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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People
who have quit eating steaks for health reasons but still eat chicken
and fish may still have a higher risk of colon cancer, researchers
say. They said so-called white meat is no less likely to
cause cancer than "red meat." But the more peas
and beans a person eats, the lower the risk of colon cancer, they
found. "There is evidence of an excess risk of colon
cancer for higher intakes of both red meat and white meat,"
Dr. Pramil Singh and Dr. Gary Fraser of the Center for Health Research
at Loma Linda University in California wrote in the latest issue
of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Singh and Fraser
used information from the Adventist Health Study, which examines
the health of 34,000 Seventh Day Adventists. They are supposed to
follow a largely vegetarian diet, but many sometimes eat meat.
Between 1977 and 1982 they found 157 cases of colon cancer
in this group. Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer
death in the United States, after lung cancer. People
who said they ate red meat once a week had a 38 percent higher risk
of colon cancer than those who ate no meat. People who reported
sometimes eating white meat had a 55 percent higher risk of colon
cancer compared with vegetarians. The more meat the Adventists
ate, the higher their risk. People who ate red or white meat four
times a week or more had up to 200 percent -- three times -- the
risk of colon cancer. Singh and Fraser said they did not
know why meat had this effect, but diets high in fat and meat, and
low in fruits, vegetables and fiber, have been linked to several
forms of cancer, including colon cancer. Several teams
of researchers have found that cooking red meat produces chemicals
known as heterocyclic aromatic amines, which have been found to
cause tumors in rats and mice. Last year the American
Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund
estimated that as many as 4 million cases of cancer worldwide could
be prevented every year if people ate less meat and more vegetables.
The World Health Organization agrees people should cut
back on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables to avoid cancer.
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