According to Dr Joel Fuhrman eating one large salad a day can quote "literally change your
life and make a huge difference in your overall health".
Eating raw vegetables aids our digestive system, by providing lots of fiber and nourishes our
body with phytochemicals and micronutrients that strengthen our immune system and help
to fight cancer.
A salad with the right ingredients can be an extremely powerful way to prevent and even
help reverse cancer.
So what vegetables should we be including to create the most powerful anti cancer salad,
is there any science to back this all up and what’s wrong with these salads?
Well this astonishing study is the foundation for this video so let’s hear as Dr Michael
Greger tells us more.
The link to the original video is in the description below…A landmark study was published, pitting
34 common vegetables against eight different types of human cancers.
Breast cancer, brain tumors, kidney cancer, lung cancer, childhood brain tumors, pancreatic
cancer, prostate cancer, and stomach cancer.
What’s being measured is tumor cell proliferation.
Here’s the control.
You drip some water on a human breast tumor, and nothing happens; it’s still powering
away at 100% growth rate.
And these seven vegetables appear useless against breast cancer.
But these six cut the cancer growth rate in half.
And these five at the end stopped cancer growth completely; stopped these tumor cells dead
in their tracks.
So using this groundbreaking data, imagine you’re standing in line at one of those
custom made-to-order salad places, where you get to choose your lettuce, choose your toppings,
then choose your dressing.
First, let’s choose our lettuce.
Boston, endive, radicchio, romaine, or spinach?
Which is healthier?
Out of the five, spinach is #1 against breast cancer—remember, the farther down, the better
it is at slowing down these cancer cells.
#1 against brain tumors, #1 against kidney cancer, #1 against lung cancer, and pediatric
brain tumors.
#1 against pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and stomach cancer.
Now it’s not #1 overall; there are 16 vegetables more powerful at stopping stomach cancer growth
than spinach.
But out of those five salad greens, spinach wins out across the board, against every cancer
type tested.
Yes or no?
Do carrots slow down cancer cell growth rates more than 50%?
The answer is no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, and no.
So, shredded carrots aren’t going to make our top toppings choice.
What about shredded beets?
Yes or no?
Yes.
Super yes!
Kidney cancer is a no; close to 50%, but not quite there.
But then yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
So, overall, yes for beets.
Are we putting cucumber on our salad?
As tasty as they may be, no.
For most cancers it suppressed tumor cell growth less than 50%.
What about tomatoes?
No tomatoes, either.
One of the most important findings of the year.
Which vegetable was it?
#1 against breast cancer?
Garlic.
#1 against brain tumors?
Garlic.#2 against kidney cancer: Garlic.
Lung cancer?
Garlic.
Childhood brain tumors?
Garlic.
Pancreatic cancer?
Garlic.
Prostate cancer and stomach cancer?
Garlic.
So might I suggest a garlicky salad dressing?
The two best families of vegetables for cancer prevention are the cruciferous vegetables,
like broccoli, kale, cabbage, and the allium family vegetables—like garlic, onions, and
leeks.
Let me just run through this one last time to highlight this important concept.
Starting from the beginning.
Cruciferous vegetables in green; allium family vegetables in yellow.
So what I want you to notice is the clustering of colors over to the right side, which illustrates
the power of these two superfood classes of vegetables—whether for breast cancer, brain
cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, or brain cancer.
The final step: the dressing.
Which is more nutritious: a salad with an oil-free dressing, or salad with an oil-based
dressing?
And the answer is: not fat-free, but fat-filled.
Because many of the phytonutrients in salad are fat soluble, and so our body needs fat
to absorb them.
The bioavailability of nutrients is higher when you take in fat.
Now oil isn’t good for you.
Just five walnut halves is all the fat you need to get at those fat-soluble nutrients
in our greens.
Ok so let’s put together this potent cancer fighting salad. using as much organic vegetables
as we can let’s start with a handful of spinach, some shredded beetroot, a few florets
of broccoli, perhaps a bit of thinly sliced red cabbage, chopped green onion, some red
bell pepper just to make it look pretty and then a raw tahini, lemon and garlic dressing
to finish.
When preparing garlic, it is best to let it sit for 5-10 minutes after slicing, chopping
or mincing.
This is because garlic contains two enzymes (alliin and alliinase) that are separated
when the garlic clove is whole.
When the cells are ruptured (through cutting, chopping, etc.) these two enzymes interact
to form a new compound called allicin which has cardiovascular, antibacterial, and anti-cancer
benefits.
Some garlicky dressing recipe ideas are in the description below.
To boost this dressing further you could add some oregano and a pinch of cayenne pepper.