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Study links bread-eating with cancer

An Italian study found that people who ate five or more slices of bread a day, or 35 per week, were twice as likely to develop Renal Cell Carcinoma, a leading cause of kidney cancer, as those who ate bread only half as often, or less. The scientists behind the study felt that an increase in blood glucose levels might be a factor in the increased cancer risk. High GI foods are usually things that are highly processed with a lot of sugar or contain a lot of refined white flour. Some sources are saying that the study linked eating white bread with cancer because of this GI link, but "the study did not specify what type of bread [participants] ate," so statements of that sort are just speculation. The study did not actually "establish exactly what in bread may be to blame."

Besides, it seems that a significant portion of the food-related media tries to convince us that in Italy everyone only eats the best bread from their local bakeries, not processed white bread. If the results of the study turned out to be a result of eating three loaves of Wonder Bread each week it might make sense, but baguettes?

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Filed Under: Science, Health & Medical, Ingredients
Tags: bread, cancer, gi, grains, health, high gi, italians, italy, kidney cancer, low, research, risk, science, studies, study, white bread

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Navstar

10-20-2006 @11:32AM Navstar said... If this leads to Renal Cancer, I would think it's all the hard protein in bread that the kidney are having problems with, not sugar.
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MJ

10-20-2006 @4:26PM MJ said... Gosh, can we eat anything without being harmed.......Die happy........end of story!
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Dieter

10-20-2006 @5:42PM Dieter said... Hmmm, as a diabetic, and concerned about blood glucose levels, I wonder if this isn't too far off? Here's an interesting link:

http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.springerlink.com/index/XTTDHEY34TL58MML.pdf
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kaitlin  Hess

10-21-2006 @11:28PM kaitlin Hess said... THis is ridiculous! Bread doesnt cause cancer, people have been eating bread for thousands of years.......this is more anti-bread propaganda, stop the bread-phobia. Bread is life!!
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peabody

10-21-2006 @2:43AM peabody said... This is why I am on an all bacon diet :)
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giramondo

10-25-2006 @6:32AM giramondo said... And people died younger for thousands of years, too, not knowing what killed them.
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Christine

10-25-2006 @6:42AM Christine said... Let's see, bread, meats, eggs, coffee, soda.....why don't we all just stop eating all together, then we will die faster....come on people.....bread causing renal cancer? I don't believe it.....what do I do now when I make peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for my kids.....put it on their hands and tell them to lick it off.......
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Richard Thompson

10-25-2006 @6:48AM Richard Thompson said... Staggering Statistics!!

Bread causes death and disease, nearly all sick people have eaten bread.

99.9% of all people who die from cancer have eaten bread.

Evidence points to the long-term effects of bread eating: Of all the people born since 1839 who later dined on bread, there has been a 100% mortality rate.

Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

So there you have it! Bread is bad for you!

Oh, one more... Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a very low incidence of cancer, Altzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis and lawyers.

Rich T



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PEPPA

10-25-2006 @6:54AM PEPPA said... ANYONE WANT A BAGEL ??? YUMmmm


AND WHAT ABOUT HOMEMADE BREAD ?
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r cottrell

10-25-2006 @7:15AM r cottrell said... It is more than just the flour and the sugar it is the bad oils like hydrogenated oil that is glogging up the liver and gallbladder then that is what is creating cancer from all of the congested stones in the body.

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Jeff H

10-25-2006 @7:15AM Jeff H said... This is crazy.....Bread will kill us,red meat is no good for us, some fish have mercury,fruits and veggies have pesticides,don't drink to much caffine,nothing fried,not too much liquer,special water,watch the
fats,watch the dairy products,... just develope a 1 a day pill and save us all the trouble of eating and wasting all that time and money
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jeanne

10-25-2006 @7:22AM jeanne said... To the person who said this is ridiculous because people have always ate bread.....not the kind of bread we have now. Refined processed bread, strips out nutrition, just look at the children nowadays all overweight with poor diets. I know magnesium has been taken out of bread totally and people don't realize you need it to balance calcium and all you hear about is taking calcium for osteoporosis which I have. So why can't you believe cancer?
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JMyth

10-25-2006 @7:23AM JMyth said... "In contrast, those who ate a high proportion of poultry, meat and vegetables had a lower risk of getting the kidney cancer."

Just proves the age old saying again my friends "All things in moderation."
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diane

10-25-2006 @7:32AM diane said... we are being killed by preservatives and the amount of food we eat.
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joe

10-25-2006 @7:36AM joe said... This studies drive me nuts. Bread causes cancer or increases the odds? Not likely. The cocnlusions drawn in these studies tend to hint where funding came from.
Does bread cause cancer? Of course not. Does eating alot of bread suggest something about a persons overal diet? Much more likely. Does eating white bread in particular suggest some link to economic factors and subsequently health care? Also possible, certainly more possible than bread casuing kidney cancer. "man shall no live on bread alone", tue indeed; and I doubt he would die from bread alone either. A scientist should be ashamed to publish such a careless conclusion - or should I say opinion?
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andrea

10-25-2006 @7:33AM andrea said... first eggs are bad for us and now bread...soon they will tell us that we should not drink water...come on eat what ya want...you only live once
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debra

10-25-2006 @7:37AM debra said... ok so what causes breast cancer?I had it.Im just going to eat because they say everything is causing cancers............pftttttttttt,im living.
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B is for Bread

10-25-2006 @10:23AM B is for Bread said... LOL............to Rich T., who posted about being Bread being a gateway drug, leading to harder items like jelly, butter and peanut butter..........LOL..regardless of the subject matter, that was a simply delightful post. Witty, as could be. I smiled reading it.
As for bread......I'm sure it does cause cancer. So does some of the materials used in toilet paper, toothpaste, and soap. I would hate like hell to give those up.
I am still concerned about the machines from years ago, that allowed all the kids to see their feet at the shoestore. What did they call them?? Oh yes.......Xray machines!!!! I stared at my little bones, glowing in the green, for as long as I could. Still today, we have feet. Phew!! Maybe if we made the bread from soylent green it would be healthier, but till then......well, I have to ponder this.
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Pina

10-25-2006 @7:39AM Pina said... It seems everything gives you cancer these days.
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randy

10-25-2006 @7:50AM randy said... Can I still eat pizza ?
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