Cancer - Eat Cabbage, Cauliflower and Sprouts

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Eat This. It Kills Budding Cancer Cells

 

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Chow down on cabbage, cauliflower, and sprouts. These and other foods

may kill budding colon cancer cells.

 

Certain types of vegetables in the brassica family, including cabbage,

sprouts, cauliflower, horseradish, wassabi, and kale, release a chemical

called AITC that may kill budding colon cancer cells and actually stop

the disease from spreading, reports the BBC News Online of a new study

from Britain's Institute of Food Research.

 

The British scientists say that eating these vegetables two to three

times a week could protect against colon cancer. The magic chemical AITC

is released when brassica vegetables are chopped, chewed, cooked,

processed, and digested. " This is not a miracle cancer cure, but it does

show that preventive dietary measures can be discovered and exploited in

the same way as drugs, " lead researcher Ian Johnson told the BBC.

 

The right diet has long been suspected as a way to help prevent cancer,

so the World Cancer Research Fund will soon begin the world's largest

study into diet and cancer. An international team of scientists from the

United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Italy will review

more than 10,000 pieces of research with this goal: Figure out the

specific foods that protect against cancer. The findings are scheduled

to be released in 2006.

 

" The goal is to cut through the widespread confusion about diet's

relation to cancer risk by producing a comprehensive report that offers

simple, science-based recommendations for individuals and policy

makers, " Martin Wiseman, project director and WCRF medical and

scientific adviser,told the BBC. " Most people assume that cancer is

either all about luck or all in the genes, but neither is entirely the

case. "