Smoking makes fruits and vegetables dangerous

The abundance of fruits and vegetables in the human diet allows the body to its powerful anticancer protection. However, this is true only for those who do not smoke, because smoking consumption of fruits and vegetables can produce the opposite effect. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the Netherlands.

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The eight-year study of experts from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), which was attended by half a million people showed that fruits and vegetables affect the condition of the intestine, depending on whether a person smokes or not. Despite the obvious utility of fruits and vegetables for health, smokers are going to benefit not always, experts said.

In particular, it was found that the presence or absence of such habits as smoking can affect the trend of the propensity to cancer of the colon. While non-smokers intake of fruits and vegetables in large quantities reduces the risk of developing this type of cancer in smokers, he, on the contrary, increased.

"If you do not smoke and consume 600 grams or more fruits and vegetables daily, it significantly reduces the probability of ill. However, smokers consuming the same amount of plant food, the risk of developing the disease increases, "- says the doctors.

  In their view, substances found in fruits and vegetables may increase the carcinogenic potential of tobacco. In earlier studies on the subject, scientists did not pay attention to this factor.

At the same time mistake to conclude that smokers better to abandon potentially harmful for their gifts of nature. Sami researchers believe that their work for the first time confirmed the link between the consumption of plant foods and tobacco, should be a warning to those who smoke. "We need to throw a cigarette rather than fruits and vegetables. Refusing to plant foods, we are depriving your body of many useful trace elements ", - experts say. (READ MORE)

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