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Best Diet for the Prevention of Breast Cancer
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Breast cancer: the words that strike fear into the heart of every woman. It seems as if everyone knows someone who is fighting this insidious disease. Some women accept it as an almost certain fact of life, but this is simply not the case. Did you know that many cancer research scientists believe that simply by changing our eating habits, many Americans can prevent cancer?
Although it is true that some cancers are related to race or genetics, and you can’t do anything to change those things, there are plenty of other things you can do to prevent these killers.
Our diet is perhaps the easiest thing that is completely under our control. Did you know that Japanese women have much lower rates of breast cancer when compared to American women? However, if Japanese women immigrate to the US and begin to consume a typical Western diet, that their risk of developing breast cancer is exactly the same as American women born and raised in the States? This must tell you that diet has a great deal to do with the development of cancer. When Japanese women trade their mainly fish and vegetable-based diet for Western diet of processed foods, fast food, and sugar, cancer rates increase dramatically.
The first thing you should be doing is to be certain that your diet is as close to natural as possible. This means eliminating processed foods (such as pre-packaged foods), junk foods (like potato chips), and fast foods as much as possible. You should also remove as much sugar from your diet as you possibly can. We don’t mean the natural sugar that is found in fruit, but refined, processed sugar. Cook at home from scratch, using wholesome, natural ingredients as much as you possibly can, and consume a mostly plant based diet.
Next, keep reading for a list of foods that have been researched in relation to the prevention of breast cancer and have some scientific backing to their claims.
1. Fish Oil Supplements
One study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, showed that consuming fish oil supplements over time can shrink your risk of ductal carcinoma, the most common type of breast cancer.
It’s the omega-3 fatty acids that cold water fish, like salmon, contain which reduce inflammation, one of the things believed to cause breast cancer. (And many other types of cancer) You can skip the supplements if you eat 8 ounces of cold water, fatty fish, such as tuna, sardines, and salmon, during a week.
This means that if you love fish, this is your free pass to eat plenty of it.
