date:Dec 11, 2012
specific foods and cancer risk. They selected 50 common ingredients from random recipes in a cookbook, and used PubMed to identify recent studies that evaluated the relation of each ingredient to cancer risk.
Forty out of the 50 ingredients had articles reporting on their cancer risk. Of the 264 studies, 103 studies suggested the food ingredient was tied to an increased risk of cancer and 88 to a decreased risk. The average effect shown in each study was about a doubling of cancer risk or a hal