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Vitamins to fight cancer

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases. While medical treatments developed more each day to face, yet there are no methods to get rid of it completely. Against this background, we need to heed the adage that prevention is better than cure.

How can we prevent cancer? It is proven that a healthy life is a very effective weapon to combat almost all diseases, including cancer. One of the requirements for a healthy life is to follow a good diet to ensure all the nutrients we need.

Among them are vitamins that help you prevent cancer . Too bad you will not find out what a healthy diet and make sure to protect you from this disease. (more…)

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Vitamins and Minerals Against Cancer (IV)

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

vitamins and minerals against cancerZinc is an essential trace element, as involved in the metabolism of proteins and nucleic acids. Participate in the stimulation of a hundred enzymes and helps the immune system, among its many functions.

Its participation in metabolism is what gives its protective properties to be part of the antioxidant defense available to the body. It is found in animal foods such as red meat, poultry, fish and seafood, and vegetable sources such as nuts, legumes and cereals.

Copper is associated with immune system activity in addition to sharing antioxidant properties. Activity has been described in adequate doses and protective cancerous processes. Copper-rich foods are vegetables, legumes, cereals, fruits, nuts, chocolate, plus meats and fish. (more…)

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Vitamins and Minerals Against Cancer (III)

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

vitamins and minerals against cancerMineral prevents cancerous processes?

Preventive and therapeutic properties of vitamins are known by the population, but not so with the minerals, their properties, as well as the source for the codes.

The minerals that we consume in the diet, also known as trace elements, are needed in the body in very small amounts and are essential to maintain health. Have not been determined although its functions in the body, but have been described dysfunctions or diseases that can lead to lack.

This is true in the case of selenium, zinc, copper and magnesium to prevent cancer. The vast majority of foods contain all the micronutrients necessary and sufficient. (more…)

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Vitamins and Minerals Against Cancer (II)

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

vitamins and minerals against cancerVitamins as a Shield Anticancer

Unlike carbohydrates, fats and proteins, vitamins are not an energy source, but serve as chemical models for enzymes related to metabolic function, cell production, tissue repair and other vital processes.

Vitamin C, and precursor of vitamin A as beta-carotene, are antioxidants, so they are considered as protectors of the oxidation of cells, and thus of degenerative diseases such as cancer.

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid has been widely documented. Today is known as stress vitamin because of its association with all processes related to metabolic stress. As an antioxidant shield your needs are greater than the rest of the vitamins, which in just a few milligrams fulfill these functions. (more…)

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Vitamins and Minerals Against Cancer (I)

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

vitamins and minerals against cancerEvery day more than is manifested not so much over time as metabolism the cause of aging and its allied diseases.

Science has documented that the oxygen of the air we live causes us the tribute of an oxidative stress that impairs the cell tissues. The panacea, a result of numerous studies, is directed toward the vitamins, as compounds with more antioxidant activity.

Throughout life, millions of free radicals our cells are bombarded daily. The fact that they need many years to get to cause injury or illness is due to enzymes and other compounds that produce our own body fight relentlessly in order to be able to neutralize them. The action of free radicals linked to cancer, but the protection against free radicals is allied to vitamins for its antioxidant effect. (more…)

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Benefits of Pomegranates for Cancer Treatment

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Research is ensuring that pomegranate juice may help fight prostate cancer. The results of this work shows that men who drank the beverage had delayed the doubling of PSA levels (a protein that indicates the presence of prostate cancer) in the blood.

Although consumption quantities should be in 0.24 liters of pomegranate juice a day, the doubling time of PSA after treatment extended to 54 months on average.

Before, the average PSA doubling every 15 months. Each of the 50 participants had undergone radiation, surgery or other treatments to fight cancer before enrolling in the study.

It is premature to recommend the consumption of pomegranate juice on prostate cancer patients to say they could be cured only with this, if the study shows that could delay or prevent the need for other therapies with harsh side effects including hot flashes, phatic , depression and impotenia.
also has antioxidant qualities of being natural product which contains up to three times more than green tea and red wine. (more…)

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Power Supply and Physical Activity

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Power supply and physical activity

Foods to avoid we should mention the coffee, sugar, artificial sweeteners and sodas, all substances that acidify the blood and stimulate the loss of calcium.

It is important to ensure a good uptake of calcium and this is not achieved so obsessed with drinking milk, but promoting an alkalinization of blood and ensuring nutrient intake aids such as boron, magnesium, silicon, and, of course, the calcium in reasonable quantities.

Keep in mind that today we are the generation of all human history that has more exposure to calcium intake, only to see the amount of food an additive and the consistency with which doctors crushed to make us a lot of milk, yet weak bones suffer more than ever. Do not you think that there is an equation that is failing? (more…)

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Rich Nutritional Benefits for the Body’s Inflammatory

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

A diet rich in antioxidant nutrients exerts anti-inflammatory power that achieves slow the development of diabetes, obesity and cancer, said today the president of the Spanish Federation of Societies of Nutrition, Food and Dietetics (fesnad), Alfredo Martinez.

Martinez explained that this is the conclusion of a major study presented at the Second Congress of the fesnad held up today in Barcelona, and stressed that this statement Underlying medical thinking, but has now been found.

“Some foods have a higher level of antioxidants that prevent inflammation,” noting that this, in turn, “acts as the trigger diseases such as diabetes, obesity and dyslipidemia,” remarked the professor of nutrition at the University Navarre.

The researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Medicine, Boston, biochemist Barry Sears, a medical doctor at the conference explained the important role of inflammatory Zone Diet, which proposes the proportion of 40% carbohydrate , 30% protein and 30% fat with extra intake of Omega 3. (more…)

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Nutrition and Cancer

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

nutrition and cancer

Set random nutritional requirements of a cancer patient is an impossible task, since each patient by age, sex, type of cancer and medical history is a particular case. But we can talk about the advice in nutrition, as general guidelines that should always be confirmed with the oncologist.

Cancer treatment and the disease itself produce states of malnutrition in the patient, which directly affects their quality of life.

Consider the general nutrition advice for cancer:

  • Fats: As cancer patients often experience fat loss and muscle mass, it is recommended that the daily calorie intake is at least 25% of everything consumed.
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