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Diet, bowel motility, faeces composition and colonic cancer
Abstract
The commonness of colonic cancer in privileged populations compared with its rarity in those pursuing a primitive manner of life suggests that environmental factors are primarily responsible. In this study, differences in diet and their ramificarions are discussed in relation to populations prone and less prone to the disease. Some possible hypotheses of causation are considered. It is concluded that in the present contexts of western populations, in so far as diet directly or indirectly is involved, there is little or no likelihood of lowering the present high preva!ence of cancer of the colon.
