動物性食品的病足跡

陳惟華/愛家自然診所院長、英國牛津大學神經學博士、醫界蔬食聯盟發起人之一

Table 1. Disease footprints of animal food.

I	Chronic disease footprints
	1.     Animal products
	(1)  Energy derived from animal products is strongly direct correlation with 12 types of cancers with a lag time of 15–25 years. (from 1.2 billion people with 21 cancers in 157 countries)			Nutrients 2014;6:163-189
	(2)  Animal fat consumption is correlated with 2 cancers
	(3)  Smoking is correlated with 12 types of cancers
	2.     Red meat increases：
	(1) Type II diabetes		↑32%	Am J Clin Nutr 2011;94: 1088–96
	(2) Cardiovascular disease mortality		↑21%	Arch Intern Med Published online 2013/9/2
	(3) Cancer mortality		↑16%	Arch Intern Med 2012/3/12
	(4) Early mortality		↑20%
	(5) Male stroke		↑20%	Am J Clin Nutr 2011;94:417–421
	3.     Fish consumption increases：
	(1) Type II diabetes		↑49%	Am J Clin Nutr 2011;93:143–150
	(2) Prostate cancer		↑39%	Am J Clin Nutr 2008;88: 1353–1363
	(3) Chronic methylmercury poisoning of mother & low birth weight of newborn			Am J Clin Nutr 2009;90:1047–51055
	(4) Chronic polychlorinated biphenyls poisoning			Epidemiology 2008; 168:958-965
	4.     Egg consumption increases：
	(1) Type II diabetes		↑58%(M) ↑77%(F)	Diabetes Care 2009;32: 295-300
	(2) Cardiovascular diseases		↑19%	Atherosclerosis 2013/4/3
	(3) Lethal type of prostate cancers		↑81%	Cancer Prev Res 2011; 4: 2110-2121
II	Zoonotic disease footprint－comes from livestock farms
	1.     SARS outbreak from China since 2003	Civet farms
	2.     H1N1 pandemic since 2009	Pig farms
	3.     H7N9 outbreaks from China since 2013	Duck & chicken farms
	4.     MERS outbreak from Saudi-Arabia since 2012	Camel farms
	5.     Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)	Cow farms		mBio. 2013; 4:e00356-13
	6.     Mad cow disease carrier-incidence in UK is double from 1/4,000 in 2004 to 1/2,000 in 2013	Cattle farms		BMJ 2013; 347:f5675