04/23/2025
IMPORTANT TO KNOW: Choosing the wrong food causes cancer!
Just because it's in the shelf doesn't mean it's safe to eat. In fact if it's on a shelf instead of a refrigerator, chances are it probably isn't!
Second in our series of "Cancer in your Kitchen" with nutritionist Julie Delabarre, we focus on the dangers of ultraprocessed food and solutions to this countrywide habit of eating food that causes cancer.
This is based on a well done study from the UK called the UK Biobank study, which was published in the Lancet journal, of over 197,000 people.
Two main findings: for every 10% of your meals eaten ultraprocessed, (think 2 of 20) your risk of cancer goes up 2%. Americans eat an average of 50% meals ultraprocessed (10 of 20), so that's a 10% higher risk of cancer, just from this exposure alone.
For premenapausal women the risk is much greater: 19% risk for every 10% ultraprocessed eaten. So for a woman who eats 10 of 20 meals ultraprocessed, the risk goes up 95% (!!) compared with a woman who eats in the lowest quartile (under 2 meals a week).
People are wondering why Americans are getting cancers more than before? Don't look any further than the three meals a day you eat. You'll see some of the reason right there.
We go over solutions to this epidemic, with a free list for you if you want it!
Take a watch of this, it's only 10 minutes.
Second in a series of discussions between Dr. Vongtama, double board certified in Radiation Oncology and Lifestyle Medicine, and Julie Delabarre, cancer nutr...
