Broccoli sprouts, cabbage, ginkgo biloba and garlic: A grocery list for cancer prevention

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Experts offer vegetable “grocery list” for cancer prevention

Oct. 31, 2005
Courtesy American Association for Cancer Research
and World Science staff

In the high-tech 21st century, the most basic natural products continue to reveal exciting ant-cancer properties to scientists, experts say, offering people relatively simple ways to help protect themselves from the disease.

Courtesy 5aday.gov

Researchers offered advice on those products in five studies presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research’s fourth annual “Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research” meeting in Baltimore, Md.

The findings add to an arsenal of research that shows adding certain vegetables and herbs to the diet can prevent or, in some cases, halt the growth of cancer.

Some of the anti-cancer properties of vegetables have been tied to their so-called mechanical, or textural properties, as in the case of fiber.

But this research goes further, dealing with the chemical interactions between compounds found in foods and the body’s cells and DNA. It shows that the addition of these foods to the diet can reap benefits at any stage of life, the researchers said.

The five studies, covering broccoli sprouts, cabbage, ginkgo biloba and garlic, are summarized in this report made public by the association today.

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