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Reducing the amount of cooked meat carcinogens in one’s diet by eating a more plant-based, fiber-rich, and legume heavy diet may be effective in lowering the risk of kidney cancer. Turmeric may be particularly powerful in activating death receptors in kidney cancer cells.
How few eggs should we eat to reduce the risk of prostate, ovarian, colon, and breast cancer?
The relationship between the consumption of eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods and cancers of the colon, breast, endometrium, pancreas, and throat.
What the best available balance of evidence says right now about what to eat and avoid to reduce your risk of cancer.
What can we conclude about the role of IV vitamin C after 33 years of trials involving at least 1,600 patients?
American Institute for Cancer Research recommendation compliance associated not only with cancer prevention and survival but less heart and respiratory disease mortality and a longer lifespan.
Plant-based diets appear to protect against renal cell carcinoma both directly and indirectly.
How do canned versus germinated beans (such as sprouted lentils) compare when it comes to protecting brain cells and destroying melanoma, kidney, and breast cancer cells.
The association between cancer and the consumption of deep-fried foods may be due to carcinogens formed at high temperatures in animal foods (heterocyclic amines and polycyclic hydrocarbons) and plant foods (acrylamide).
The spice turmeric appears to be able to switch back on the self-destruct mechanism within cancer cells.
Dramatically lower cancer rates in India may in part be attributable to their more plant-based, spice-rich diet.
Modest lifestyle changes that include the avoidance of alcohol may cut the odds of breast cancer in half, but certain grapes appear to contain natural aromatase inhibitors that may undermine the ability of breast tumors to produce their own estrogen.
Those who eat meat risk food poisoning from undercooked meat, but also exposure to cooked meat carcinogens in well-cooked meat. By boiling meat, non-vegetarians can mediate their risk of both.
