A diet with high glycemic index foods (sweets, sugar, refined complex carbohydrates such as bread, white rice) would be linked to the risk of lung cancer according to a new study. The study, conducted by the MD Anderson Cancer Center, evaluated two large groups of people and asked them questions to determine if there is a correlation between high glycemic index foods and lung cancer risk: in fact, the risk of having a lung cancer is not only linked to smoking, active or even passive, but also to poor dietary choices, which according to Dr.  Xifeng Wu,  epidemiologist in charge of the study, would include the consumption of saturated fats, red meats and cheeses.

To these foods would be added those with a high glycemic index. According to experts, previous studies had linked blood sugar and insulin would promote the production of somatodines (anabolic hormones dependent on growth hormone) and the latter would be linked to the risk of various cancers, including lung cancers. At this point, it was necessary to understand if a diet with a high glycemic index, by increasing insulin, also increased the levels of somatodines and therefore the risks of neoplasms. To do this, the researchers collected two groups of individuals, both about two thousand: a group of healthy people, and a group of people with lung cancer.
Both groups would be asked questions about their eating habits. People who ate foods with a high glycemic index, regardless of the glycemic load of the meals, and therefore the quantity of the aforementioned foods, had a greater risk of contracting lung cancer (fifty percent more)

The authors of the study therefore stressed the importance of limiting high-sugar foods, refined foods, and very sugary drinks. The point is that with a study that relies only on interviews to establish people’s habits, interviews times, I remember, to determine only the glycemic index in the diet as the only research parameter , the chances of error are high. The reasons why people who eat foods (even in low quantities) with a high glycemic index have had greater risks of lung cancer may be other, including lifestyle and other bad habits. This is the study.