American Cancer Society: Hypocrites in Action (colon cancer fat)
Does beef cause cancer?
What about the accusation that beef causes cancer, in particular cancer
of the colon? The genesis of this myth involves more than just muddied
thinking, but actual skulduggery. In 1965 an influential physician,
Ernst Wynder, took the data for the mostly processed vegetable oils,
called them animal fat (which they were not) and compared them with
worldwide colon cancer mortality.6 The table he produced showed high
rates of colon cancer in European countries and low rates of colon
cancer in Japan, and concluded that there was a positive effect, in
other words, that saturated fat, the kind found in beef, caused colon
cancer. What the data actually showed was that consumption of
polyunsaturated vegetable oils, not saturated animal fats, was
associated with the incidence of colon cancer.
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