Cancer risk Children born today have a one in two chance of developing cancer in their lifetime. And poor diet, together with smoking, is the main driver in 50 per cent of cancers. For starters, research documents that cancer may begin with DNA mutations produced by free radicals. Second, inflammation promotes cancer’s proliferation. Finally, when there is more insulin present, cancer spreads even faster. Glucose is the key to many of these processes, and it shows in the data – people with fasting levels higher than 5.5 mmol/L, what is classified as prediabetes, have over double the likelihood
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