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There’s a great connection between the amounts of fiber we eat and our colon cancer risk. But not all types of fiber are equally effective to prevent the development of colon cancer. People in western countries typically consume more processed foods which are generally low in fiber. Processing of food strips them of their healthy fiber. These processed foods are linked with a higher incidence of bowel cancer. Because all foods with fiber aren’t the same health wise, where can we find the good ones? more…

Lance Armstrong was lucky. If you know his cancer story, you’d be convinced that broccoli was key to his survival. You’d consider Lance and the vegetable broccoli to be superstars in their own right.

One is not enough

Even so, broccoli alone may not be enough to prevent cancer. Just one weapon to fight a many headed monster is risky. You don’t get out of the house on a bitterly cold winter day with only a hat without gloves, warm coat and boots. You’d freeze to death. The same thing rings true when preventing and battling cancer. A cancer mass is a very complex entity, built with defenses to survive and kill. Employing one strategy decrease our chance of survival. more…

Multi-vitamin supplements are a multi-billion dollar industry in the USA. If you’re an American, there’s a good chance a multi-vitamin supplement is sitting in your medicine cabinet. Go, check it out.

If you find that bottle of multi-vitamins, it isn’t actually surprising. Statistics confirm that half of Americans use a dietary supplement. 30% of Americans believe that multi-vitamins prevent cancer.

What is on the net

How true is this belief? The cancer blog discussed that intake of green and leafy vegetables are much better in preventing cancer than consuming them in a capsule. more…

Clearly, cancer is a major cause of death in most parts of the world. Mortality statistics reveal that one out of three deaths is due to cancer. Also, cancer inflicts too much suffering.

Cancer is a genetic disease. Generally, this is how most people think. If your dad had it so would you. However, scientific research doesn’t support this way of thinking. Heredity doesn’t necessary give you an ill fated road map to your death bed. Your genes aren’t the most critical factor but rather, what you eat! Your genes would be influenced by what goes through your mouth. However, eating habit are the most important factor. more…

Food supplements including multivitamins and minerals are popularly sold online. Believing the claims of these supplements, unsuspecting cancer patients consume them like magic pills only to end up frustrated when their expectations aren’t fulfilled.

When it comes to cancer prevention, the best is still a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. As I have discussed in an earlier blog, vegetables eaten along with anti-cancer medications proved to be very beneficial in the fight against cancer. But, Vitamin B12, folic acid, even Vitamin A, carotene and Vitamin E proved to be harmful for cancer patients when taken in concentrated and capsule form. more…

Genes are responsible for the expression of our health conditions. Health conscious people, like ourselves are so interested to know the diseases that they may have inherited from their ancestors. Certainly, forewarned is being forearmed. But, be obsessed and anxious, to think that once they have the gene for a certain disease, they are destined to suffer and die as their relatives did. Maybe by inaction! But when I reviewed recent studies, this shouldn’t really be your scenario. I really think that if you have a gene for a certain chronic illness you can prevent its full blown expression. more…

Canto, left, a 27-year-old rhesus monkey, is on a restricted diet, while Owen, 29, is not. The two monkeys are part of a study of the links between diet and aging.

New Studies on monkeys

The NewYork times reported recently that Richard Weindruch’s team for the University of Wisconsin published an ongoing study in the journal Science, showed an increase in life quality for the group that followed the diet than the group who ate the quantity they wanted. The studies had been going since 20 years and should wait till all the monkeys are dead to confirm the conclusion on cancer protection. The study was published midway as the results even now give a clear indication on the difference between the two groups under the study: one with restrictive diet and the other without.  more…

This is the perfect example of the opposite of processed Food. In complete food, the texture and the envelope of the food is there.In processed food or refined food the peel or skin is dissolved or ground to get rid of it. This action takes out most of the vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that we need as weapons to fight prostate cancer.

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I will comment on each of the 9 recommendations given by World Cancer Fund foundation which up came with this conclusion by the world experts on the manner.

Rule #1: 30 minutes of exercise everyday

It’s doesn’t look much, but research start to pick up on the subject. A cancer research made at University of Kentucky published in the Prostate journal done on an animal model which is prone to develop prostate cancer after some time, showed that 3 miles run every day for human, decrease the apparition of the disease. Furthermore, Cancer institutes like the Dana-Fraber are also interested in the beneficial effect of physical exercises. more…

A recent article was published on the top cancer fighting foods which give additional munitions in the war against cancer. By using functional foods everyday in an appreciated amount, you increase your chance to avoid cancer. Not only the method seems effective but also cheaper and a lot less painful then chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy. Sure, functional foods do not replace modern medicine but a healthy diet now can save you from an unpleasant diagnosis later at an oncologist near you .
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