Cancer
Diet and Cancer
Tied to a diet rich in fat and cholesterol with an increased risk of breast cancer
According to researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, high levels of fat and cholesterol in the diet play an important role in the development and metastasis of breast cancer.
The research team was interested in studying the relationship between diet and breast cancer because the incidence of this cancer is five times higher in Western countries than in other developed countries. On the other hand, some studies have shown an increased incidence of breast cancer in populations of immigrants moving from a region with low incidence. Read the rest of this entry »
Healthy Living Tips Prevent Cancer
Behind this, especially in developed countries, have many people who implement healthy behavior in line with the movement of cancer prevention.
The following steps are recommended to prevent cancer:
• Eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, grains such as tofu and a lot of foods that contain fiber. At least one or two times a day to consume green vegetables and fruits.
• Avoid excessive weight gain or obesity. weight 1 times a week. Research shows, due to obesity, a greater risk of cancer, particularly breast cancer, cervical, colon, stomach, kidney, and gallbladder.
• Reduce too much fried food and also containing protein and high fat and offal.
• Limit foods that are processed with high temperature and long time or with a specific treatment that can cause food carcinogenic like marinated, smoked, baked, roasted until the outside of charcoal (charred). It is best cooked food.
• Be careful with the use of artificial sweeteners, food colorings and preservatives excessive. The best food is fresh food.
• Food kept clean, diverse, and free of substances of environmental contamination.
• It is suggested that excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and smoking are also
• physical activity by exercising regularly accompanied by mental and spiritual health is an integral part in the prevention of cancer.
Acai Berry – A Super Food or Is it Really?
Acai berry is known to be the latest super food discovery that has taken the health and fitness industry by storm. Not only is this fruit great for weight loss, it has various benefits that can help in maintaining a good healthy body with minimal pain or effort.
Ever since the discovery of the properties and characteristics of acai berry, there are various manifestations of this berry that have become available and one of the best and most potent options is the acai berry juice. The benefits of acai berry juice are many.
How Acai Fights Cancer
The high concentration of antioxidants in acai berry juice helps in fighting the free radicals that can cause cancer. Omega 3 and omega 6, essential fatty acids are also effective in increasing the capacity of the body to keep cancerous growths under control.
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Chemical Exposure Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer
Exposure to chemicals and pollutants in the workplace before the 30-year-old person will increase your risk for breast cancer after the age of menopause.
Some researchers found a link between breast cancer and a number of hazardous chemicals. They conduct investigations to find out how big the exposure of the respondents against 30 types of hazardous materials in their work environment. The result, those affected by breast cancer at the age of menopause is more often exposed to hazardous chemicals before the age of 36 years.
Thus the conclusion of a study of 556 women aged 50-75 diagnosed with breast cancer in women and 613-free control group of breast cancer. All respondents had the menopause.
Hazardous chemicals which are intended, among others, acrylic fibers, nylon fibers, and aromatic compounds. These materials are commonly used in the womb wall paint, furniture, and so forth.
The results express the breast tissue is more sensitive to chemicals hazardous if exposed when cells in the breast is still active (before age 40 years).
Bananas and Carrots Prevent Kidney Cancer
Fond of banana and tuber vegetables, like carrots and beets, reduce the risk of kidney cancer. The conclusion is derived from a vegetable-rich diet studies that involved 61,000 Swedish women aged 40 to 76 years continue to be monitored diet for 13 years.
At the beginning of the study, diet was recorded women. They were asked to report what is eaten during the previous six months. Over 13 years later, found the appearance of renal cell carcinoma, the general form of kidney cancer, in 122 women.
From further assessment concluded, fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with a lower high risk of kidney cancer. Women who bananas four to six times a week had half the risk of lower kidney cancer than those who did not eat at all. Consumption of vegetables and tubers such as carrots regular bits can also reduce the risk by 50 to 65 percent.
According to study leader, every year there are at least 190,000 kidney cancer cases diagnosed worldwide. Causes ranging from smoking, hypertension, obesity, until the chemical contamination. Yet this new research is trying to link between kidney cancer and diet.
In the study emphasized, the more important in the diet are fruits and certain vegetables rather than whole vegetables and fruits are eaten. Bananas, contains special antioxidants called phenolics. Similarly, white cabbage contains isothiocyanates, compounds that according to research in the laboratory could destroy the tumor formation.
Papaya Sap Overcome Cancer
Every part of the papaya plants have benefits. In fact, papaya sap contained in all parts of plants, ranging from fruits, leaves, stems, until the roots, is anti-tumor and cancer. This is because more than 50 amino acids contained in it.
Papaya fruit has a high fiber content. That is why when experiencing difficult defecation, papaya is a fruit fit for consumption. Of course, efficacy papaya fruit not only in the course.
Ingredients Papaya
Fruit, leaves, and roots of papaya are useful to prevent renal impairment, bladder pain, high blood pressure, and menstrual disorders. While useful papaya seeds to treat roundworms, indigestion, colds, and diarrhea.
From several studies described, stems and leaves of papaya plants contain many milky white sap (latex Milky white) are likely to be developed as anti-cancer. Benefits of the papaya latex for scientifically proven health, which states papayas are anti tumor or cancer.
The role was made possible by the content carpain compounds, alkaloids lactonat ringed with seven groups metilen chain. With that configuration, not only the tumor and cure skin diseases, was also potent carpain hinder the performance of some microorganisms disturb the digestive function, so effective to suppress the cause of typhoid fever.
More than 50 amino acids contained in papaya latex, such as aspartic acid, threonine, serine, glutamic acid, proline, glycine, alanine, Valine, isoleucine, leucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, histidine, lysin, arginine, tritophan, and cysteine. They were united into the cosmetic industry raw materials to refine the skin, to strengthen the network more resilient, and keep the teeth from plaque deposits.
During this papaya sap contained in the leaves are more used to make a tender meat with raw meat a way to wrap the leaves for several hours in room temperature. In addition, papaya leaves can be rubbed directly on the surface, rub the meat. Rubbing leaves on the meat is intended to remove the sap (latex) contained in the leaves that out, then go in the flesh.
Packaging forms
In some areas, the meat is cooked directly with leaves and raw papaya fruit to get the meat tender and easily digested. Currently, the sap contained in the leaves and raw papaya is extracted to be used as an ingredient in a mixture of commercial meat tenderizer. Resin powder as a meat tenderizer papaya sold in packaged form in the super market or store chemicals.
The use of sap can be a direct injection in cattle and a half hours before slaughter so the meat more tender. The enzyme papaya to hydrolyze collagen in meat, so the shape becomes loose and will be more tender meat. The enzyme papaya is the overhaul of protein (collagen) into several parts.
Papaya including the fast-growing plants and bear much fruit. In the tropics, the first fertilization can take place less than one year and then bear fruit throughout the year. The amount of fruit can reach 50-150 per tree per year.
If you’ve been a fan of fruit, including papaya, no doubt agree that the benefits and nutritional value for health is enormous. Not only has the high fiber, papaya also contain various types of enzymes, vitamins, and minerals. In fact, vitamin A content was more than carrots, and vitamin C was higher than oranges. Also rich with vitamin B complex and vitamin E.
Remarkably again, the content of the enzyme papaya in papaya fruit serves to accelerate the process of protein digestion. Protein content in papaya fruits are not too high, only 4-6 grams per kilogram weight of fruit, but almost all can be digested and absorbed by the body. This caused the enzyme papaya in papaya substances capable of digesting 35 times larger than its own.
During the harvesting season Idol
Because of easy to maintain and not knowing the season, papaya prices are much cheaper compared to other fruits. Although it’s cheap, it contains the benefits are enormous. In fact, every part of the plant, started from seeds, fruit, leaves, until the sap, can be used for a variety of complaints. No wonder, papaya fruit can be called an idol throughout the season.
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Papaya Leaf, New Weapon against Cancer
Behind the bitter taste, papaya leaf was kept benefits as cancer-fighting substances. By experts, papaya leaf excellence in combating various types of tumors in the body is called a “very
impressive”.
A researcher who published his findings on the benefits of papaya leaf extract to fight cervical cancer, breast, liver, lung, and pancreatic. The researchers used the papaya leaf extract was dried and used as papaya leaf tea.
In research conducted known Dang, papaya leaf extract will produce molecules called TH1 type of cytokines that help improve the body’s immune system. This will support the therapeutic use of the immune system to fight cancer.
Experts say, papaya extract has no toxic effect on normal cells and thus more secure than cancer therapy in general. In his research, 10 types of cancer cell culture displayed with papaya leaf extract and then observed for 24 hours. Proved, papayas slow the growth of tumor cells in all types of cancer.
Besides consumed as fruit, papaya is also used as traditional medicine, especially by the Aborigines in Australia, the population of Vietnam, and several other Asian countries.
Beware of Breast Cancer!
In matters of health, prevention is one of the main tools you have. So, I invite all women who read this post to be very aware of your breasts.
Breast cancer is, like many other diseases, multi-factorial. Its causes range from genetic (the presence of the genes BRCA 1 and BRCA 2), be overweight, age, alcohol consumption and birth control pills, among others. Read the rest of this entry »
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Smoking Can Cause Cancer
An analysis of 11 studies suggests that if one parent smoked before conception, increases the risk of the baby’s child suffering from leukemia.
Smoking snuff can cause cancer of the colon, rectum and ovary according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
“New studies provide sufficient evidence to add the colon, rectum and ovary to the already long list of cancers caused by snuff”, the agency said in a report that corroborates and expands the most common causes of cancers.
He added that snuff could be one of the causes of breast cancer.
On the other hand, four recent studies corroborate that if one parent smoked before conception and during pregnancy the baby, there is “a significantly higher risk that the child suffers hepatoblastoma, a rare cancer that is believed to be of fetal origin .
Furthermore, an analysis of 11 studies suggested that the fact that one parent smoked before the conception of the baby may increase the risk of childhood leukemia suffering child.
In relation to smokeless snuff, the agency noted that “we already know that this product causes oral cancer and pancreatic cancer, but there is now sufficient evidence that it also causes cancer of the esophagus.”
However, he recalled that hundreds of thousands of people are consumers of smokeless snuff, especially in India, Southeast Asia, Sweden and the United States.
In the case of passive smoking, the IACR stated that there is new evidence linking smoke snuff with laryngeal cancer.
Although the consumption of snuff is the leading cause of cancer worldwide, the agency regretted that at present there are over one billion smokers around the world.
Another substance that is known to cause cancer is the betel mouth, which is commonly chewed in India and Southeast Asia.
However, the IARC said that there is sufficient evidence linking the consumption of this product with esophageal cancer and there are indications that could lead to liver cancer.
With regard to food, the agency noted that “salted fish from Chinese cuisine cause nasopharyngeal cancer and may also cause stomach cancer.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer noted that the composition of betel and snuff are highly addictive and lamented that “marketing and certain social factors influence young people to begin this addiction.”
“The choice to begin to consume these substances is often done in childhood and substance abuse require its continuation,” he said the IARC.
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Does the Cell Phone Cause Cancer?
In the first month’s edition of 2001 of the prestigious scientific journal New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Health in the United States on using cell phones and the risk brain tumor.
The cell phone contains a small transmitter that emits radiation near the head. This has caused great concern among the population, since it was not known whether this radiation could cause brain cancer or other organs of the central nervous system. In fact, studies are done with reference to this issue since 1994.
That study included 800 patients with this tumor from institutions in the U.S. cities of Phoenix, Boston and Pittsburgh and 800 control cases. Data collection consisted of a personalized comprehensive survey, with very specific questions about the start date of cell phone use, how long you used it, last date and level of use. There was no information about the appliance model. The completed data collected in 1998.
The researchers found no evidence that a person’s risk of developing a brain tumor increased with the number of years to minutes average daily usage of mobile phone. Neither brain tumors tended to occur more often than expected from the side of the head in that reported using the phone.
Among those most used, the average was approximately 15 minutes per day or more for at least three years. Very few people used this type of equipment frequently for more than five years.
Peter Inskip, Sc.D., who was the principal investigator, said they found no evidence that cell phone use caused brain tumors, however, clarified, whether the increased risk occurred after more than five years old or people high intensity of use, this study probably did not detect.
The research was conducted between 1994 and 1998 in which they were most commonly used analog phones. Currently dominated by digital, operating at a higher frequency. However, there is no evidence so far that the risk of cancer differs between these two types of cell.
Similar results were found in two other studies, one published in December 2000 in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Muscat et al, which included 469 cases of brain cancer and 422 controls and another study conducted in Sweden by Hardell et al which included 233 cases and 466 controls. Neither of these two investigations found no association. Only reported a relationship between the side of the head that was used to talk on the phone and location of the tumor, but this association was based on very few cases.
Today, there are also three types of wireless or mobile phones used: cell phones for cars, portable phones and cordless phones. All these involve less exposure to radiation of the brain as the unit that issues it is at some distance from the person.
If very small cell phones that are carried in the hand no higher risk of brain tumor, would be very surprising that these other types of phones do it cause as exposed to a much lower frequency radiation.
The number of mobile phone users has increased tremendously in the last 10 years and trends continue. Because of this, a lot of scientific research studying the relationship between cell phone use and brain tumor, are currently undertaking.
The largest is a multicenter international including 3000 cases and 3000 controls, coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), headquartered in Lyon, France. Still remain several years to obtain results.
Moreover, it is expected that the results of another study in Denmark that includes 550,000 mobile phone users from 1982 to 1995, to be published. Currently in the U.S. and UK, are providing funds and efforts to continue the development of research on this topic.
The causes of brain cancer are unknown, therefore, scientists from the National Cancer Institute USA, evaluated a wide range of possible risk factors which include environmental, related to lifestyle and genetics. These include occupational exposure to chemicals and electromagnetic fields, dietary factors, family history of tumors, genetic factors, home use of some artifacts, reproductive history and hormonal exposures, viruses, and both medical and dental exposure to ionizing radiation.
The results of these reports will appear in future publications and due to the interest of the population, the use of cell phones will be the first.
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