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A new study says what our grandmothers ate affects us now.  In fact, the headline of the article reads, "Will your grandmother's diet affect your chances of colon cancer?" I sure hope not. Mine died of colon cancer . Apparently the study is underway to see if green tea can help prevent cancer in today's Westernized diets. Researchers  developed a diet that mimics typical U.S. nutrition for studies of human cancer using animal models, according to newswise.com.  "In this case, rodents with cancer will be studied, which will allow (researchers) to look at the effects of the diet on multiple generations in a short period of time." One study author  predicts that green tea will have a greater benefit to those mice that are exposed to the Western diet than those on a healthy diet. She also believes that the more generations exposed to the Western diet, the greater the risk of colon cancer in the offspring. We've been told for years that eating too muc...

OK.  What's the biggest cause of cancer?  If you guessed smoking, you'd be right.  But if you guessed meat , you'd be right, too. A multicountry study just published finds that smoking, diets rich in animal products, and alcohol have the strongest correlations with cancer incidence rates, according to newswise.com.   This study is an ecological study in which incidence rates for the various types of cancer for males and females from 87 countries with high quality cancer incidence rate data as well as all 157 countries with cancer incidence rate data were compared statistically with indices for various risk modifying factors.' The animal products index included meat, milk, fish, and eggs.  "For the 87 countries with high quality cancer data, the smoking and animal products indices explained over half of the cancer incidence rates, with alcoholic beverage supply explaining a smaller amount," newswise.com reports.  Surprisingly, in men, the smoking ind...