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Cancer. Many kinds of cancer are associated with diets high in fats. When this information is analyzed and compared to the increase in the incidence of deaths from cancer over the last 80 years (from 1 in 30 in 1900 to 1 in 4 people in 1990), cancer increase parallels the increase in our consumption of fats of vegetable origin. Even closer correlation is found between cancer increase and increased consumption of hydrogenated, trans-fatty acid-containing vegetable oils. While statistical analysis is not proof that trans-fatty acids cause cancer, it should alert us to that possibility. The fact that trans-fatty acids interfere with vital functions of essential and other highly unsaturated fatty acids makes their involvement in cancer likely.

Research evidence shows that EFAs (especially w3s) inhibit cancer. The fact that at least some cancers appear to involve a functional deficiency in EFAs (See Chapter 70, Degenerative Diseases) lends further support to this theory.

Confirmations

A Silver Spring, Maryland researcher (Mary Enig, 1993) has researched, followed, and summarized others' research on the effects of trans-fatty acids for many years. Research from Harvard (Willet,1994) and other institutions shows that besides interfering with EFA functions, raising total cholesterol and lowering the 'good' HDL, inhibiting conversion of EFAs to their derivatives, and worsening essential fatty acid deficiency, trans-fatty acids also: ....."

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