We often have a hard time believing that simple choices we make each day-what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether we smoke, how much we exercise, and how well our social relationships support us- can make powerful differences in our health and well-being, even in our survival. But they often do.
For example, did you know that you can reduce your risk of breast cancer or improve your survival of cancer by eating differently? It really is quite simple. Society just makes us believe that we are doomed if we get cancer. I beg to differ....
Surviving Breast Cancer:
All women should know that just by consuming SOY you can increase your survival to breast cancer! In 2009, the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women diagnosed with breast cancer who consumed soy products such as soy milk, tofu, or edamame have 32% lower risk of recurrence and a 29% decreased risk of death, compared with similar women who consumed little or no soy. After I read the study I thought, "well how many people did they test this on??!"...IT HAS GOT TO BE BIAS! Turns out that the report was based on the largest population-based study of breast cancer survival -The Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study, which followed more than 5000 women for FOUR YEARS! Long term studies are always much more accurate.
Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer:
According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (March 2010), the consumption of soy, fruits, and vegetables helps reduce the risk of breast cancer. In fact, the research was based on more than 34, 000 women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. That's a loooot of women = reliable study!! Furthermore, they found that the LONGER the women had consumed these healthy foods, the less chance they had of developing breast cancer.
Reduce risk of Prostate Cancer:
In a study of more than 175,000 men published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in October of 2009, the med who consumed the most red meat had a 30% increased risk of prostate cancer, compared to those who consumed the least red meat.
So basically eat more vegetables and soy products. Reduce your read meat intake too if you can.
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Concering the last point about consuming red meat increases your chances of prostate cancer. I read an interesting article (forget where at the moment) on the chances of producing this enzyme/protein that has a direct link to prostate cancer. It found that red meat that wasn't marininated had a significantly higher chance of producing this molecule. However, if the red meat was marinated with rosemary for a couple of hours before cooked there was a significant reduction in this molecule. Again I can't remember what the molecule is called but its out there lol.
ReplyDeleteNot trying to promote eating red meat but if you were to consume some once in a while, marinating it beforehand will significantly reduce the chance of this carcinogenic molecule.