Eating fruits and vegetables reduces the rate of cancer

Several other studies have shown that eating dark berries also reduces the rate of cancer - this proves an ongoing study: vegetables, especially colorful ones, can be reduced cancer rate.

Only 3 servings of fresh cauliflower or cabbage a month can reduce the incidence of bladder cancer to 40%.

275 people who had bladder cancer and 825 people without cancer were surveyed by the team at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. They focus primarily on the group of people using cruciferous plants such as cauliflower and cabbage. These vegetables are rich in isothiocyanates, a compound that can reduce the risk of cancer.

The results for non-smokers are indeed impressive. The American Association of Cancer Research meeting will be organized by researchers during the week in Philadelphia. Compared to smokers who eat less than 3 servings of raw vegetables per month, 73% of non-smokers who eat at least 3 servings are less likely to be in the bladder cancer group.

Eating fruits and vegetables reduces the rate of cancer
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For both smokers and non-smokers, people who ate only 3 servings of raw vegetables reduced their risk of disease by 40%. But the same effect of cooked vegetables has not been detected. Dr. Li Tang, the lead researcher, said: 'Cooking food reduces 60-90% of ITCs (isothiocyanates)'.

A second research group from Roswell Park tested cauliflower sprouts with mice.

They used mice that had bladder cancer implants and had some of them eat dried and chilled broccoli sprouts. The more children eat, the lower the risk of bladder cancer, said Dr. Yuesheng Zhang, the lead researcher. They found that the compound was processed and excreted within 12 hours after eating, indicating that the compound protected the bladder from within.

Dr. Zhang said: 'The bladder is like a container, cancer often appears along the inner surface - the epithelium is exposed to urine - perhaps because the tissue is always subject to toxic substances in urine. public. '

The third study of the Ohio State University group made patients with Barrett's esophagus eat black raspberries, a disease that can lead to esophageal cancer. Black raspberries, sometimes called blackberries, also contain many compounds that prevent cancer.

Laura Kresty and her colleagues in Ohio have given people with this disease black raspberries that have been dried daily for 6 months: women of 32 grams, and men of 45 grams. They conducted a urine test on the concentration of two compounds - 8-isoprostane and GSTpi - from here it is possible to know whether the cancer is raging in the body.

Kresty said: 58% of patients significantly reduced the amount of 8-isoprostane, meaning less danger, and 37% had higher GSTpi. This compound is often low in patients with Barrett's disease while it is resistant to cancer-causing agents.