“You are what you eat.” This is truly a claim that warns people about the importance of eating healthy to stay healthy.
Recent studies have shown that a diet high in fats hastens the growth of stem cells in the intestinal tract that increases the risk of developing tumours, especially one that causes colon cancer. This was discovered during a recent assessment of laboratory mice in the testing.
The research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spearheaded the tests and claimed that the findings have shed some light as to the reasons why high fat diets and obesity triggers the activation of a molecule called the PPAR-delta that functions primarily to regulate fatty- acid metabolism and uses it to generate energy.
This molecule is responsible for letting the stem cells replicate the tumours that are likely to develop in the intestinal wall of mice that were subjected to a high-fat diet.
Although mice and humans are not generally the same, but they claimed that the findings could help provide answers regarding the role of PPAR-delta in the possible development of tumours in the human intestines and could unlock some of the mysteries that could help in developing a therapeutic strategy for treatment or even prevention of colon cancer.
There is also a correlation with another separate study that gives credence to these findings on the prevalence of colon cancer among many Americans due to what many call the Western Diet – a regular meal composed mostly of fats and meats, but low in fibre, which is also similar to common fast food fare.
Colon and rectal cancer ranks third as the most common cancer plaguing men and women in the United States and the risks of people getting them is 1 is to every 21 in men and 1 for every 23 in women.
In 2012, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC reported that 134,784 Americans – 70,204 men and 64,580 women – were diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
There were 51,516 deaths were recorded due to colorectal cancer, 26866 were man and 24,650 were women.
Avoiding colon cancer is to have a good amount of will power and discipline and since we are now aware that high-fat diets connection with cancer are highly likely, prudence and diligence are keys to know which of the food we are consuming are good and healthy for the body.
Image Credit: Scientists Discover How High-Fat Diets Can Cause Cancer – IFL Science
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