How High-Fat Diets Fuel the Spread of Cancer

Excess body fat also creates free radicals inside your body and increases the risk for cancer-causing mutations.

For decades, the American Heart Association (AHA) pushed the low-fat message. But today, the AHA is saying something quite different. In their massive 2015 report Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics, they buried a bombshell in the text.8 It says that five huge randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that total fat consumption does not affect

High levels of insulin brought about by high levels of blood sugar will encourage your body to store fat and increase your cancer risk.

I suspect that the association between obesity, diabetes, and cancer is primarily driven by inflammation and growth factors such as insulin. Obesity, especially when accompanied by accumulation of visceral fat (and other fat outside of subcutaneous storage depots), helps promote inflammation, as dying fat cells secrete an array of inflammatory cyto

The conclusion of a recent large, well-conducted study says it all: “Saturated fats are not associated with all-cause mortality, [cardiovascular disease], [coronary heart disease], ischemic stroke, or type 2 diabetes.”2