September 20, 2018.
A study, conducted by an Inserm researcher, shows that people who consume a lot of products whose nutritional value is not good have a higher risk of developing cancer.
Consuming too many products with the wrong Nutri-score increases the risk of developing cancer by 7%
The Nutri-score, this labeling that allows consumers to quickly identify the nutritional value of a product, could also be an indicator of the risk of developing cancer. This is in any case what we can conclude from a recent study, conducted by a scientist from Inserm..
In conclusions published in the journal PLOS Medicine, this researcher affirms that consuming regularly products that have a bad Nutri-score increase the risk of developing cancer by 7%.
Men and women are not at risk of developing the same cancers
To arrive at these figures, the author of this study, Mélanie Deschasaux, observed the cases of 471,495 people living throughout Europe. Between 1992 and 2004, she scrupulously analyzed the eating patterns of these participants, while matching them with their lifestyle (smoking, sedentary lifestyle, etc.). At the end of this study, she observed the cases of the 50,000 people who, in this panel, had developed cancer. However, the diet of these people was particularly rich in products whose Nutri-score was poor..
It also seems that men and women are not equal when it comes to this cancer risk. According to the observations of this study, men are more likely to develop cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract, colorectal or stomach. By eating poorly, women run the risk of developing liver or breast cancer.
Gaelle Latour
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