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Five Ways to Lower Your Prostate Cancer Risk by 59%

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You’ve heard about cruciferous vegetables before — how they’re good for you and can bolster your immune system. But how about some really impressive health news on the cruciferous veggie front? Researchers at the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston and the Department of Urology at the University of California in San Francisco, just recently reported that adding these powerhouse vegetables to a weekly diet could reduce the risk for prostate cancer by as much as 59%.

For their study, the combined research team acknowledged that cruciferous vegetables, tomato sauce, and legumes have been associated with reduced risk of prostate cancer. However, many of these studies have been done in vitro or with animals and not on men already diagnosed with prostate cancer. The researchers therefore devised a clinical trial to examine whether intake of total vegetables, and specifically cruciferous vegetables, tomato sauce, and legumes, could reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression.

A total of 1,560 men diagnosed with non-metastatic prostate cancer were enrolled in the study. All participated in the Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor, a United States prostate cancer registry. As a secondary analysis, the researchers also looked at other vegetable sub-groups, total fruit, and sub-groups of fruits. The participants were diagnosed primarily at community-based clinics and followed from 2004 to 2009. Vegetable and fruit intake was assessed via a food frequency questionnaire. Prostate cancer outcomes were assessed via urologist reports and medical records.

The researchers recorded 134 cases of prostate progression, 53 recurrences, 71 secondary treatments likely due to recurrence, six bone metastases, and four prostate cancer deaths. They determined that men with the highest intakes of cruciferous vegetables post-prostate cancer diagnosis, had a statistically significant 59% decreased risk of prostate cancer progression compared to men in the lowest quartile. The researchers stated that no other vegetable or fruit group was significantly associated with risk of prostate cancer progression. They concluded that cruciferous vegetable intake after diagnosis may reduce risk of prostate cancer progression.

Want to add some cruciferous vegetables to your diet? Not sure which ones to eat? Try the following to get a healthy dose of cancer-prevention: broccoli; cabbage; collard greens; cauliflower; and kale.

Tags: cancer causes, cancer cure, cancer prevention, cancer risk, how to check prostate, prostate cancer

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Two Things You Must Eat to Lower Cholesterol

In the second-to-last article in my series on high cholesterol, I want to inform you of two more natural supplements that may aid in the battle. One is fish oil, which is linked to an extraordinary array of health benefits, this being yet another one. The other is the lesser-known herbal remedy artichoke. Both are foods, both are supplements. Let’s take stock of the evidence.

Fish Oil
For healthy individuals, the American Heart Association recommends eating fatty fish twice a week. For those with coronary artery disease, one gram of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) per day is recommended. (Both EPA and DHA are strong omega-3s.) Other than fish, walnuts, canola oil and flaxseed are good dietary sources of omega-3 fatty acids.

Omega-3 fatty acids are especially effective in lowering high triglycerides levels. In a recent meta-analysis of 47 human studies, the authors arrived at the conclusion that an average dose of omega-3 of 3.25 gram a day (1.9 gram EPA and 1.35 gram DHA daily) significantly lowered triglycerides (average: 20%) without significant changes in LDL, HDL or total cholesterol.

Even taking a small dose of omega 3 fatty acids (0.85 gram EPA + DHA a day) significantly reduced the risk of all-cause mortality, cardiac death, and sudden death by 21%, 35%, and 45%, respectively. The FDA-approved drug “Lovaza” has much higher concentration of EPA/DHA than over-the-counter fish oil. Each one-gram capsule has 375 mg of DHA and 465 mg of EPA. This drug is recommended for individuals with very high serum triglycerides (over 500 mg/dL), in a treatment of two to four grams daily. But this drug helps to show how powerful fish oil is.

Artichoke
In a meta-analysis of three human studies, there is early evidence that artichoke may be effective in lowering high cholesterol levels. It found that artichoke led to a reduction of total cholesterol levels by 4.3% after 12 weeks. Compared to placebo’s 8.8%, artichoke reduced total cholesterol by 18.5% at the study’s end. Artichoke significantly reduced total cholesterol in those with the highest levels of cholesterol.

We recently talked about artichokes and how they maintain their health benefits, even after cooking in the article, The Best Cooked Vegetable for Your Health.

Both are definite possibilities for those looking for a natural answer to high cholesterol.

Tags: Cholesterol, healthy vegetables, herbal cures, herbal remedies

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Use This to Lower Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer

An important new study has come out saying that eating a diet high in fiber could protect you from colorectal cancer. Published in the prestigious “BMJ,” it identified fiber from cereal and whole grains as being most important. You want to know how to prevent cancer? This is one solid answer.

We’ve long known that fiber-rich foods are healing foods. Eating fiber and whole grains helps protect against heart disease. But its association with colorectal cancer risk is less clear, though studies have been addressing it for 40 years.

The new results help clarify the picture. Increasing fiber intake, particularly cereal fiber and whole grains, helps prevent colorectal cancer. Whole-grain foods include whole-grain breads and cereals, oatmeal, brown rice, and porridge.

The third most common cancer, colorectal cancer strikes 1.2 million people each year. The new study is part of a project by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Researchers analyzed 25 studies involving nearly two million participants. Though the overall reductions in cancer risk were small, it clearly showed that dietary fiber had a protective effect. For every 10 grams of dietary fiber per day, there was a 10% reduced risk of colorectal cancer. If you add three servings (90 grams/day) of whole grains, you get a 20% reduced risk.

Strangely, there was no great evidence showing a link between fruit or vegetable fiber and risk of colorectal cancer. So for colon cancer, it appears that cereal fiber and whole grain fiber are key.

What’s more: boosting your intake of fiber may drop your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, being overweight, obesity, and even death by any cause. Replacing any refined grains with whole grains in your diet can go a long way toward optimal health.

This adds more weight to the notion that whole grains carry big-time health benefits. Science is still trying to figure out what actual mechanisms are responsible for this. But there is no doubt that whole grains are powerfully healthy healing foods.

Fiber has many other great health benefits. Read the article More Evidence That Fiber Protects Your Heart.

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Steps Women Can Take To Lower Breast Cancer Risk, Report

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Main Category: Breast Cancer
Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology
Article Date: 08 Dec 2011 - 8:00 PST

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A new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released on Wednesday concludes there are some evidence-based steps women can take to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer associated with environmental factors. These include avoiding unnecessary medical radiation (such as unessential X-rays and CT-scans), not smoking, avoiding use of estrogen-progestin menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) if possible, limiting alcohol intake, keeping to a healthy weight (especially after the menopause), and exercising regularly.

The report, which was released at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, and is also available to view online, points out that these are preventive steps that focus on those environmental risk factors (including lifestyle choices) where there is consistent scientific evidence of a link with breast cancer.

It also suggests there is evidence, although this is less clear, of a link between breast cancer and exposure to certain chemicals, such as those found in some workplace settings, gasoline fumes, vehicle exhaust, and tobacco smoke. These include benzene, 1,3-butadiene, and ethylene oxide.

The IOM says there are other areas where evidence is "provocative" and inconclusive, but sufficient to warrant "priority attention" such as overnight shift work and other ways that disrupt the sleep cycle; chemicals that mutate genes or alter their expression, or affect hormones such as estrogen; plus interactions between genetic and environmental factors.

Contrary to some popularly held beliefs, avoiding personal use of hair dyes, and non-ionizing radiation emitted by technological devices like mobile phones, will not affect a woman's risk of breast cancer, says the IOM report, as several studies now have shown no link between these factors and the disease.

Overall, the report find there have been some major advances in our understanding of breast cancer and the things that raise the risk of developing it, but we need to do more research to find out exactly what causes the disease and how to prevent it.

Over the course of a lifetime, many changes happen to a woman's body, including her breasts. New information suggests women and girls may be susceptible to different risk factors at different life stages, so the IOM recommends that future research takes a "life-course approach" to studying the effects of exposure throughout the lifespan, including at specific stages of breast development. It needs to look at cumulative exposure as well as multiple exposure over the lifespan.

Too much of our knowledge is based on studies that focus on the few years before diagnosis, but more recent research suggests we also need to look at exposure that happens much earlier in life, even in childhood, as well as key stages in physiological development and change, such as adolescence, pregnancy, and menopause.

The report uses the term "environment" in a broad sense, and reviews evidence on a range of factors that women encounter in their day to day lives. These factors include: ionizing radiation, combination estrogen-progestin hormone therapy, body weight after the menopause, and physical exercise. But for many other factors, the evidence from human studies is either limited, contradictory, or absent, says the report.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization that describes itself as the "largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists", commissioned the IOM report.

The brief was to review the current evidence on breast cancer and the environment, including gene-environment interactions, look at the research challenges, explore any actions that women might take to reduce their risk where there is good evidence to support this, and recommend directions for future research.

Since its inception in 1982, the organization has invested more than $1.9 billion in non-profit funds to fight breast cancer around the world.

Their President, Elizabeth Thompson, said in a statement that:

"Understanding the role that environmental factors play in the development of breast cancer is hugely complex and the IOM has done a good job laying out the challenges. We intend to use these findings to guide our decisions about research to fund, so that women and their families have the best science to guide them in making important lifestyle choices. We believe our efforts going forward will be made even more effective through the guidance provided by this study."

Thompson drew attention to the fact the IOM stressed more research is needed before we can get a clear picture of which substances can definitely be tied to breast cancer. She said the organization is now:

"... issuing a challenge to other agencies working in the environmental area to join with Susan G. Komen to create a fund to begin work on these very important initiatives."

Estimates suggest more than 230,000 American women will receive a diagnosis for breast cancer in 2011.

Written by Catharine Paddock PhD
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posted by Da on 8 Dec 2011 at 12:51 pm

Every now and then, reports came out saying women can control their chances of having BC, weigh management, alcohol, life style. I'm sick and angry at these reports. It camouflage the truth, that those of us who have BC do not know why. I'm slim, Asian, never drink, never smoke, never do drug of any kinds, eat organic healthy diet, exercise and out of the blue I got BC. These articles gave permission to others to view my cause of BC as not taking care of myself, that I AM CAUSING my BC. Bull^@%#%S%

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posted by Jeanne Bedwell on 8 Dec 2011 at 3:04 pm

These researchers need to speak plainly: formaldehyde, petroleum distillates, alcohol, ethanol limonene, naphthalene, phenal, pinene, benzyl alcohol, campher, dichlorobenzene, and other harmful chemicals are found in scented candles, air-fresheners, lotions, shampoos, soaps, other hair and body products, and cosmetics. These products are marketed to the public as "nice," "clean," "fresh," "healthy" and so on----but they are really evil products that cause migraines, allergies, asthma, cancer, and other ailments.

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