Cancer: Scientists find why poor diet increases risk

- Poor diet can increase the risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers. - Experts have not yet found any firm causative links between individual dietary components and cancer. - A new study has discovered that methylglyoxal — which is produced when glucose is broken down in cells — may help explain the link between poor diet and cancer. - They suggest that a long-term poor diet leads to an increase in the production of methylglyoxal, …