Saturday, January 21, 2012

Cancer Prevention

According to scientists, cancers can be traced to what we do or don't eat. More attention is being focused on a new field of research that is called chemoprevention while the search for a cancer cure goes on. Chemoprevention studies the ways of blocking cancer by preventing normal cells becoming malignant.



EATING fruits and vegetables that are rich in vitamins and other important nutrients will lower the risk of cancer. Scientists are isolating chemicals which can prevent cancer in food such as soybeans, green tea, and orange peel.


For example, they use a soybean derivate to fight mouth cancer resulting from smoking. This has been practised by a scientist in Pensylvania University. There is something in the soybeans which seems to turn the cells of cancer back into normal cells.


Chemoprevention allows the scientists to pinpoint fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices that are strong in anti cancer fighters. We can boost our defenses against cancer by eating these regularly.


Former US President George Bush Sr. said that he did not like broccoli, even though brocoli packs a powerful anti cancer wallop. This vegetables include a substance called sulforaphane that researchers from John Hopkins University say is one of the best natural cancer fighters. Besides that, broccoli contain "indoles", a substance which can help prevent many cancers, such as breast, colon, stomach, lung, and esophagus cancer.


Other vegetables that have high concentrations of sulforaphane and indoles are sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower.


Skin Cancer
Brocolli contain vitamins C and E and also beta carotene, the antioxidants that will help combat cell damage and slow down tumor growth. Many fibers are in brocolli. The function of fiber is to combat colon cancer.


Green tea has antioxidants which appear to be powerful anti cancer agents. This may account for the lower incidence of certain cancers in Asia compared with western Nations.


Strawberries, grapes, and nuts contain "ellagic acid". It is the kind of scavenger that goes after, for example, cancer-causing substance as "nitrosamines" produced if bacon fried, the hydrocarbons that found in tobacco smoke or aflatoxin, a mold that often contamineate peanuts.


National Cancer Institute states that people who eat more than 17 servings of whole grain bread and cereal per week will reduce the risk of cancer.


An exiting key to prevent a cancer that is to put in and on the herbs and spices in and on foods. According to experts of the Texas University M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, garlic is one of the best. They say that garlic is packed with compounds of cancer fighting sulfur. Garlic does not only make food taste great but also prevents colon and esophagus cancer. Besides garlic, turmeric also contains an extremely active cancer prevention agent.

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