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Eating Cruciferous Vegetables Can Help Reduce the Risk

of Several Types of Cancer, Including Breast Cancer

Sep 26,2006

 

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Specifically, it is the hydrolysis products of

glucosinolates found in such anti-cancer foods as

broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage that have

anticarcinogenic properties.

 

26/09/06 Breast cancer is the second leading cause of

cancer deaths among women. Making specific diet

changes is one of many steps -- like regular exercise

and reducing fat intake -- women can take to reduce

the chance of being diagnosed with this deadly

disease.

 

" There is much research showing a strong connection

between the regular consumption of cruciferous

vegetables like broccoli, brussel sprouts,

cauliflower, cabbage -- and more specifically, its

fermented form, Sauerkraut -- and a reduced risk of

breast cancer, " said Ryan Downs, co-owner of Great

Lakes Kraut Co. of Bear Creek, Wis. " It's very

encouraging news. "

 

A study, led by Michigan State University and

University of New Mexico researcher Dorothy Pathak,

observed that the breast cancer risk among Polish

women who immigrated to the United States -- after

being accustomed to a cabbage- and Sauerkraut-heavy

diet -- tripled to match that of U.S. women within one

generation. The study was presented during the

November 2005 American Association for Cancer

Research's " Annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention

Research " meeting.

 

" The subjects in Dr. Pathak's study who ate about four

servings of Sauerkraut or cabbage every week during

adolescence were about 74 percent less likely to get

breast cancer than women who ate about one and a half

or less servings of Sauerkraut every week, " Downs

said.

 

That's good news to women, especially since the

American Cancer Society expects to see 212,920 new

breast cancer cases this year and 40,970 breast cancer

deaths.

 

Pathak's findings aren't just beneficial to younger

women, she said, addressing delegates at the American

Association for Cancer Research meeting. Eating

anti-cancer foods like cabbage and Sauerkraut can also

aid older women.

 

Specifically, it is the hydrolysis products of

glucosinolates found in such anti-cancer foods as

broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage that have

anticarcinogenic properties, according to researchers

at the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute, the

Netherlands.

 

" Increased consumption of cabbage/Sauerkraut foods in

adolescence and adulthood may be an important primary

prevention for breast cancer, " Pathak said.

 

Another study, " Urinary Isothiocyanate Levels,

Brassica, and Human Breast Cancer, " published in the

July 2003 edition of Cancer Research, also determined

that women who consumed more cruciferous or brassica

vegetables exhibited a reduced risk of breast cancer.

 

" Greater brassica vegetable consumption, as measured

by the urinary ITC biomarker, was associated with

significantly reduced breast cancer risk among Chinese

women, " the study said.

 

Some of cabbage's strongest cancer prevention

abilities emerge during its fermentation process. The

process produces isothiocyanates, which aid in the

prevention of cancer in the breasts, according to a

study published in the October 23, 2002, edition of

the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The

vegetable's cancer-fighting abilities also emerge when

eaten raw or short- cooked, Pathak's research noted.

 

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