The report (free downloadable PDF format)
Recommendations to prevent cancer
Amazing quotes from the BBC article on the report of The World Cancer Research Fund:
The World Cancer Research Fund carried out the largest ever inquiry into lifestyle and cancer, and issued several stark recommendations.
They include not gaining weight as an adult, avoiding sugary drinks and alcohol, and not eating bacon or ham.
In particular, researchers say people should stop eating processed meats, such as ham, bacon and salami, and limit the consumption of red meat to 500g a week
From a cancer perspective, all alcohol should be avoided, although researchers accepted drinking small amounts could have protective benefits for other diseases.
It is always amazing how people are at pains to justify the 'goodness' of alcohol. Yet the problem is the ills are much greater. One can always get this 'goodness' from other less risky ways, I am sure. The Quran says there is good in it, but that its evil outweighs its good.
Quote from the Report itself, section 12.1:
For example, the evidence on alcoholic
drinks and breast cancer, as shown in chapters
4.8 and 7.10, does not show any ‘safe
threshold’. The risk evidently increases,
albeit modestly, at any level of intake of
any alcoholic drink. And there is no nutritional
need to consume alcohol. So in this
case, the appropriate recommendation
based solely on the evidence for breast cancer
would be not to consume alcoholic
drinks; the quantified recommendation
would be zero.
The way of life to be adopted is quite simply an Islamic one.
It will be clear to all that Islam is the correct way, even if they will not admit to it.
Example of the reaction to report, when the way of life is criticised people are not so ready to accept. But people are quick to criticise others' way of life backed by similar reports.
Another report belittling risk of alcohol to pregnant women Binge drink baby damage 'unclear'
Dangers of eating bacon, bad for lungs
2 comments:
I've been planning to write about the islamic way of life and the sunnah and how the evidence from science supports it. I've collected a number of articles regarding this but unfortunately I haven't had the time.
JazakAllah khair for writing something. Just want to point out that the last link doesn't work "Example of the reaction to the report"
please try again, it worked for me.
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