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Cancer Risks and High Carbohydrate Diets

Though there are many publications analysing the link between fat intake and different kinds of cancer, there is a very few looking into connection between cancer and carbohydrate intake.

Did you know that diet and nutrition may be responsible for 56% of the total cancer incidence for women and greater than 44% for men?

Comparing with abundant publications analysing the link between fat intake and different kinds of cancer there is a very few looking into connection between cancer and carbohydrate intake. To clarify the question, researchers at University of Leeds, UK, collected data of forty clinical trials dealing with both dietary carbohydrates and cancer incidence.

Their results showed that 2 out of 8 trials investigating gastric cancer and 7 out of 21 studies of colorectal cancers have found that sugar was a substantial risk factor. One study reported that increased carbohydrate intake was associated with increased incidence of intestinal cancer.

A year later, in the same University of Leeds, researchers analysed the data on international per capita sugar intakes and reported that the higher it was the higher were breast cancer mortality rates.

In Uruguay, to examine whether dietary sugar increases lung cancer risk, a case-control study involving 463 cases with lung cancer . A 1.5-fold increase in risk of lung cancer correlated with increase in consumption of sugar-rich, high-glycemic index foods was reported.

In National Institute of Public Health, researchers conducted a case-control study of 111 biliary tract cancers and found the increased risk associated with increased intake of sugars.
Statistical analysis of eating habits of patients with large bowel cancer showed that they consumed 16% more calories than controls, mainly in the form of carbohydrate. The extra carbohydrate was largely in the form of sugars depleted in fiber and combinations of fat and such sugars.