High Protein Low Carbohydrate Diets and Cancer

Another Negative in High-Protein Diets
"Because a high daily consumption of 'carbohydrate]-containing food is assessed to decrease the risk of cancer of 'the intestinal system,] different types of carbohydrates were investigated for their antimutagenic activity...", observe Dr.-scientists Hensel and Meier*.

Note that generally, high-protein diets discourage eating carbohydrate (starchy) foods. Since these foods reduce mutagenic 'pre-cancerous] activity, high protein diets may INCREASE the risk of cancer of the digestive tract.

In their investigations incidentally, they found that pectin, which is in apples, are the most protective of the substances tested.

*From the European journal Planta Med., vol. 65, l999. The doctors are at the Institut fur Botanik und Pharmazeutische Biologie Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen, Germany.