Cancer foods in the news today

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LONG BEACH, California (AFP) – Cabernet and chocolate are potent medicine for killing cancer, according to research presented here Wednesday.

Red grapes and dark chocolate join blueberries, garlic, soy, and teas as ingredients that starve cancer while feeding bodies, Angiogenesis Foundation head William Li said at a prestigious TED Conference.

"We are rating foods based on their cancer-fighting qualities," Li said. "What we eat is really our chemotherapy three times a day."

The Massachusetts-based foundation is identifying foods containing chemicals that evidently choke-off blood supplies to tumors, starving them to death.

Li cited a Harvard Medical School study showing that men who ate cooked tomatoes several times weekly were 30 to 50 percent less likely to have prostate cancer.

"There is a medical revolution happening all around us," Li said. "If we're right, it could impact on consumer education, food service, public health, and even insurance agencies."

About a dozen drugs are already in use to deprive tumors of blood supplies in a treatment tactic called "anti-angiogenesis.

The foundation pitted some foods against approved drugs and found that soy, parsley, red grapes, berries and other comestibles were either as effective or more potent in battling cancer cells.

Eaten together, the foods were even more effective in fighting cancer.

"We discovered that Mother Nature laced a large number of foods and herbs with anti-angiogenesis features," Li said.

"For many people around the world, dietary cancer treatment may be the only solution because not everyone can afford cancer drugs."

The foundation also discovered that anti-angiogenesis properties of foods melt away fat, which relies heavily on blood flow to sustain itself.

Tests showed that mice genetically prone to be chubby could be trimmed to average mouse size using the approach.

"It got weight down to a set point for normal mice," Li said. "In other words, we can't create supermodel mice."

John23

Pepperoni Pizza is health food!
Re:
"Li cited a Harvard Medical School study showing that men who ate
cooked tomatoes several times weekly were 30 to 50 percent less likely
to have prostate cancer."

That doesn't explain all those guys in Italy suffering from cancer.

A good, well balanced diet is important for survival, and includes meats
as well as vegetation and fish. Taking in an overabundance of a few
specific items in an effort to kill cancer cells, - while leaving out all the other
items of dietary value - may leave one a little disappointed (and sick).

"Most fruits and vegetables can be eaten uncooked to get full
nutritional value. Tomatoes are probably an exception. More
lycopene is released from a cooked tomato. This could be the
reason why the decreased cancer risk was seen with tomato sauce
and other tomato-based products, rather than raw tomatoes.

In addition, lycopene is best absorbed through the intestine
when eaten with fat."

From the source: Harvard University



John
(out for a slow-drip pizza)

thready

John23 said:

Pepperoni Pizza is health food!
Re:
"Li cited a Harvard Medical School study showing that men who ate
cooked tomatoes several times weekly were 30 to 50 percent less likely
to have prostate cancer."

That doesn't explain all those guys in Italy suffering from cancer.

A good, well balanced diet is important for survival, and includes meats
as well as vegetation and fish. Taking in an overabundance of a few
specific items in an effort to kill cancer cells, - while leaving out all the other
items of dietary value - may leave one a little disappointed (and sick).

"Most fruits and vegetables can be eaten uncooked to get full
nutritional value. Tomatoes are probably an exception. More
lycopene is released from a cooked tomato. This could be the
reason why the decreased cancer risk was seen with tomato sauce
and other tomato-based products, rather than raw tomatoes.

In addition, lycopene is best absorbed through the intestine
when eaten with fat."

From the source: Harvard University



John
(out for a slow-drip pizza)

Can I go with you?
John,
I love Pizza, think if it is made with whole grain crust, has olive oil, basil, veggies, organic cheese-not sure if there is such a thing-and with just a bit of sausage it would be close to the perfect food, (except for sausage)!

tootsie1

Chocolate and Tea!
I love all those foods, so it's no hardship to consume them!

*hugs*
Gail

John23

thready said:

Can I go with you?
John,
I love Pizza, think if it is made with whole grain crust, has olive oil, basil, veggies, organic cheese-not sure if there is such a thing-and with just a bit of sausage it would be close to the perfect food, (except for sausage)!

I'm buying!
I'll have to ask emily if the Champion will squeeze the juice
out of a slice with extra cheese..... mmmm..mmm..mm..mm..mmm.




(where'd I put that organic beer...? I swear I had some here...)

Nana b

tootsie1 said:

Chocolate and Tea!
I love all those foods, so it's no hardship to consume them!

*hugs*
Gail

I love them too - some thoughts for those that want to eat healt
The tomatoes must not have been organic! :-) But they are good for you, and cooked, not raw!

The Anti Cancer book covered a lot of the whys! And he doesn't say don't do it, do it in moderation if you have to, but the benefits are there. Just like stress is a killer so are the pesticides, so we just need to think and be careful. It's up to us to make sure we listen, read, and learn, there really isn't much else to do. Why be a sitting duck.

I feel really great, and I sure hope my scans come back clear, because although I have not been eating perfectly I sure as heck am trying to be good to my body!

There are so many foods out there to eat. I just bought a flat of strawberries and they are soooooo good. I find that I don't even eat a full meal on a dinner plate anymore. I eat fruits all day, some nuts, a bowl of oat or bran cereal with berries, oatmeal, salad with cranberries, walnuts, a bit of parmesean, some times I add chicken. Saute some greens, add shitake mushrooms. I found out that a bit of dark chocolate has as much omega 3 as salmon and the amount of sugar is not enough to hurt the effects of it, so will I have a dark chocolate now and then, yep! Red Wine once glass a day is also good for you, but the dark chocolate is even better for you. Home made chicken soup with squash, carrots, green beans, yummy. Northern beans with carrots and celery and a side of simmered kale or collard greens. I serve my food on salad plates, those wonderful dishes that I collect, the best, just because, I am being so good to myself! There is so much food out there that is good for you! Can't hurt to experiment. I grow Rosemary, Sage and Oregano and found out those are some of the best spices to eat. Yeah baby! My only problem is that I can't find that much organic veggies in this area, but that is my next mission. I have to talk to my brother who runs a ranch of 100s of thousands of acres of produce! What the heck!

But really, I have heard that this kind of eating is costly, but not really, it can be done. Can' do organic, eat things with peels, and peel them away, soak them in water first to get the pesticides off. Don't buy ready made salad, they have to preserve them. Buy a lettuce and take off some layers of leaves, soak, spin and eat. Eat cabbage, add it to the chicken soup. Gassy yes, but don't eat the whole thing. Your appetite will decrease too. I find that I can't eat more then what is on a small salad plate. I used to eat a rib eye, potato, and......

Eat Walnuts, and natural almonds.
Olive oil is expensive, but you don't have to use that much, if you do, you are frying and that is not really good for you. Like Julia says, you must saute'.

Take care, and good night! This sure got my mind off my scans!

and, its not the tomatoes killing those in Italy, it is the cheese which one can't digest easily and the white flour!

Now a whole wheat pizza dough, with no cheese and plenty of tomatoes, garlic, onions and peppers, will kill some cancer cells! :-)