How to Eat to Prevent Cancer.
You don't need supplements to prevent cancer — look to the food you eat every day to
pack in all the healthy nutrients you need.
You will need Berries Spices Sources of isothiocyanate Watercress Green tea Sources of folate Brazil
nuts Omega-3-rich fish Garlic Asian mushrooms Apples Flaxseed Broccoli sprouts and macadamia
nuts.
Step 1.
Pick up some blackberries; they contain twice the antioxidant content of blueberries.
Strawberries, cranberries, and raspberries are cancer-fighters, too.
Step 2.
Curry lovers, rejoice!
Turmeric, the spice that gives the popular Indian dish its yellow hue, inhibits the development
of cancer.
Ginger runs a close second, followed by cinnamon.
Step 3.
Eat your broccoli.
It contains isothiocyanate, a compound that fights several cancers.
While Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, and arugula also have ITCs, broccoli is king
because it has a particularly potent kind called sulforaphane.
Broccoli _sprouts_ have the highest concentration of sulforaphane.
Step 4.
Munch on watercress and drink green tea.
Both increase the amount of cancer-fighting antioxidants in your blood, and watercress
protects your DNA from changes that can trigger cancer.
Step 5.
Enjoy a bunch of asparagus; it contains the B vitamin folate, which may reduce the risk
of several cancers.
Other good sources of folate are orange juice, lentils, spinach, peanuts, and broccoli.
Step 6.
Go nuts — as long as they're Brazil nuts.
They contain selenium, which fights cancer cells.
Go for the unshelled ones, which have more selenium.
But limit yourself to one large or two small freshly-shelled nuts per day, as too much
selenium is toxic.
Macadamia nuts contain almost as much selenium as Brazil nuts.
Step 7.
Eat fish a few of times a week.
An Italian study found that people who eat fish twice a week reduce their risk of developing
several cancers by 30% to 50%.
Go with Omega-3-rich fish like salmon, sardines, mackerel, and tuna.
Step 8.
Indulge in garlicky foods.
Fans of this pungent bulb have a lower risk of stomach and colon cancer because cooked
garlic inhibits cancer cells from growing.
Step 9.
Consume more Asian mushrooms -- in lab tests, shitakes repressed cancer cell growth.
Also try maitake, zhu ling, enoki, and red reishi mushrooms.
Step 10.
An apple a day may keep the _oncologist_ away.
Studies have found that when pulverized apple skins were placed in a petri dish with colon
cancer cells, the cells' growth was inhibited by an impressive 43%.
So don't peel before eating!
Step 11.
Incorporate flaxseed into your diet.
In a Canadian study, women diagnosed with breast cancer who ate a daily flaxseed muffin
for 40 days showed a statistically significant reduction in the size of their tumor compared
with a control group.
Did you know The lowest rates of cancer in the world are in the Japanese regions Uji
and Shizuoka, where most of that country's green tea is harvested.
People in those areas drink more high quality green tea per capita than residents of any
other area of Japan.