Considering that vitamin C fortified foods are extremely common, especially in food that kids would favour, will they stop being fortified or will they come with some cancer warning?
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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This is cancer growth not cancer causing. So it's only relevant to people that have cancer.
Cancer is human cells. Generally whatever is good for humans is going to be good for growing cancer. The opposite is also true cancer killing chemotherapy and radiotherapy are very bad for your health.
This is cancer growth not cancer causing. So it’s only relevant to people that have cancer.
Fair point, but cancer is in the top 3 killers, so most people are probably going to be affected by overt vitamin C supplementation/fortification, would they not?
Could you imagine seeing "WARNING: May promote cancer growth and mastitis." on a can of frozen Minute Maid fruit punch?! 😱
Generally whatever is good for humans is going to be good for growing cancer.
Perhaps in vitro, but it doesn't tend to work that way with diet, or else you'd have cancer worsening when patients eat healthful diets, and getting better when they continue eating a Standard American Diet.