What are cancer causing foods? They are acidic foods that can cause you to get sick. Have you looked at the kinds of food your family just ate? Knowing which foods are unhealthy is your best bet on disease prevention.
Also, remember that foods that may cause cancer can also cause other life-threatening diseases like diabetes and heart ailments.
List of Foods that Cause Cancer
Red or processed meat
Red meat is either beef, lamb or pork. When it becomes processed meat - ham, bacon, sausage and salami - it is definitely an unhealthy food.
Red meat contains high level of saturated fats. They cause cancer because they increase your risk for the colorectum, stomach, liver and esophagus types.
High consumption of red meat alone is already a major cause of tumors in your colon. If it's a major part of your meals, then your risk is increased by 25%. (See Causes of Colon Cancer)
Saturated fat
Saturated fats are naturally found in many foods. Examples of cancer causing foods high on saturated fats are:
poultry skin, and
dairy products like cheese, butter and other dairy products made from whole milk.
Cooking oils such as palm oil, vegetable oil, palm kernel oil and coconut oil also contain saturated fats.
Saturated fats are contributing factor to obesity which plays a major role in the development of breast cancer.
High-fat diets may also lead to pancreatic cancer.
Dairy and egg products that are not organic
Dairy products which come from livestock fed with corn, soy and wheat and eggs from hens also fed with corn and soy beans contain high levels of Omega 6 fats and zero Omega 3s.
Omega 6 fats can trigger inflammation and so, eating too much of these foods causes cancer.
Sugary drinks and foods
Beware when you consume too much sugar because your body produces too much insulin. Cancer thrives and grows faster with high level of insulin.
Otto Heinrich Warburg, a German biologist, discovered that the "metabolism of malignant tumors largely depends on sugar consumption".
Sugar is definitely not a part of a healthy eating plan. It triggers inflammation and cancer cells need inflammation to keep up their growth.
Too much sugar also weakens and disables the disease prevention ability of your immune system.
Energy-dense foods
Energy-dense foods that cause cancer are high in fats, added sugar and low in fiber. Examples are fast foods like burgers, fried chicken or pizzas and snack foods such as chips and biscuits.
They are also acidic foods that heighten inflammation in the area where there are already cancer cells. If you consume these cancer causing foods frequently and in large portions, you have a greater risk for both obesity and cancer.
Not all foods are equal.
There are healthy foods or alkaline foods which do your body good and there are unhealthy foods that do your body harm.
It is a matter of choice. Often, you choose unhealthy or acidic foods because of unhealthy eating habits you may not be aware of.
Also, when you are under so much stress, you tend to eat more of these cancer causing foods. (If you like to know how stress leads to cancer, see Cancer and Stress.)
Bear in mind that prevention of almost a third of cancer cases in the world is possible because they are results of lifestyle factors such as lack of physical activity and frequent consumption of unhealthy foods.
