If you thought trading the regular food items for diet food will help you reduce weight, you just might be trading the good stuff with cancer. Some Diet foods are high in salt and nitrites that have shown to cause cancer. Also, to reduce the fat and sugar content in a food item, these are replaced with chemicals and food dyes that are widely known to cause cancer. Moreover, these chemicals do not trigger the satiety signals in brain, causing you to eat more of the “Diet” food, thereby increasing your weight.
14. Alcohol
Regularly drinking alcohol is found to increase the risk of Mouth, Upper Throat, Esophageal, Breast and Bowel cancer. It does not matter what type of alcohol drink you drink, the alcohol contained in the drink may alter the DNA structure of cells and triggers cancer causing genes. Also, heavy alcohol use has been linked to cancer of the liver.