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Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by nologic01 »

I would like to see alongside the results of all corresponding "Higher X Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer" metastudies, where X is every other healthy food infatuation over the ages (Vitamic C, Mediterranean diet, Spinach, Broccoli etc).

For sure there might be some benefit for some types of cancer or other diseases, but the constant barrage of marginal results about different food categories does not help create confidence.

Somewhere in the background there is a hugely profitable supplements industry with dubious impact.

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by klyrs »

irrational wrote: post #15
codetrotter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even champignons? Chanterelle?

I said what I said.

I really don't understand why people would read your comment and recommend you eat mushrooms. I'd suggest smoking them, for a laugh, but geez. When an adult says they don't eat a thing, leave them be.

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

codetrotter wrote: post #12
irrational wrote: post #11

Well, hopefully my not smoking will help cancel out my refusing to ever eat a mushroom.

Even champignons? Chanterelle?

I know, it seems weird. But there are people who don’t eat plants, and people who don’t eat any meat, so not eating any fungus makes about as much sense.

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by NL807 »

chongli wrote: post #13
irrational wrote: post #11

Well, hopefully my not smoking will help cancel out my refusing to ever eat a mushroom.

That’s too bad. Is it the texture you don’t like? I know a lot of people don’t like mushrooms. I love them! A good cream of wild mushroom soup with some crusty bread is one of the best meals on a damp, chilly autumn day! Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the soup! That is just heaven in a bowl!

Got a good recipe to share?

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by neom »

NL807 wrote: post #26
chongli wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s too bad. Is it the texture you don’t like? I know a lot of people don’t like mushrooms. I love them! A good cream of wild mushroom soup with some crusty bread is one of the best meals on a damp, chilly autumn day! Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the soup! That is just heaven in a bowl!

Got a good recipe to share?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qRexHDwfds

Unreal good.

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by herbst »

atourgates wrote: post #18
chongli wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s too bad. Is it the texture you don’t like? I know a lot of people don’t like mushrooms. I love them! A good cream of wild mushroom soup with some crusty bread is one of the best meals on a damp, chilly autumn day! Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the soup! That is just heaven in a bowl!

I read the headline and immediately thought of ways I’d could sneak mushrooms past my mushroom-disliking child. For him it’s the texture, so we might be looking at some cream of mushroom soup.

I learned to love them. I always liked the taste so I either mashed them or didn't eat the mushrooms itself in a sauce. With time I learned to like the texture as well.

Except Champignons which I still dislike. They have the worst texture of nearly all food I ever tried.

So maybe also try avoiding Champignons

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

atourgates wrote: post #18
chongli wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s too bad. Is it the texture you don’t like? I know a lot of people don’t like mushrooms. I love them! A good cream of wild mushroom soup with some crusty bread is one of the best meals on a damp, chilly autumn day! Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the soup! That is just heaven in a bowl!

I read the headline and immediately thought of ways I’d could sneak mushrooms past my mushroom-disliking child. For him it’s the texture, so we might be looking at some cream of mushroom soup.

Honestly, a great deal of that texture can be hidden simply by chopping them small and adding them to meals that have bits of a similar size.

Some homemade vegetarian meat substitutes are mostly lentils and finely chopped mushrooms. I've seen it for a burger, "meatballs", taco filling, and one that I make is a sausage roll - I just use the filling in bread dough.

You can also hide texture by adding them to ground meats that you are using in other things. Sauces also hide texture and you can add them to a variety of soups.

Re: Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk

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Post by OJFord »

atourgates wrote: post #19

Could someone help me understand how to interpret this line: > Higher mushroom consumption was associated with lower risk of total cancer (pooled RR for the highest compared with the lowest consumption groups: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.78; n = 17) Specifically the “0.66; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.78; n = 17” line? ChatGPT told me: > The “pooled RR” of 0.66 indicates that the risk of cancer was 34% lower in the group with the highe…

IANA statistician, but yes I believe that's correct.

The confidence interval means that it might not actually be 0.66, sample size n = only 17 after all, but (with 95% certainty) the true value for the population sampled lies within 0.55-0.78.

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