Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
Epidemiological and experimental studies support the hypothesis that heme iron in meat the chance of getting colon cancer (colorectal cancer) increases. This review article was conducted to confirm this hypothesis, or disprove.
Increases eating lots of heme-iron the chance of getting colon cancer?
Study Design:
This overview article contained 7 prospective cohort studies with 566607 participants, of which 4734 people with colon cancer.
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found that eating a lot of heme-iron the chance of getting colon cancer significantly with 18% [95% CI = 1.06-1.32] increased. Significant is, there is a link at a 95% reliability.
The researchers concluded that eating a lot of heme-iron the chance of getting colon cancer increased.
Original title:
Heme Iron from Meat and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-analysis and a Review of the Mechanisms Involved by Bastide NM, the FHF and Pierre Corpet.
Link:
http://cancerpreventionresearch.aacrjournals.org/content/4/2/177.full.pdf+html
Additional information about El Mondo:
Heme iron is mainly in animal products, particularly in red meat. A high intake of heme-iron means, in practice, more than 500 grams of red meat or processed meat per week.
Read more about heme-iron.
Calcium, chlorophyll (chloroplasts), vitamin C and polyphenols can the harmful (= kankerstimulerende) effects of heme iron in the colon reducing.