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Diet. Nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward.
The BMJ Opinion provides comment and opinion written by The British Medical Journal's international community of readers, authors, and editors.
2023
Abstract
An in depth exploration of the current evidence linking diet and nutrition to the risk of several different types of cancer along the digestive tract and other common cancers such as breast, lung and prostate cancer. Besides providing an invaluable overview of the available nutrition research for each cancer type, it includes a useful summary of the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) conclusions regarding nutritional factors that may be contributing to the cancer burden worldwide, namely obesity and alcohol. The fact that evidence for other nutritional factors is currently inconclusive is thought to be largely due to the difficulty of performing research into the effects of nutrition on health.
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Obesity: tackling the causes of the causes
The BMJ Opinion provides comment and opinion written by The British Medical Journal's international community of readers, authors, and editors.
2021
Abstract
This article analyses the responsibility of society systems’ structures towards the obesity epidemic - and how strongly a shift in the government responses is required to tackle this issue. Our “obesogenic” environments hinder the population from accessing healthy lifestyle and dietary patterns, while portraying obesity as an individual’s lack of personal willpower. By challenging the current views on obesity, this article proposes that new policies must be created to eliminate inequalities and to provide long-term solutions to the root causes of obesity, deeply entrenched across all aspects of society.