ArticlesEATING OUR WAY TO BETTER HEALTH: CANCER Diet is associated with up to 60 per cent of cancers in women according to the American Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. And the American National Research Council points to excess calories, especially those from fat, as the biggest cancer culprits. Eating a diet rich in vegetables, the Fountain of Youth diet, can cut yout breast cancer risk by as much as tenfold. If you lose the weight, you also reduce the risk. Lung cancer risk is five times higher in women (and men) whose diets are high in saturated fat, this from a study by the American National! Cancer Institute. Prostate cancer has been linked to a diet high in meat and potatoes a; low in antioxidant vegetables. Skin cancer research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found people who ate a typical American diet of 38 per cent of calories from fat had ten times the recurrence rate of skin cancer as those who ate Fountain of Youth low-fat (20 per cent) diet. 10 extra pounds can increase your breast cancer risk by 23 per cent. 15 extra pounds can increase your breast cancer risk by 37 per cent. 20 extra pounds can increase your breast cancer risk by 52 per cent. *28\323\8* |
