�The American Institute for Cancer Research finds itself and its landmark technical report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, caught in the middle of a savage PR battle between deuce conflicting interest groups.
The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an anti-meat advocacy organization, is victimisation the AICR report's conclusions to bolster its political campaign to produce all refined meats out of U.S. schools. AICR is non affiliated with PCRM or this run.
The American Meat Institute (AMI) has responded with a program line that attacks the AICR report by recycling the misleading arguments AMI commencement made when the AICR report was published in November of last year.
Here's the science slow all that spin: The AICR skillful report was an international five-year project that involved the work of club independent teams of researchers, hundreds of peer reviewers, and a panel of 21 world-renowned experts. In preparing this comprehensive, objective and transparent report, evidence from over 7,000 studies on all aspects of cancer risk was reviewed; the report contains the experts' assessment of the results of this research in a lean of ten-spot clear recommendations to turn down cancer risk of infection. These recommendations deal with body weighting, physical action and the overall pattern of the diet.
The expert panel did not issue a recommendation unless the epidemiological data was clear, consistent and supported by strong laboratory grounds.
Among the panel's recommendations: limit ingestion of bolshevik meat to 18 ounces (cooked) per week. But according to the report card: "The evidence on processed meat is even more clear-cut than that on red kernel, and the data do not record any level of intake that lav confidently be shown non to be associated with risk."
This does non suggest, however, that an occasional hot dog at a lucille Ball game, or a slice of ham at Easter, will cause colon cancer. What the evidence does show is that making processed meats an casual part of the diet, as many Americans do, poses clear and serious risks. That is wherefore AICR at present recommends avoiding hot dogs, sausages, bacon, ham, cold cuts and other processed meats.
The AMI statement contests this recommendation, citing alternate conclusions that were reached by a revue of the evidence that was commissioned by AMI. Such an ad hoc literature limited review, paid for by an interested party and conducted by two scientists only, lacks the scope, objectivity and cogency of which the AICR expert report is a model.
We at AICR wish the multi-billion-dollar inwardness industry would take the money it uses to attack the objective conclusions of main experts and devote it to researching why diets high in processed meats are so consistently associated with troubling increases in colorectal crab risk. With such efforts, it english hawthorn prove possible to isolate the especial cause or causes and make refined meats safer.
In the meantime, no amount of meat industry spin can buoy change the fact that the exhaustive AICR report has been embraced by the outside scientific and medical community and represents overwhelming scientific consensus.
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical natural action and weight management to cancer risk of exposure, interprets the scientific literature and educates the public about the results. It has contributed more than $86 gazillion for innovational research conducted at universities, hospitals and research centers across the country. AICR has published two landmark reports that interpret the accumulated research in the field, and is committed to a process of continuous review. AICR as well provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower crab risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its web site, http://www.aicr.org. AICR is a fellow member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.
American Institute for Cancer Research
More info
