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"Similarly, data from the U.S. cancer prevention Study found that as smoking increased so the rate of diabetes increased for both men and women.79 Nicotine has also been associated with decreasing peripheral circulation and thus increasing the tendency for amputation. Smoking increases adrenaline secretions by 23 percent and thus increases blood sugar. Obviously, smoking decreases lung function, and therefore oxygen in the system, and this lack of oxygenation to the tissues decreases peripheral circulation and leads to a greater tendency for gangrene and amputation." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Over time, her emotional freedom came from speaking at corporate "lunch-n-learn" programs about the importance of colonoscopies in cancer prevention. • One year after Andy's kidney transplant, he looked for a way to make his life meaningful and inspirational to others. After pushing himself to bike ride across the United States, he made it his passion to provide hope to patients waiting for an organ match by speaking about his expedition. There are many people in our world who give richly. But let's also note that our society has some weird and ambiguous notions about the nature of giving." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Previous chapters contain actionable how-to tips and tables, but this is the chapter that pulls as much of the information as possible back into the disease categories, so you can see which food synergy possibilities might help protect against heart disease and which relate to cancer prevention, stroke and blood pressure, and diabetes. I even have a list of food synergy examples that help with weight loss! But don't flip ahead to that part yet. First, I'm going to highlight the foods and diet themes that kept popping up all over the book." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Randall Oyer, MD, chairman of medical oncology at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, isn't afraid to say that diet and nutrition play major roles in health and cancer prevention, but he resists applying the connection to a short time frame. "What a person has been eating a year before she was diagnosed with breast cancer probably isn't as relevant as what she'd been eating a decade or two before," explains Dr. Oyer. Most cancer researchers admit that the scientific evidence that diet can reduce cancer risk is much stronger with colon cancer than it is with breast cancer." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Focus on dietary fat. For cancer prevention, some fats may be worse than others. While high-fat diets have been associated with an increased risk of colon and prostate cancer, it's the type of fat (rather than the total amount) that looks to be most important for preventing many types of cancer, including breast cancer. We may be adding ovarian cancer to that list, too. Although not definitive, a new study in Cancer Causes and Control found that women whose diets included large amounts of olive oil reduced their ovarian cancer risk by 30 percent." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Vegetables, fruit, and cancer prevention: a review. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 96, 1027-1039. 33. Ness, A. R., and Powles, J. W. (1997). Fruit and vegetables, and cardio-vascular disease: a review. Intl. J. Epi. 26, 1-13. 34. Jacobs, D. R. Jr., Meyer, K. A., Kushi, L. H., and Folsom, A. R. (1998). Whole grain intake may reduce the risk of ischemic heart disease death in postmenopausal women: the Iowa Women's Health Study. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 68, 248-257. 35. Rolls, B. J., Bell, E. A., Castellanos, V. H., Chow, M., Pelkman, C. L., and Thorwart, M. L. (1999)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Nutritional interventions in cancer prevention. J. Clin. Oncol. 23, 333-345. 15. Castro, L., and Freeman, B. A. (2001). Reactive oxygen species in human health and disease. Nutrition 17, 161, 163-165. 16. Sohal, R. S., and Weindruch, R. (1996). Oxidative stress, caloric restriction, and aging. Science 273, 59-63. 17. McCord, J. M. (2000). The evolution of free radicals and oxidative stress. Am. J. Med. 108, 652-659. 18. Lopaczynski, W., and Zeisel, S. H. (2004). Antioxidants, programmed cell death, and cancer. Nutr. Res. 21, 295-307. 19. Finkel, T., and Holbrook, N. J. (2000)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Nutritional "omics" technologies for elucidating the role(s) of bioactive food components in colon cancer prevention. J. Nutr. 135, 2694-2697. 13. Milner, J. A. (2004). Molecular targets for bioactive food components. J. Nutr. 134, 2492S-2498S. 14. Kaput, J. (2007). Nutrigenomics?006 update. Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. 45, 279-287. 15. Ochs-Balcom, H. M., Wiesner, G, and Elston, R. C. (2007). A meta-analysis of the association of N-acetyltransferase gene (NAT2) variants with breast cancer. Am. J. Epidemiol. 166, 246-254. 16. Steck, S. E., Gaudet, M. M., Eng, S. M., Britton, J. A., Teitlebaum, S." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Overall, COX-2 inhibitors are not recommended for cancer prevention in patients who do not have familial polyposis (even those with polyps found on routine colonoscopy) since polyps do not necessarily proceed to gastrointestinal cancer, and people on a coxib are five times more likely to have a cardiac event as they are to develop gastrointestinal cancer if they don't take a coxib." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"According to Steve Meyerowitz, in his book Water, the Environmental cancer prevention Center found that residents drinking from the west side of the Schuylkill River had 67 percent more deaths from esophagus cancer than those on the east side. Those drinking from the Delaware River on the east side suffered 59 percent more deaths from cancer of the brain, 83 percent more malignant melanoma, and 32 percent more colorectal cancers than those on the west side. This is just one of many studies linking specific water pollution to an increase in cancer rates." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene (ATBC) cancer prevention study smokers were treated with beta-carotene and alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) or placebo. There was an 8% increase in total mortality in the beta-carotene—supplemented group.34 Smokers with a prior history of heart attack in this study had a 75% increase in heart attack with beta-carotene therapy.35 Subjects getting vitamin E had a 2% increase in mortality." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Don't get me wrong, I'm all for cancer prevention. But several states have tried to mandate the HPV vaccine for teenage girls, and I don't believe that vaccines should ever be mandated. Whether your child is fifteen months or fifteen years old, you should always have a long discussion with your doctor about the benefits, and risks, of any vaccine. Only then can you decide what's right for your child. Substance Abuse Experimentation is a completely normal part of childhood." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Her areas of specialization include prevention of environmental risks to children, molecular epidemiology, cancer prevention, environment-susceptibility interactions in cancer, developmental damage, asthma, and risk assessment. Dr. Perera received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her masters and doctoral degrees in Public Health from Columbia University. Dr. Perera received the First Irving J." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Prebiotics lower blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels as well as having positive effects on calcium absorption and cancer prevention. The effect of probiotics can be enhanced when taken with prebiotics, a combination described as a symbiotic. Probiotics to the Rescue chapter 6 From Diarrhea to Constipation: Probiotics and the Toilet A Microscopic View of This Chapter Diarrhea can be acute or chronic. Acute diarrhea is caused by an infection of bad microbes. Probiotics prevent the ability of bad microbes to infect the intestinal tract." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Prebiotics may have positive effects on calcium absorption and cancer prevention. Despite how similar in spelling prebiotics is to probiotics, the two are very different. Only probiotics are living organisms. Prebiotics are actually carbohydrates. Prebiotics are carbohydrates that the body cannot digest, but probiotics can! Since the body cannot digest prebiotics, they are left unaltered as they travel through the intestinal tract and reach the colon ready to be used by the probiotics living there, particularly Bifidobacteria. Prebiotics are the preferred food source for probiotics." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Also the immune system plays a vital role in cancer prevention. A healthy immune system with sufficient resources should be able to keep the body healthy. Probiotics are well known for their ability to support the immune system and as such are likely to offer some support in the fight against cancer. Preliminary research suggests that probiotics offer anti-cancer benefits to the human body. The risk of lung, colon, liver and bladder cancer may be reduced with the help of probiotics. Lactobacilli species have been shown in research to have anti-cancer effects on the body." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Sun exposure, sunscreens, and skin cancer prevention: a year-round concern." Ann Pharmacother, 1996; 30(6):662-73) The medical industry's biggest argument in favor of using sunscreens is that they prevent skin cancer because they prevent sunburn, implying that skin cancers are caused by sunburn. But this is more a correlation than a cause-effect relationship. More recent studies done in England and Australia actually found much higher skin cancer rates among people who live mostly indoors compared with those who spend most of their time outdoors. As Drs." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Samuel Epstein of the cancer prevention Coalition, "Screening mammography poses significant and cumulative risks of breast cancer for pre-menopausal women." ..."The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening," says Dr. Samuel Epstein, one of the top cancer experts in the world. • The strong compression of breasts during the mammography procedure may help disperse existing cancer cells." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The Skin cancer prevention Study Group. TV. Engl. J. Med. 323, 789-795. 41. MacLennan, R., Macrae, F., Bain, C, Battistutta, D., Chapuis, P., Gratten, H, Lambert, J., Newland, R. C, Ngu, M., Russell, A., Ward, M., and Wahlqvist, M. L. (1995). Randomized trial of intake of fat, fiber, and beta carotene to prevent colorectal adenomas. The Australian Polyp Prevention Project. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 87, 1760-1766. 42. Albanes, D., Heinonen, O. P., Huttunen, J. K., Taylor, P. R., Virtamo, J., Edwards, B. K., Haapakoski, J., Rautalahti, M., Hartman, A. M., Palmgren, J., and Greenwald, P. (1995)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Although more than a hundred of animal and dozens of epidemiological studies have linked high selenium status and cancer risk, this is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled cancer prevention study with humans that directly supports the thesis that a nutritional supplement of selenium, as a single agent, can reduce the risk of cancer," said Gerald F. Combs Jr., a nutritional biochemist and Cornell University professor of nutritional sciences." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Celery contains phalides, which may help lower cholesterol, and coumarins, possibly useful in cancer prevention. Home Remedies Wild celery was used as a medicinal plant throughout the Middle Ages. People used it to "treat" conditions such as anxiety, insomnia, rheumatism, gout, and arthritis. Wild celery was also thought to provide strength and purify the blood. The Romans wore wreaths of celery leaves as an antidote against the intoxicating effects of wine and the ensuing headache. In Vietnam, celery has been used as a remedy for lowering high blood pressure." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"We've long known that functional foods like the Super-Foods play a role in cancer prevention, reduction of risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and a host of chronic ailments. But research is now demonstrating that many of these same foods can also boost your ability to burn calories and reduce excess weight accumulation. When you think about it, doesn't it make sense, doesn't it seem natural, and isn't it an appealing notion that you could lose weight employing the very thing that created your excess weight—food? Of course, the critical issue here is choice of food." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"CANCER: A number of studies have shown a link between grapes and cancer prevention, including the ability to inhibit growth of cancer cells. Specific cancer types that have been tested include breast, colon, stomach, and leukemia. A rat study found that consumption of Concord grape juice significantly inhibited breast cancer tumor growth. A cell study using advanced human prostate cancer cells found that treatment with grape seed extract inhibited cell growth and caused them to die." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Motohashi N et al. cancer prevention and therapy with kiwifruit in Chinese folklore medicine: a study of kiwifruit extracts. / Ethnopharmacol. 2002 Aug;81(3):357-364. Rinzler CA. The New Complete Book of Food: A Nutritional, Medical, and Culinary Guide. New York: Checkmark Books, 1999. Lemons www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/lemon.html Khaw KT, Day N, Symmons DP. Vitamin C and the risk of developing inflammatory polyarthritis: prospective nested case-control study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2004 Jul;63(7): 843-847. Manners GD at al. Bioavailability of citrus limonoids in humans.} Agric Food Chem." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Fruit, vegetables and cancer prevention: a review of the epidemiological evidence, Nitr Cancer, 18: 1-29. Bonni, A., Brunet, A., West, A. E., Datta, S. R., Takasu, M. A., and Greenberg, M. E., 1999, Cell survival promoted by the Ras-MAPK signalling pathway by transcription-dependent and -independent mechanisms, Science, 286: 1358-1362. Booth, C, Hargreaves, D. F., Hadfield, J. A., McGown, A. T., and Potten, C. S„ 1999, Isoflavones inhibit intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and induce apoptosis in vitro, Br J Cancer, 80: 1550-1557. Bors, W., and Saran, M." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "Antiproliferative effects Deregulated proliferation appears to be a hallmark of increased susceptibility to neoplasia. cancer prevention generally is associated with inhibition, reversion, or delay of cellular hyperproliferation. Most flavonoids have been demonstrated to inhibit proliferation in many types of cultured human cancer cell lines, whereas they have little or no toxicity to normal human cells." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Many people have made the association between drinking green tea or its active ingredient, a catechin called ECGC, and cancer prevention. But not so fast. Japanese women also all have black hair. We could just as easily make the association that having black hair prevents breast cancer. These silly associations have gotten us very confused as to the real causes of our problems, yet we all blithely believe them as we strive for good health." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The Prostate cancer prevention Trial enrolled nearly 20,000 men age sixty-two to ninety-one in a randomized controlled trial of a drug that is used for prostatism. Of the half on placebo, nearly 3,000 never had a psa greater than 4 ng/ml and still underwent prostate biopsy seven years into the trial. Prostate cancer was diagnosed in 15 percent (Thompson et al. 2004). Given the sampling error involved in needle biopsy, the true prevalence of prostate cancer was much, much higher in men." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene (ATBC) cancer prevention Study 29,133 male smokers from Finland were treated with beta-carotene, alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), a combination of the two, or a placebo in a randomized double-blind trial. There was an 18% increase in lung cancer and an 8% increase in total mortality in the beta-carotene-supplemented group.5 Smokers with a prior history of heart attack had a 75% increase in heart attack with beta-carotene therapy.6 Subjects getting vitamin E had a 2% increase in mortality." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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