How Your Diet Affects Your Risk of Colon Polyps

Eating foods known to promote inflammation may increase a person's risk of developing polyps in the large intestine, or colon, a new study finds. "Inflammation is very consistently associated with [a person's] risk of colon cancer," said Dr. Roberd Bostick, a professor of epidemiology at Emory University in Georgia and the senior author on the study that was presented here Tuesday (April 19) at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting. In the study, the researchers used a "f