Javier Munárriz: “One of the few things that can be secured on the relationship between diet and cancer is that the Mediterranean diet prevents cancer”



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## Javier Munárriz: “One of the few things that can be secured on the relationship between diet and cancer is that the Mediterranean diet prevents cancer” The oncologist warns that many articles on foods that prevent or cause diseases are subordinated to economic interests‬‬

12/11/2014 |
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Javier Munárriz, doctor of Medical Oncology at the Provincial Hospital of Castellon, offered the conference “Food and Cancer: truths and myths” as part of the course on cancer prevention that organized the Spanish Association Against Cancer of Castellon and the Vice-Deanship for Medicine of the Universitat Jaume I. The specialist in oncology has been emphatic in stating that “one of the few things that can be categorically sure about the relationship between diet and cancer is that the Mediterranean diet, the diet of a lifetime which is a sensible, balanced and varied diet, prevents cancer.”

Munárriz explained that, unlike in other diseases like Ebola or silicosis, in the case of cancer there is no single factor that causes the disease but there are many factors involved such as smoking, alcohol, hereditary and genetic factors and diet. Among these factors there are some that are not modifiable, as hereditary, genetic or gender factors (only women can suffer uterine cancer), but there are others that are modifiable, like smoking, as it is shown that non-smoking decreases by 30% the incidence of cancer. “But of all modifiable factors the one with the highest impact on cancer is the diet because a high caloric and fat intake or the intake of carcinogens such as alcohol can cause cancer, in the same way obesity can increase mortality in some cancers.”

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