Eating Nuts May Prevent Colon Cancer Recurrance Newburgh Gazette

Eating Nuts May Prevent Colon Cancer Recurrance Newburgh Gazette

Eating Nuts May Prevent Colon Cancer Recurrance Newburgh Gazette

Patients with bowel cancer could increase their likelihood of survival by eating nuts, claims new research. The Yale Cancer Center published the findings this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. To do so, they followed 826 patients with colon cancer for about six years after they were treated with surgery and chemotherapy. Senior author Professor Charles Fuchs, director of Yale Cancer Centre in the USA, said: "Further analysis revealed that disease-free survival increased by 46 per cent among the sub-group of nut consumers who ate tree nuts rather than peanuts".

The correlation was maintained across other known or suspected risk factors for cancer recurrence and mortality. Several authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Healthy Lead author Dr Temidayo Fadelu, a postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the United States, said: "These findings are in keeping with several other observational studies that indicate that a slew of healthy behaviours, including increased physical activity, keeping a healthy weight, and lower intake of sugar and sweetened beverages - improve colon cancer outcomes".

Researchers concluded that the same behaviors that help reduce the risk of insulin resistance, like consuming nuts, can improve survival rates in colon cancer patients. "Diets with a higher consumption of nuts may be associated with a significantly reduced incidence of cancer recurrence and death in patients with stage III colon cancer". It is believed that nuts help to beat cancer by making patients less insulin resistant - which leads to less sugar in the blood. For example, a one-ounce serving of about 24 almonds holds about 200 calories, including 14 grams of fat. Peanuts, on the other hand, belong to legumes, not nuts. On the contrary, "our studies, and across the scientific literature in general, have found regular consumers of nuts tend to be leaner", explained Charles S. Fuchs, Director at Yale Cancer Centre in the US. In the meantime, they're encouraging patients to evaluate their diets. Dr Fadelu suggested eating nuts should be considered as important a change as exercising more and cutting out sugar. "Then we talk about things like coffee and nuts". Do you enjoy snacking on nuts? The National Cancer Institute - the US Government's agency responsible for cancer research - also gave it a cash boost.
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