title: Diet and cancer and heart disease.
abstract: The modern Western diet bears little resemblance to the diet which forged the human genome over many million years. The change in basic food structure is operating to distort biology even before conception and into late years, with the epidemic of obesity and diabetes likely to lead to stroke, heart disease, and now dementia, being flagged as a consequence. In addition, mental ill health is overtaking all other burdens of ill health, and almost certainly has its roots in early disturbance of brain development. Whilst lifestyle will be playing its part, there can be little doubt that the common denominator is the aberrations in food development, predominantly in the last century. It seems it is time to reassess food policy. The principle of food production should be nutrition and human health. The globalisation of a food structure linked to such disorders and their appearance globally in response asks that steps be taken to protect other countries from making the same mistakes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cancer and Surgery, Imperial College, London, UK michael.crawford@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Crawford
keywords: Cancer; aetiology; heart disease; nutrition; omega 3; prostate cancer