Let's say you really need to find reliable information about the best diet for high blood

pressure or heart disease or diabetes.

Where do you go?

You go to a website sponsored by Big Pharma that wants to sell you pills to fix your problem

or do you want to treat the cause.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast with the latest peer reviewed research on the best

ways to eat healthy and live longer.

Did you know that as many as 37% of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to

bovine leukemia virus?

Here's our first story.

The incidence of breast cancer is continuously increasing worldwide in the US, this amount

to a 40% increase in the incidence by the turn of the century.

Currently, the main approach is early detection and treatment.

It's important, but why not pay more attention to primary prevention?

In other words, protecting people from being exposed to risk factors for breast cancers

so they never develop breast cancer in the first place.

Overall, it's estimated that 20% of all human cancers have an infectious origin.

Viruses can trigger cancer by turning on cancer genes or turning off cancer, suppressing

genes, but they can also contribute to tumor formation just by causing chronic inflammation.

Currently, cancer-causing viruses are considered the major plausible hypothesis for a direct

cause of human breast cancer.

How did we get here?

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