What do you know about preventing cancer?

Healthy Food Bytes - What do you know about preventing cancer?

When the treatment is worse than the disease, it’s time to find a new treatment; or better yet, increase your chances of NOT getting cancer.

The U.S. spends billions of dollars on cancer research. We have top of the line treatment centers. But, the U.S. is severely inadequate when it comes to prevention. Patients have to be more informed than their doctors and do their homework on prevention b/c doctors don’t have a clue.

The U.S. spends way too much on treatment and nothing on prevention.

Cancer is preventable!

Based on a Harvard study, at least one third of cancers are due to diet just as one third of cancers are due to smoking. Naturopathic scientists and doctors believe diet plays a much more vital role. Only 5% of cancers are due to family history. And even if you have a family history of cancer, that does not mean that you are doomed – if you eat right and exercise and reduce stress.

The best way to reduce your risk of cancer is to consume a diet that decreases the chance of malignant cells from taking over. Also, boosting the immune system by eating a whole-food plant based diet and supplementation to fight free radical damage that can cause cancer and other diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

The diet/cancer link is no longer controversial. Check out the six year study “The China Project.” “This study concluded that the standard American diet contributes greatly to the high incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease.” There’s no surprise here.

Here are the findings from that study:
• A plant-based diet instead of an animal-based diet lowers the rate of breast, prostate, and colon cancers.
• Lung, breast, prostate, and colon cancers (the "big bad four") account for more than half of all cancer deaths. The good news is these are also the cancers for which dietary changes can lower the risk.
• Diet can be implicated in at least one-third of all cancers.
• Increasing your daily consumption of fruits and vegetables can greatly lower your cancer risk.
• Diet probably plays more of a role in cancer development than genes. It is well known that the incidence of most cancers are less in Asian cultures. The evidence for the diet-cancer link is studies have shown that when Asians moved to the United States and switched from primarily a plant-based diet to an animal-based diet, the cancer rates in these immigrants increased to approach those of Americans.

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