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Doctor issues cancer warning to everyone who has common cooking ingredient in their kitchen

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Published 17:46 12 Dec 2024 GMT

Doctor issues cancer warning to everyone who has common cooking ingredient in their kitchen

The findings have been published and it's not good reading

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

Scientists have flagged a serious link between cancer and a common cooking item that almost every kitchen has.

It's no secret that you are putting yourself at risk of becoming unhealthy if you eat a bad diet. Too much of anything, from salt to fat and sugar, is enough to cause damage to your physical wellbeing in some way or another.

But the damage may be being done in a way that was unknown until now. And it is all to do with new research that has been funded by the taxpayer, with the findings enough to make many people rethink what they eat and how often they eat it.

New research finds cancer link

The research was published in scientific journal Gut on Tuesday this week (10 December), and points to evidence of a link between a specific form of cancer and a common cooking additive.

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The findings found that there was a causal link between cooking oils - that many of us will use when cooking vegetables or meat on the stove - and colon cancer.

In the United States, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

The particular oils that are putting you at risk are seed oils, according to the research conducted by personnel from the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute.

This is oils such as sunflower, corn, canola, and grapeseed.

On top of this, the link was more widely found between something known as inflammation-causing fatty molecules, that you will find loads in takeaways and ultra-processed foods, such as pre-packaged supermarket ready meals.

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It's no surprise that this kind of food is bad for us (Getty Stock Images)
It's no surprise that this kind of food is bad for us (Getty Stock Images)

What do the experts say?

Timothy Yeatman, co-author of the paper and professor of surgery at the University of South Florida, issued a warning in the research to those who consume these foods on a regular basis.

"We now see this inflammation in the colon tumours themselves, and cancer is like a chronic wound that won’t heal," Yeatman said.

"If your body is living off . . . ultra-processed foods, its ability to heal that wound decreases due to the inflammation and suppression of the immune system that ultimately allows the cancer to grow."

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Ganesh Halade and Timothy Yeatman (USF)
Ganesh Halade and Timothy Yeatman (USF)

For Yeatman, the research serves as evidence enough to re-evaluate the Western diet and our attitudes to food, both in the home and when eating out.

“Our bodies are designed to actively resolve inflammation through bioactive lipid compounds derived from the healthy fats, like avocados, that we consume,” said Ganesh Halade, associate professor in the USF Health Heart Institute and a member of the Cancer Biology Program at TGH Cancer Institute.

“Bioactive lipids are very small molecules derived from the foods that we eat and, if the molecules are coming from processed food products, they directly imbalance the immune system and drive chronic inflammation.”

Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images

Topics: Cancer, Education, Food And Drink, Health, Science, News

Tom Earnshaw
Tom Earnshaw

Tom joined LADbible Group in 2024, currently working as SEO Lead across all brands including LADbible, UNILAD, SPORTbible, Tyla, UNILAD Tech, and GAMINGbible. He moved to the company from Reach plc where he enjoyed spells as a content editor and senior reporter for one of the country's most-read local news brands, LancsLive. When he's not in work, Tom spends his adult life as a suffering Manchester United supporter after a childhood filled with trebles and Premier League titles. You can't have it all forever, I suppose.

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