Well, hopefully my not smoking will help cancel out my refusing to ever eat a mushroom.
Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk
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#12Well, hopefully my not smoking will help cancel out my refusing to ever eat a mushroom.
Even champignons? Chanterelle?
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#13Well, 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!
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#14I understand an observational study is the best you can get, but self-selection on mushroom consumption seems an impossible to correct variable. My stereotypes would expect elevated-mushroom eaters to consume more raw food, salads, etc.
I eat cooked mushrooms with nearly every dinner. Definitely don't have much in terms of raw foods and rarely eat salad.
You cook your own meals, which is unfortunately a huge step above many many people.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
As per reddit, so take it with a grain of redd salt: "What he doesn't want to say out loud in plain English is that agaratine containing mushrooms LIKE PORTABELLOS when consumed RAW are highly CARCINOGENIC while some compounds in white button mushrooms can help prevent and treat breast cancers agaratines can cause cancer, they are heat unstable so if cooked it's not a big risk but raw like they are served often in sa…
In general, the rule of thumb is to never eat any mushrooms raw. But there are a few exceptions, including button mushrooms. I won't eat raw mushrooms, except maybe truffles (if you really cook truffles then what's the point?).
I think you mean button mushrooms are no exception.
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#17I still wonder what Paul Stamets was alluding to about crimini mushrooms and cancer risk on his episode of the Joe Rogan podcast where he seemed unable to talk freely
Paul Stamets is a great story teller, but he’s regarded as a quack among the scientific community. Going on Joe Rogan and alluding to some conspiracy that would bring him harm for warning people of the truth about eating mushrooms is particularly silly, because in doing so he communicated the warning he supposedly had to hide. Are we supposed to believe the conspirators they would harm him are okay with him telling everyone to avoid portabello mushrooms as long as he doesn’t reveal why?
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#18Well, 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!
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.
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#19Could 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 highest mushroom consumption compared to the group with the lowest consumption. The “95% CI” represents the confidence interval, indicating the range within which the true risk reduction is likely to fall. In this case, it’s between 0.55 and 0.78. “n = 17” likely refers to the number of studies or datasets included in the analysis.
Is that accurate? The top line conclusion of this study was that eating more mushrooms was associated with a 34% reduction of risk of all cancers?
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#20Earlier 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.
My toddler doesn't like mushrooms — except on pizza. I think it's partly the texture, and partly because it's masked by the rest of the pizza flavor.