A diet with a high glycaemic load could increase the risk of colorectal cancer, find US scientists following recent research on nearly 40,000 middle-aged women. Findings could further fire interest into new methods of controlling carbohydrates in our daily diets.Researchers at the university of California studied a group of 38,451 subjects from the Women’s Health Study, aged 45 years or older at baseline, for seven years. They used a 131-item semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire at the start of the study to assess average dietary intake during the previous year.
