Seven Food Secrets to Sidestep Cancer
Load your diet with these tasty foods, and you'll lower your risk of many types of cancer, including breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancers.
Start off with oatmeal. The soluble fiber in oatmeal is famous for banishing colon cancer, not to mention lowering cholesterol. Count on beans, oats, and many fruits and vegetables for this special fiber.
Turn it up with turmeric. Add a dash of curry to your next stir-fry. It's made with turmeric, a sizzling spice that may help prevent nine different cancers - prostate, breast, colon, skin, liver, stomach, mouth, blood, and lung. Topping cruciferous vegetables with turmeric could even fight prostate cancer.
Eat more legumes. If you eat beans or lentils less than once a month, you could be cheating yourself out of some hefty cancer protection. Studies have shown that eating these tasty legumes twice a week could lower your breast cancer risk 24 percent and help fend off colon, lung, and prostate cancers. A compound in legumes known as inositol pentakisphosphate may stop cancer cells from growing and could boost the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs.
Savor tasty tomatoes. Thanks to whopping amounts of lycopene, tomatoes are potent against prostate and pancreatic cancers. Cook them in olive oil to double the lycopene you absorb, and eat cooked tomato products like sauces, which pack more lycopene than raw tomatoes.
Pour on olive oil. It's full of healthy fats, one of which - oleic acid - targets the gene that promotes breast cancer, while other compounds called phenols protect against colon cancer.
Pick a pail of berries. Berries pack a three-part punch against cancer. Studies have shown that blueberries keep colon cancer cells from growing; the ellagic acid in raspberries and strawberries kills cervical cancer cells; and cranberry juice seems to stop cancer from spreading throughout the body.
Go nuts for selenium. Selenium-rich foods could help prevent cancer of the colon, rectum, stomach, esophagus, and lung. Just six to eight Brazil nuts give you 543 micrograms of selenium, nearly 10 times the amount you need each day.
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Excerpt from FC&A's 1,001 Prescription Secrets for Seniors.
