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Knowledge keeps us out trouble. Experience acquired over the years is helpful too. Sometimes, experience offers us painful lessons of the do’s and don’ts of daily living. Cancer can be a wake -up call about our current lifestyle. Like a boxer, we’ve got to give our best when the bell rings to summon us on stage. more…
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Who haven’t eaten potato lately? Mashed, French fried or in any which way. Solanum tuverosum, its scientific name, is an edible tuber that originated from southern montagne Andes of South America. The wild species originated from Peru. It’s one of the oldest crop humankind have cultivated, as far back as 7 to 10 thousand years ago. Worldwide, potato is the fourth largest food crop after rice, wheat and corn. Dishes around the world cook this versatile tuber in various ways.
The potato is a functional food. But researches show that the cancer fighting properties of the potato is hidden in the skin. So if we’ve eaten French fries or mashed potatoes lately with the skin stripped off, the cancer fighting phytochemicals are stripped off too. You’d only be eating starch which is a long chain of sugar. more…
(photo)Let’s continue our discussion on metastasis. One question that pops out: how can we increase our chances against prostate cancer metastasis? Prostate cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in men in the US. The bones are the most common site of metastasis.
(photo)Newly diagnosed with prostate cancer? I understand how you’re feeling. Outraged, depressed, anxious but most of all scared. It is indeed frightful. Moreover, if you’re shown how your prostate cancer can metastasize you’d bet your every single dollar to halt it. more…
Cranberries – scientifically named Vacciniun macrocarpon – grow lushly in Northern America and are also known as American cranberry or bog cranberry. Cranberries are functional foods.
Cranberries are used in a variety of American dishes. They are cooked into that sumptuous sauce for that Thanksgiving turkey. Cranberry juice is a popular drink mixed with other fruit juices. This fruit is so useful, why we do not use it all year around. 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…
You’ve heard of tomato fights in Europe. Once a year in Spain, 240, 000 pounds of cheery red tomatoes are thrown on the streets. An estimated 30,000 people descend In Bunol at the sunny Valencia region to celebrate the festival of tomatoes. In a spirit of merry making, people throw tomatoes at each other. Definitely, it’s the biggest food fight in the world! Imagine the spectacle and smell of squished and smashed tomatoes with the rich red pigment splattered everywhere. It looks like a lot of waste. It looks like a battleground too. 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…
In my quest for foods that fight cancer, I was able to discover two unlikely plant foods, though worlds apart but highly effective against prostate cancer, namely, the pomegranate and the soy based tofu.
Pomegranate is a native of Iran and found in the Mediterranean while tofu is an Asian delicacy common to Chinese, Korean and Japanese cuisine.
Numerous studies and researches conducted on the anti-carcinogenic properties of the pomegranate have convinced me that there is a wealth of knowledge here that would highly benefit prostate cancer patients. In one study, cancer cells were exposed to pomegranate extract and these cells failed to thrive but were killed. The more concentrated the pomegranate extract was, the more potent it was in killing the cancer cells. more…
It is proven that fruits and vegetables have anti-cancer properties and are beneficial in preventing certain cancers.
I came across a cancer research study that cites that there are about 20,000 to 30,000 phytochemicals – the cancer fighting compounds found in plants. Ironically, phytochemicals are produced as a defense mechanisms of plants when they are cut up, destroyed, bruised or are exposed to adverse temperatures, or are lacking in essential nutrients to thrive. When plants are exposed to Ultraviolet light and high temperatures anthocyanins, flavones, sinap esters, isoflavonoids and psoralens are activated and produced as a defense mechanism for the survival of the plant. At low temperatures anthocyanins are produces or when attacked by pathogens such as bacteria, fungi and viruses a number of pytochemicals such as pterecarpans, isoflavans, prenylated isopflavones, coumarins and a lot more are produced as defense against these pathogens. The same is true when nutrients in the soil are lacking. Low nitrogen soil content makes the plant produce flavonoids, isoflavones, a low phosphate soil content produces anthocyanins while a low iron causes pheolic acids to be produced. Like wise when plants are wounded numerous chemicals are produced. more…