by much. The eosinophils, basophils and the other one are normal.  I am have no symptoms of any blood disorder at this time.  In fact at 57, female, I am amazingly healthy, fit and loving the vegan way of life. I read this site all the time and refer many folks.  I am interested in anything you might know about the low white blood cells.  One more thing.
    I am told that I am a “clumper”.  My blood clumps and is hard to count.

  • Mo s

    why arn’t all these “FACTS” taken to court to sue all these serial killing food producers?

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