Chicken protects against bowel cancer

Regularly eat chicken children much less then faced with neoplastic diseases of the stomach. That is the conclusion reached by researchers at Harvard University in the United States.

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This is the first study in the history of science, to prove that the risk of cancer in adulthood may be determined by the type of meat that a person regularly uses in the teenage years. American scientists have observed the health of 20,000 women from the beginning of the 1990s. It was found that the chicken in the diet reduces the risk of intestinal tumors   20% and rectum 50%.

Chicken meat reduced the development of adenomas - malignant tumors, which usually precede the appearance of cancer. Tens of thousands of Russians every year are victims of intestinal tumors . This type of cancer is very high mortality rate due to the fact that many patients with persistently ignore the warning signs and seek help from doctors at the time when the disease enters its final stage.

Among the main risk factors Bowel Cancer   a diet rich red meat and fat, and low physical activity. Human diet determines the tendency to the appearance of tumors of the intestine because the disease develops very slowly - sometimes several decades.

Research has shown that eating chicken reduces the risk of bowel cancer, but women who are actively leaned on red meat, no ill more frequently than those who have tried this type of meat is not consumed. It was also found that the fish in the diet does not provide any protective effect against colon cancer. However, it should be emphasized that the observations were made only against women. (READ MORE)

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