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Prevent Cancer by Eating Healthy Foods

22 February 2010 445 views No Comment

How to help the elderly? You can provide services for the elderly by providing programs for the elderly provide nutrition for the elderly. What are food for the elderly?

  • Go green!

According to the American Cancer Society, Asian women have breast cancer rates one-fifth of American women. While soy and vegetables, proved to contain the outbreak to prevent breast cancer.

One study shows, China’s women have the highest level of isothiocyanates. Isothiocyanate itself is a compound found in broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts and other vegetables. All kinds of vegetables are allegedly powerful reduce breast cancer by 50 percent.

  • Watch your intake of vitamin D

Low vitamin D levels have recently been associated with increased risk of heart disease. Now, researchers have made a correlation between nutrition and breast cancer. A study in the Annals of Epidemiology found that women with pramenopause vitamin D have a higher risk of approximately 30 percent lower breast cancer.

Well, vitamin D-rich foods besides dairy products, was there to fish. Try to cook salmon, and sardines as your dinner menu so that intake of vitamin D in the body provided for.

  • Vitamin A

Carrots not only help protect you from eye diseases, but also slow the growth of cancer cells. Women who eat at least five servings a day of food rich in vitamin A and carotenoids (carrots, spinach, sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, and apricots), can reduce the risk of breast cancer more than 20 percent. This effect is seen primarily in women with pramenopause family history of breast cancer.

  • Green tea

A recent study from Japan, where tea served at almost every meal, found that women with cancer who drank at least three cups of green tea a day may reduce the risk of recurrence more than 30 percent. Some scientists believe the reason that green tea is an antioxidant that contains epigallocatechin-3-gallate high, which can stop the growth of cancer cells.

  • Notice how the food processing

Using the technique of high temperature when making a cake, or cooked meat, it has the potential to develop cancer-causing compounds. So, how about a barbecue? You do not need to cook it too long.

Soak or marinate meat, poultry, and fish for the barbeque only a few minutes before processing. This can help you to add flavor, and cooked foods, but in wet conditions-not too dry

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