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Top 10 Foods and Drinks for Cancer Prevention
By Melissa Breyer, Care2 Senior Editor
Cancer is such a staggering epidemic–the sheer number of people affected by the disease is as heartbreaking as it is mystifying. As we are slowly learning more about the causes, we are beginning to learn more about preventive measures.
In terms of the relationship between diet and cancer, this leads us to lists of what not to eat (french fries, sigh), as well as the other side of the coin: What we should eat (artichokes and red wine, yay!).
In the book Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers, 2007) the authors Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth consider the importance of eating specific foods and drinks for cancer protection. Here’s what they suggest:
1. Cruciferous vegetables: Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy and kale. These score high for containing many anti-cancer substances, such as isothiocyanates.
2. Globe artichoke for very high levels of salvestrols.
3. Dark greens, such as spinach and romaine lettuce, for their fiber, folate and a wide range of cancer-fighting carotenoids. Other dark colored veggies, too, such as beets and red cabbage.
4. Grapes and red wine, especially for the resveratrol.
5. Legumes: beans, peas and lentils, for the saponins, protease inhibitors and more.
6. Berries, particularly blueberries, for the ellagic acid and anthocyanosides.
7. Flaxseed, especially if you grind it yourself and consume when fresh, for the essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid, lignans and other “good fats.”
8. Garlic, onions, scallions, leeks and chives, for many anti-cancer substances including allicin.
9. Green tea, for its anti-cancer catechins, a potent anti-oxidant.
10. Tomatoes, for the famous flavenoid lycopene.
Read more:
• See the list of Top 10 Foods that Increase Cancer Risk.
• If you think you don’t like Brussels sprouts, try this recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Cranberries.
• Know how to cook an artichoke? Here’s how.
• Wine is good, but which wine is best? Read about organic wine and what the labels mean here.
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Why is it half of the teenagers growing up to day dont eat vegetables and very little fruit, growing up as a child in England, we ate every kind of vegetable and fruite , and i still do today.
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Read "The China Study" or watch the documentary simply titled "Eating" for more information.
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Great info. Much needed in today's world with soooo much cancer!!!!
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Way to go, Dave Brew!! It couldn't be said any better!!! Keep it simple!
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FRESH FOOD AND VEGITABLES ARE THE MAINTHIGS.I HOPE.
THANK U.
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Excellent concepts, except for the grapes/wine
A) You would have to drink many gallons of wine per day to get more than a hint of resveratrol
B) Grapes and raisins, in America, are the most pesticided products in any country on earth. Delicious as they are, they are not worth instant degradation of health. Perhaps you would consider substituting these two decidedly-deadly items with grapeseed extracts or similar choice.
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nuts! fresh raw nuts daily! should of been in top 10 not just legumes, & legumes should of mentioned grains because of the need for a complete protein our bodies need reports claim. unknowing people like myself for decades didn't know about amino acids needed daily or the body dies, for i jumped at this kind of list years ago when cancer was happening & it got worse for lack of proper protein needed daily that only fresh raw nuts supply as to plants, plus legumes grains mixed are a complete protein, having the 8 essential amino acids needed daily out of the 20 if your body is healthy. plus all the vitamins & ionic minerals needed daily. even water can't be acidic if drank for that causes diabetis even. our bodies need a slightly alkaline diet meaning after the body removes the nutrients whats left should be an alkaline ash not an acidic ash for our blood is slightly alkaline. only fresh raw plants leave an alkaline ash, animal meat leaves an acidic ash, same with dairy it seems leaves an acidic ash. when i did proper vegan diet my infections throughout my body that were there for over 1 year & growing stopped, because i trusted the doctors advice & they did a urine test for about 16 of the 20 amino acids showing my diet left me malnourished needed a few essential amino acids which was a vegy diet, so now i add fresh raw nuts daily & my health seemes to improve over the last couple or so years. peace kind
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