Preventive Food Items
January 8th, 2007 by Shikha“Prevention is better than cure”
An old adage that is exceedingly relevant considering the shaky methods of breast cancer cure available with the current set of technologies.
Cancer progresses slowly. It starts with the “Initiation” of a single cell by cancer-causing substances. Food compounds can prevent activation of cancer-causing agents. They can block the mutation of a cell’s genetic material. They can stimulate enzymes in the body, which removes cancer-causing chemicals out of the body.
There are certain foods, which can serve the purpose of chemotherapy after the development of cancer. The chemicals contained in these foods have chemotherapeutic powers to fight cancer by retarding tumour growth, spread and recurrence. They can even attack malignancy by destroying cancer cells. Foods with such chemical compound can be used as supportive therapy to modem medical cancer treatments.
Below are some natural food stuffs which help in preventing breast cancer, these foods are also highly recommended for women who have already been through chemotherepy.
FOODS THAT PREVENT AND CONTROL BREAST CANCER
Cancer progresses slowly. It starts with the “Initiation” of a single cell by cancer-causing substances. Food compounds can prevent activation of cancer-causing agents. They can block the mutation of a cell’s genetic material. They can stimulate enzymes in the body, which removes cancer-causing chemicals out of the body.
There are certain foods, which can serve the purpose of chemotherapy after the development of cancer. The chemicals contained in these foods have chemotherapeutic powers to fight cancer by retarding tumour growth, spread and recurrence. They can even attack malignancy by destroying cancer cells. Foods with such chemical compound can be used as supportive therapy to modem medical cancer treatments.
Below is the list of such foodstuffs
Cabbage and other Cruciferous Vegetables: Cabbage and other cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower and Brussel sprouts are one of the most important foods which may help immunize against breast cancer by managing oestrogen, a known promoter of this type of cancer. These vegetables quickly remove oestrogen from the body by speeding up the metabolism of oestrogen and burning up the hormone so that less of it is available to feed cancer. This has been revealed by the research studies. These studies indicate that specific indoles in these cruciferous vegetables accelerate a process in which the body deactivates or disposes of the type of oestrogen that can promote breast cancer.
Olive Oil: Eating too much fat has been linked with breast cancer. This has been adequately proved by a research study of 750 Italian women. It was found in this study that the women who eat the most saturated fats had tripled the risk of breast cancer compared with those eating the least. Eating too much fat can influence the spread and virulence of an existing breast cancer, its recurrence and survival chances. Some researches show that the more saturated animal fat in your diet, the greater the odds of auxiliary lymph node involvement or spread of the cancer, and the more total fat in a diet, the greater the chances of dying from breast cancer. The olive oil is however, not cancer culprit. In fact, new evidence suggests that olive-oil-type fat can help counteract cancer.
Soya-beans: This vegetable contains compounds which can manipulate oestrogen and also directly inhibit the growth of cancerous cells, thereby reducing the risk of breast cancer in women of all ages.
Wheat-bran: One way to reduce the chances of breast cancer is to curtail oestrogen levels in the blood. It can be achieved by taking wheat-bran cereals. Wheat-bran has specific property to lower dramatically the circulating levels of cancerĀ promoting oestrogen in the blood.
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January 28th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
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