Poor Carb Diets & Cancer Risk

An article by EJ Mundell reported that even those people who’ve never smoked could get lung cancer. A new study suggests their risk for the disease may rise if they eat a diet rich in certain carbohydrates. These are high glycemic index diets that trigger higher levels of insulin in the blood and tend to be heavy in refined poor quality carbs, according to one expert.

Dr. Rishi Jain, a medical oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, says that the glycemic load and index are methods to estimate the quality and quantity of dietary carbohydrates. A …read more