Info about Cancer
Fast food and cancer
We’ve heard it many times at television: fast food is not healthy for us, it only make us gain weight. But the latest news tells that the specialists now think that fast food could even help developing cancer. Because for example it is believed that 30 % of causes that women develop breast cancer is by nutrition. So the parents are advised to be much more careful on what they are giving their kids to eat, because fast food it’s not the most natural food they can provide. The most important problem with fast food is that they have a too high level of fat.
We all know that fast food can be “toxic” for our health, because we really don’t know what ingredients they added in it. We just look at the convenience that we don’t lose to much time by cooking ourselves. The fast food chains like McDonald's or Burger King know that in their food there are some carcinogens ingredients, but they don’t do anything about it, because they don’t care about the people. And because they want that people still buy for them, they don’t want to warn the consumer about it, so he knows the danger he is facing. All the major fast food chains have intended a suit by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. They had the decision of suiting the fast food chains after they tested some of their food, and found heterocyclic amines, a carcinogenic ingredient. It is widely known that this chemical is producing cancer, so we are really in danger if we don’t stop eating at the fast food.
So we really are in danger of developing different cancer forms like breast cancer or prostate cancer. So the problem isn’t so much about gaining weight, but also developing this lethal condition. We have to understand that the fast food items we see on the menu are full of fat (and even the dangerous trans fat) and also calories. But all that processed meat can be the home for the carcinogenic compounds. Even if its chicken, pork or beef milk, because of its processing it can have many dangerous effects on our body. For example most of the fast food items with grilled meat have been discovered that contains the heterocyclic amines I was talking earlier, and those can be the main cause people discover they have colorectal cancer or other forms of cancer.