Labour's nanny state wants us to stop eating and drinking
A new inquiry into lifestyle and cancer has issued several stark recommendations. They include not gaining weight as an adult, avoiding sugary drinks and alcohol, and not eating bacon or ham. Everyone must also aim to be as thin as possible without becoming underweight.
Health Direct is puzzled that labour's centralist edicts do not cover smoking. Does labour think that having burnt £500 million on their nanny state anti smoking campaigns that nobody smokes any more? If so how wrong are their health wazzocks!
On October 22, Health Direct posted: Nanny state burns £500m on failed anti smoking campaigns
The National Health Service has spent almost £500m on services to stop people smoking but with no discernible impact on either the proportion of the adult population that smokes or the numbers smoking.
People with a Body Mass Index (BMI), a calculation which takes into account height and weight, of between 18.5 and 25, are deemed to be within a "healthy" weight range.
But the study says their risk increases as they head towards the 25 mark, and that everyone should try to be as close to the lower end as possible.
There is no new research involved in this document: the panel examined 7,000 existing studies over five years.
The result, they say, is the most comprehensive investigation ever into the risks of certain lifestyle choices.
Labour wants you to stop now:
RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDE:
Little red meat
No alcohol
Avoid bacon, ham, and other processed meats
No sugary drinks
No fruit juice
No weight gain after 21 (Presumably your age rather than IQ)
Exercise every day
Breastfeed children
Do not take dietary supplements to cut cancer
The nannies see body fat as a key factor in the development of cancer, estimating its significance to be much higher than previously thought.
The report's authors say they have produced a list of recommendations, not "commandments".
"But if people are interested in reducing their cancer risk, then following the recommendations is the way to do it," said Professor Martin Wiseman.
"Cancer is not a fate, it is a matter of risk, and you can adjust those risks by how you behave. It is very important that people feel that they are in control of what they do."
However, two-thirds of cancer cases are not thought to be related to lifestyle, and there is little people can do to prevent the disease in these circumstances.
Nevertheless, more than three million of the 10 million cases of cancer which are diagnosed across the world each year could be prevented if the recommendations were followed, Professor Wiseman indicated.
In the UK alone, there are 200,000 new cases of cancer each year.
Cancers of the colon and breast are some of the most common forms of the disease, and the report says the evidence is "convincing" that body fat plays a key role in the development of these tumours.
The report also links the kind of food consumed to cancers, especially colorectal ones.
In particular, researchers say people should stop eating processed meats, such as ham, bacon and salami, and limit the consumption of red meat to 500g a week - although this still means you could eat, for instance, five hamburgers each week.
" Alcohol, red meat and bacon in moderation will do us no harm, and to suggest it will is wrong",
Karol Sikora a Cancer specialist
From a cancer perspective, all alcohol should be avoided, although researchers accepted drinking small amounts could have protective benefits for other diseases.
The recommendation is therefore no more than two drinks a day for a man, and no more than one for a woman, slightly less than current UK government guidelines.
Sugary drinks meanwhile should be avoided, as these make you fat, and fruit juice consumption should also be reduced.
The report is also the first to urge breastfeeding as a means to protect against cancer, arguing that it may reduce breast cancer in the mother and prevent obesity in the child - although this has not been proven.
Cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora said: "The educational message for the public should be that there are healthy diets and unhealthy diets but we should keep everything in perspective and not suggest rigid avoidance.
Antonia Dean, a specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said: "it is notoriously difficult to examine the potential role of diets or other lifestyle factors on breast cancer, as it is hard to isolate specific influences or establish how they might interact with each other.
"It is important that women keep the report findings in perspective - after gender, the highest known risk factor in relation to breast cancer is age, with 80 per cent of cases occurring in women over the age of 50."
From:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7069914.stm
Health Direct is puzzled that labour's centralist edicts do not cover smoking. Does labour think that having burnt £500 million on their nanny state anti smoking campaigns that nobody smokes any more? If so how wrong are their health wazzocks!
On October 22, Health Direct posted: Nanny state burns £500m on failed anti smoking campaigns
The National Health Service has spent almost £500m on services to stop people smoking but with no discernible impact on either the proportion of the adult population that smokes or the numbers smoking.
People with a Body Mass Index (BMI), a calculation which takes into account height and weight, of between 18.5 and 25, are deemed to be within a "healthy" weight range.
But the study says their risk increases as they head towards the 25 mark, and that everyone should try to be as close to the lower end as possible.
There is no new research involved in this document: the panel examined 7,000 existing studies over five years.
The result, they say, is the most comprehensive investigation ever into the risks of certain lifestyle choices.
Labour wants you to stop now:
RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDE:
Little red meat
No alcohol
Avoid bacon, ham, and other processed meats
No sugary drinks
No fruit juice
No weight gain after 21 (Presumably your age rather than IQ)
Exercise every day
Breastfeed children
Do not take dietary supplements to cut cancer
The nannies see body fat as a key factor in the development of cancer, estimating its significance to be much higher than previously thought.
The report's authors say they have produced a list of recommendations, not "commandments".
"But if people are interested in reducing their cancer risk, then following the recommendations is the way to do it," said Professor Martin Wiseman.
"Cancer is not a fate, it is a matter of risk, and you can adjust those risks by how you behave. It is very important that people feel that they are in control of what they do."
However, two-thirds of cancer cases are not thought to be related to lifestyle, and there is little people can do to prevent the disease in these circumstances.
Nevertheless, more than three million of the 10 million cases of cancer which are diagnosed across the world each year could be prevented if the recommendations were followed, Professor Wiseman indicated.
In the UK alone, there are 200,000 new cases of cancer each year.
Cancers of the colon and breast are some of the most common forms of the disease, and the report says the evidence is "convincing" that body fat plays a key role in the development of these tumours.
The report also links the kind of food consumed to cancers, especially colorectal ones.
In particular, researchers say people should stop eating processed meats, such as ham, bacon and salami, and limit the consumption of red meat to 500g a week - although this still means you could eat, for instance, five hamburgers each week.
" Alcohol, red meat and bacon in moderation will do us no harm, and to suggest it will is wrong",
Karol Sikora a Cancer specialist
From a cancer perspective, all alcohol should be avoided, although researchers accepted drinking small amounts could have protective benefits for other diseases.
The recommendation is therefore no more than two drinks a day for a man, and no more than one for a woman, slightly less than current UK government guidelines.
Sugary drinks meanwhile should be avoided, as these make you fat, and fruit juice consumption should also be reduced.
The report is also the first to urge breastfeeding as a means to protect against cancer, arguing that it may reduce breast cancer in the mother and prevent obesity in the child - although this has not been proven.
Cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora said: "The educational message for the public should be that there are healthy diets and unhealthy diets but we should keep everything in perspective and not suggest rigid avoidance.
Antonia Dean, a specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said: "it is notoriously difficult to examine the potential role of diets or other lifestyle factors on breast cancer, as it is hard to isolate specific influences or establish how they might interact with each other.
"It is important that women keep the report findings in perspective - after gender, the highest known risk factor in relation to breast cancer is age, with 80 per cent of cases occurring in women over the age of 50."
From:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7069914.stm
Labels: cancer, cancer-survival, Labour shambles, nanny state
posted by Dr Search- Principal Consultant at the Search Clinic at
9:41 AM
2 Comments:
"Labour wants you to stop now..."
Hang on, it might be a little harder to paint this as a piece of party political propaganda if you'd mentioned that the report, authored by Dr Wiseman, was published by the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research. It had nothing to do with the UK government.
If you want your blog to be taken seriously, you need to stop using silly phrases like "health wazzocks". (This comes at the end of a paragraph which again seeks to suggest that this is a government policy, rather than a published paper from two specialist cancer research organisations.)
Similarly, silly 'jokes' about "age rather than IQ" call into question your serious intent.
Here is a more balanced presentation of the report, from New Scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626284.000-ten-ways-to-avoid-cancer.html
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John, at 3:51 PM
Hello John
Thank you for your interest in the Health Direct Blog.
Your comments about the terminology used in that post including the word "wazzocks" was quite correct inasmuchas it was unprofessional phraseology.
Thank you for you pointing out it's useage.
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Dr Search- Principal Consultant at the Search Clinic, at 9:28 AM
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