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Recent studies suggest that making a few easy changes to your diet--eating more of some foods, less of others--may bolster your defenses against some malignancies.   I have been inundated with questions regarding this topic lately so we have preempted our scheduled articles which will resume next Wednesday.

 

Eat More: Beans Among 3,409 men and women studied at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, those who ate the most beans, rich in plant estrogens, were 46% less likely to get lung cancer.

 

Yellow, orange, and dark green leafy veggies People who had more than five daily servings of these vegetables in their diet had half the pancreatic cancer risk of those who ate two or fewer, in a University of California, San Francisco, study of 2,227 men and women. Suspected protectors: fiber, folate, and vitamins E and C.

 

Eat Less: Grilled meat Two carcinogens--heterocyclic amines and benzopyrene--form in meat under high temps. In a University of Minnesota study of 867 adults, those who consumed the highest amount of these chemicals (based on how often they ate grilled meat) had up to 2.4 times the risk of pancreatic cancer as those who ate the least.

 

Watch your weight. Obesity may explain the 0.5% yearly rise in breast cancer cases in women older than age 49, reports the American Cancer Society. Postmenopausal women usually have less circulating estrogen, which should lower their cancer risk. But because fat cells release estrogen, overweight women over 50 may lose their advantage.

 

For cancer fighting and prevention here is what is helpful:

 

Approximately 70% of your food should be plant based with no more than one third from animal sources.  Vary colors of organic fruits and vegetables especially good are dark green, red and orange vegetables.

 

Folate a B-Vitamin, may protect against certain cancers.  Foods especially high in folate are asparagus and eggs.  Our TriB and Folixor are excellent supplement sources of the vitamin.

 

Lycopene from tomatoes are excellent fighters of the prostate and breast cancers. Processed tomato products such as tomato paste are excellent sources of the nutrient.

 

Green tea is controversial to some but most research has revealed it as a potent cancer fighter.  See our Green Tea Suppository by Zetpil

 

Proper fluid, (water) intake is essential to both cancer fighting and prevention.

 

Phytochemicals in beans show slowed cancer growth across many different types of cancer.

 

Cruciferous vegetables which include broccoli,  cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale and supplements such as: DIM-PRO 100 by Pure Encapsulations are very potent for hormonal cancers in both treatment and prevention.

 

 

 

Ellagic Acid in berries such as strawberries and raspberries deactivate cancer causing substances and slow the growth of cancer cells. Also the potent antioxidant activity in blueberries may have potent cancer fighting powers.

 

Sugars and heavily fried grilled or foods cooked at high temps as well as alcohol intake greatly increases risk of the disorder.

 

Sneak in the good stuff. Get more cancer-fighting produce into your diet: Add berries to green salads, use cauliflower in mashed potatoes, stir beans into soups, and snip fresh spinach into pasta dishes.

 

 

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