Colorectal cancer in India: controversies, enigmas and primary prevention.

One swears by whole meal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism is the only road to salvation of some, others insist not only on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At one time the only thing that matters is calories; at another time they are crazy about vitamins and roughage. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, have an ordinary mixed diet and don’t worry. Sir Robert Hutchinson, in Newcastle Medical Journal 1932, Vol 12