Eating like a caveman ‘cuts bowel cancer risk’

London - It’s a fashionable way to shed the pounds.

But following the Paleo or caveman diet may have another even more important benefit.
Researchers say it could slash the risk of bowel cancer by half.
Followers of the diet shun processed foods – such as takeaways, packaged goods, bread and pasta. Instead they only eat foods which would have been available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and lean meat.

http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/eating-like-a-caveman-cuts-bowel-cancer-risk-1.1777128#.VF6omPmsXqt

 
Eliminate the processed foods and although Lowcarb is not strictly a Paleo diet this amounts to another possible benefit

graham64 wrote:

London - It’s a fashionable way to shed the pounds.

But following the Paleo or caveman diet may have another even more important benefit.
Researchers say it could slash the risk of bowel cancer by half.
Followers of the diet shun processed foods – such as takeaways, packaged goods, bread and pasta. Instead they only eat foods which would have been available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and lean meat.

http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/eating-like-a-caveman-cuts-bowel-cancer-risk-1.1777128#.VF6omPmsXqt

 
Eliminate the processed foods and although Lowcarb is not strictly a Paleo diet this amounts to another possible benefit

Great article,Thanks Graham! Good to know of another benefit of ditching the processed junk as bowel cancer is a horrible disease that appears to be on the increase and is not just a disease of the over 60's as once believed.
I don't eat strict Paleo myself as I can't give up my dairy but the guys that do follow it get some pretty great results,Borofergie springs to mind for one.

My mum had bowel cancer, stage one luckily caught and removed in time. She was never a fast food eater was a sensible eater although had a soft spot for american hard gums and the rowntree ones.

graham64 wrote:

London - It’s a fashionable way to shed the pounds.

But following the Paleo or caveman diet may have another even more important benefit.
Researchers say it could slash the risk of bowel cancer by half.
Followers of the diet shun processed foods – such as takeaways, packaged goods, bread and pasta. Instead they only eat foods which would have been available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and lean meat.

http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/eating-like-a-caveman-cuts-bowel-cancer-risk-1.1777128#.VF6omPmsXqt

 
Eliminate the processed foods and although Lowcarb is not strictly a Paleo diet this amounts to another possible benefit

Thanks for the link Graham.

Anything we the individual can do to improve health has to make sense

Jan

Mud Island Dweller wrote:My mum had bowel cancer, stage one luckily caught and removed in time. She was never a fast food eater was a sensible eater although had a soft spot for american hard gums and the rowntree ones.

Hi MID Glad to hear they were able to help your mum.

We can only do our best to eat as healthily as possible.  

All the best Jan

Trouble is MID, there's an awful lot of people out there who think they eat healthily, until they find out they're not. Weren't we all in that place at some point?

I shunned white bread in favour of wholemeal, not twigging that it is just as hybridised and there is just as much gluten and 'foreign' proteins in it as the white stuff. Wheat - in any form - was reducing my bowel to a toxic mush.

I faithfully resisted artificial sweeteners in favour of sugar, not realising that it was just as bad in its own way, devoid if nutrition and a nutrient 'mugger'.

I also faithfully used lashings of 'heart-healthy' polyunsaturated vegetable oils, all the while muttering under my breath as I struggled to scrape it off my chip fryer - never twigging that it was probably also 'varnishing' our cells and arteries.....

I had my 'five-a-week' portions of fruit and veg - some peas and carrots, maybe a bit of broccoli, bananas and generous helpings of pasteurised carton fruit juice. The 'fresh' carton fruit juices had to be more healthy than chemical squashes, didn't they.......?

We was fooled.

During this healing journey, probably about a year ago, I passed several chunks of matter that wasn't normal stool. It was crumbly, had white patches and flecks in it, and smelled of liver. I hadn't eaten any. To this day, I am almost convinced it was some kind of tumour. Bit eeeeew, but I wish I'd taken a photo....

As the Byetta had given me acute Pancreatitis, and has been implicated in Pancreatic Cancer, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was somehow linked. My digestion was awful back then, but has slowly been improving.

Diet can be life-changing - for the worse, or for the better. But what is constituted a healthy diet these days, is far removed from what REALLY is a healthy diet.