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Watercress can Combat Cancer

Friday, August 27th, 2010

watercress can combat cancer

If you’re a regular reader of our blog and you are aware of investigations being carried out with anti-cancer foods and plants, you know that it is common that each week is found that a compound x in certain plant can prevent or fight cancer. Just talk about it today, because a team of British researchers has found that watercress may fight cancer.

This is an investigation that was conducted by Professor Graham Packham of Cancer Research UK Centre of the University of Southampton, has published research in the British Journal of Nutrition in highlighting the properties of watercress for cancer.

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Foods that Prevent Breast Cancer

Monday, July 26th, 2010

foods that prevent breast cancer

Breast cancer is undoubtedly one of the most common cancers, is associated primarily with women, but may also occur in men.

The news of this disease do not stop, the progress on cure and prevention does not stop generating news. In this case, some research suggests that there are some foods that may decrease the risk of breast cancer, these are:

  • Yellow-orange vegetables: are those with beta-carotene.
  • Cruciferous vegetables: radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, cabbage, turnips and turnip greens. All these show indole-3-carbinol, which in women decreases the levels of a type of estrogen that is what could potentially cancer. (more…)
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