Largest Study Ever

The largest prospective nutrition study ever published suggests animal fat may play a role in the development of pancreatic cancer.

March 31, 2011

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Otsuki M, Tashiro M. Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, lifestyle-related diseases. Intern Med. 2007;46(2):109-13. Hart AR, Kennedy H, Harvey I. Pancreatic cancer: a review of the evidence on causation. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008 Mar;6(3):275-82. Population Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. a.hart@uea.ac.uk Thiébaut AC, Jiao L, Silverman DT, Cross AJ, Thompson FE, Subar AF, Hollenbeck AR, Schatzkin A, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ. Dietary fatty acids and pancreatic cancer in the NIH-AARP diet and health study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009 Jul 15;101(14):1001-11. Lucenteforte E, Talamini R, Bosetti C, Polesel J, Franceschi S, Serraino D, Negri E, La Vecchia C. Macronutrients, fatty acids, cholesterol and pancreatic cancer. Eur J Cancer. 2010 Feb;46(3):581-7. Chan JM, Wang F, Holly EA. Sweets, sweetened beverages, and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large population-based case-control study. Cancer Causes Control. 2009 Aug;20(6):835-46.
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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 other videos on animal products. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

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Crone1960

Thank you for this video. It is a bit chilling! So do you suspect that it is the way animals are farmed, fed and managed that is affecting so many people’s health, rather than the actual meat itself?

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Toxins

Hello Crone,

There’s more to meat than contamination. Let me explain.

This study discussed animal fat as the culprit of pancreatic cancer, not the contaminants associated with it. The china study showed that we could completely eliminate heart disease by simply not eating animal products or processed foods.
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/china-study-on-sudden-cardiac-death/
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/eliminating-the-1-cause-of-death/
Animal products are also the only natural source of trans fat in which the upper limit is recommended to be 0.
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/good-great-bad-killer-fats/
It has also been suggested by Dr. McDougall referencing Dr. Swank, that reducing fat intake “not more than 40 to 50 grams of total fat (compared to 150 to 175 grams in the American/Canadian diet) and 0 to 15 grams of saturated fat (compared to 140 to 165 grams).” could eliminate multiple sclerosis (auto immune disease) “There was no limit on the amount of carbohydrate from starches, vegetables, and fruits.” This is nearly impossible on a diet that includes meat in ones diet.

Furthermore, eliminating animal products will reverse auto immune diseases such as arthritis and the like.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2009nl/jan/ms.htm

Plants can also cease the growth of cancer, while meat actively promotes its growth.
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/veggies-vs-cancer/
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/1-anticancer-vegetable/

Plants are also the only foods to increase lifespan significantly
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/repairing-dna-damage/
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/research-into-reversing-aging/
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/mitochondrial-theory-of-aging/

There is much more to be said about meat but i think you understand the implications.

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chewy

are crabohydrates such as plain organic puffed rice(100% whole grain brown rice only ingredient) and plain unsalted organic brown rice cakes “safe” and healthy foods too?

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Toxins

These are indeed healthy foods. Just do not make it a staple of your diet as these foods tend to be cooked at high temperatures and when carbohydrates are cooked at high temperatures carcinogenic acrylamides tend to form.

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chewy

are these specific foods less acrylamide containing than say baked potatoes?

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Toxins

Meats do not form as much acrylamides as carbohydrates based foods, like cereal grains and breads. Check out the chart at this link.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/june/050600acrylamide.htm

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chewy

thanks toxins. i am a vegan following the mcdougall plan

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johnduda

Thanks Dr. Greger, for an incredibly informative website. I do like to check some of the sources myself and thought readers might like to know that the NIH-AARP study was not in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology as suggested in the video, but rather the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2009);101:1001-1011. Thanks again

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