2023-10-26 20:45:07
Olive oil is one of the main foods in the Mediterranean diet. In addition, both the Mediterranean diet and olive oil are rich in components beneficial to health and there is increasing evidence that they could improve factors related to obesity. However, the relationship between the Mediterranean diet, olive oil, intestinal microbiota and obesity-related cancers has never been very clear.
The situation may change from now on thanks to a new study carried out by specialists from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), located in Hospitalet de Llobregat, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology, with the collaboration of the food and nutrition team. health of the Basque scientific and technological center AZTI, in Spain.
The study provides a relevant review and update of data that demonstrates how dietary habits could play a key role in the prevention of cancers, and the relationship between obesity and the risk of various types of cancer such as endometrial cancer. , the esophagus, the kidney, the colon and rectum, the pancreas and the liver, among others.
The Mediterranean diet and olive oil, tools to prevent cancer
In this study, Enrique Almanza-Aguilera from IDIBELL and his colleagues have examined the epidemiological evidence that links the Mediterranean diet and olive oil to obesity-related cancers, as well as the biological and intestinal microbiota mechanisms that could explain this. Connection. The results suggest that adherence to these dietary habits has a positive impact on the prevention of aerodigestive, gastrointestinal, and gynecological cancers.
Members of the research team. (Photo: IDIBELL)
In fact, it has been observed that in some cancers, especially gastrointestinal cancers, an imbalance in the intestinal microbiota is present and, this fact, produces inflammation and altered production of metabolites that can contribute to an acceleration of the carcinogenesis process. As Marta Farràs, co-author of the study and researcher at the Catalan Institute of Oncology and IDIBELL, points out, both in vitro and clinical studies show that the Mediterranean diet and olive oil can modify the composition of the intestinal microbiota and its mechanisms and Therefore, the modulation of this microbiota through diet could play an important role in the prevention and treatment of obesity-related cancers.
The study is titled “Mediterranean diet and olive oil, microbiota, and obesity-related cancers. From mechanisms to prevention”. And it has been published in the academic journal Seminars in Cancer Biology. (Source: IDIBELL)
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