What's on Your Anti-Cancer Grocery List?
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What's on Your Anti-Cancer Grocery List?
If it is cabbage, garlic, and broccoli sprouts, you are right on target.We may live in a high tech world, but when it comes to protecting our health and reducing our risk for cancer, only the most rudimentary of vegetables will do, according to a report by the American Association for Cancer Research.
Five studies presented in October 2005 during the American Association for Cancer Research’s 4th annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in Baltimore, Md., report exciting new findings, namely that by adding to our diet a certain group of vegetables and herbs containing the compounds glucosinolates and sulforaphane, we can prevent or, in some cases, even halt the growth of cancer.
Broccoli sprouts may help prevent gastric cancer and may protect against skin cancer from UV light. Cabbage as in sauerkraut may help protect women from breast cancer; and the herb Ginkgo Biloba can lower the risk of developing ovarian cancer. And then there is garlic. This pungent herb can protect us from carcinogens often produced by cooking meats at high temperature, such as barbecuing. The rule for selecting anti-cancer vegetables seems simple: Basic is good.
Source: American Association for Cancer Research, 10.05
