High saturated fat consumption associated with a 36% reduced risk of pancreatic cancer

This study was published in the Annals of Epidemiology 2013 Sep;23(9):571-5

 

Study title and authors:

Dietary fat intake and risk of pancreatic cancer in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.

Arem H, Mayne ST, Sampson J, Risch H, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ.

Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA. aremhe2@mail.nih.gov

 

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23890797

This study investigated the association of dietary fat and the risk of pancreatic cancer. The study included 111,416 participants, aged 55 to 74 years, who were followed for 8.4 years.

The study found:
(a) Those who consumed the most dietary fat had a 30% reduced risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who consumed the least dietary fat.
(b) Those who consumed the most saturated fat had a 36% reduced risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who consumed the least saturated fat.

Red meat reduces colon cancer by 34%

This study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology 2004 Nov 15;160(10):1011-22

Study title and authors:

Dietary fat and fatty acids and risk of colorectal cancer in women.

Lin J, Zhang SM, Cook NR, Lee IM, Buring JE.

Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. jhlin@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15522858

Dr. Jennifer Lin, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, examined the association of intakes of different types of fat with the risk of colon cancer. She and her colleagues analyzed the diets of 37,547 women over 8.7 years.

Dr. Lin found:

• Women who consumed the most saturated fat had an 8% reduced incidence of colon cancer compared to the women who ate the least.
• Women who consumed the most cholesterol had a 21% reduced incidence of colon cancer compared to the women who ate the least.
• Women who consumed the most red meat had a 34% reduced incidence of colon cancer compared to the women who ate the least.
• Women who consumed the most vegetable fat had a 21% increased incidence of colon cancer compared to the women who ate the least.

This study shows that dietary cholesterol, animal fats and red meat give protection from colon cancer, whereas vegetable fats (margarine, sunflower oil etc.) increase the risk of colon cancer.

Pancreatic cancer risk is decreased on a diet high in red meat and saturated fat

This study was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1998 Nov 18;90(22):1710-9

Study title and authors:

Dietary and nutritional factors and pancreatic cancer: a case-control study based on direct interviews.

Silverman DT, Swanson CA, Gridley G, Wacholder S, Greenberg RS, Brown LM, Hayes RB, Swanson GM, Schoenberg JB, Pottern LM, Schwartz AG, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover RN.

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. silvermd@EPNDCE.NCI.NIH.GOV

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9827525

This study investigated the relationship between diet and pancreatic cancer in 436 patients and 2003 general-population control subjects aged 30-79 years.

The study found:

• Those who had the lowest consumption of bread, grains and cereals had an 8% decreased rate of pancreatic cancer compared to those who had the highest consumption of bread, grains and cereals.
• Those who had the lowest consumption of carbohydrates had a 36% decreased rate of pancreatic cancer compared to those who had the highest consumption of carbohydrates.
• Those who ate the most fat had a 34% decreased rate of pancreatic cancer compared to those who ate the least fat.
• Those who ate the most saturated fat had a 28% decreased rate of pancreatic cancer compared to those who ate the least saturated fat.
• Those who ate the most red meat had an 18% decreased rate of pancreatic cancer compared to those who ate the least red meat.

This study shows that diets high in saturated fat and red meat offer protection from pancreatic cancer.

Diets high in red meat and saturated fat decrease the incidence of pancreatic cancer

This study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology 2003 Jun 15;157(12):1115-25

Study title and authors:

Dietary meat, dairy products, fat, and cholesterol and pancreatic cancer risk in a prospective study.

Michaud DS, Giovannucci E, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Fuchs CS.

Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA. michaudd@mail.nih.gov

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12796048

This study, of 4 years, examined the relationship of diet and the risk of pancreatic cancer in 88,802 women.

The study found:

(a) Women who ate the most saturated fat had a 5% decreased risk of pancreatic cancer compared to women who ate the least saturated fat.

(b) Women who ate the most butter had an 11% decreased risk of pancreatic cancer compared to women who ate the least butter.

(c) Women who ate the most meat had a 6% decreased risk of pancreatic cancer compared to women who ate the least meat.

(d) Women who ate the most red meat had a 13% decreased risk of pancreatic cancer compared to women who ate the least red meat.

This results of the study show that red meat and saturated fat offer protection from pancreatic cancer.

Butter does NOT cause heart disease

This post features a chart showing butter consumption since 1926

The chart below plots butter consumption trends versus the incidence of cancer and heart disease. Since 1926, consumption of butter has dropped precipitously, at the same time cancer and heart disease has soared. Many factors may be involved as to what causes cancer and heart disease but for sure it’s not the consumption of butter because these trends are going in the opposite direction.

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