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Dr. Oz Explains Which Foods Protect Against Cancer

Experts believe that one-third of all cancers can be prevented by what you eat. For decades, public health researchers around the world have been studying how certain foods lower the risk of different cancers.

Cancer—the word, itself, terrifies me. No one is untouched, unscathed or unaffected by cancer.  It’s so insidiously pervasive that it seems like everyone falls into one of 3 categories: had it, has it, or will get it.  Is it only a matter of where, when and what stage? I know that sounds so pessimistic and hopeless, doesn’t it? It seems so different from heart disease—we know that we can do so much to prevent that, if we would just stop eating crap and exercise more, right? And we can have simple, non-invasive tests to tell us if we have heart disease and then we can try to do all the right things to lower our risk! But cancer—people don’t feel that way about cancer. To a large extent, it seems that people feel fatalist about cancer—haven’t you heard numerous times, “if you’re gonna get it, you’re gonna get it.”

Are you fatalistic about cancer? Do you think it’s predetermined and inevitable and a fact of life? Or a spin of the roulette wheel? Do most people feel that their only true prevention for cancer is early detection (which isn’t really prevention) and to hope and pray, real hard?  Maybe we feel powerless about cancer because we live in a toxic environment…Maybe because we are told that it’s mostly genetic…Maybe because we all have cancer cells in our bodies and it takes years sometimes to find out that they’ve been secretly growing and plotting to take us down. 

If a doctor told you that you should eat certain foods to help protect you against cancer, would you listen? Would you say, “just tell me what to do and I’ll do it!” or would you question the veracity of the entire concept? What if teams of doctors, researchers and medical studies told you, would that be convincing? The only guarantee in life is that there are no guarantees in life. I know that and you know that, but I think that there is validity in the following information and I hope that you do, too. It’s very true that it’s complicated. Incorporating these foods into your diet, and eliminating others, in addition to following recommendations by doctors and cancer experts, is a proactive step beyond hope and prayer in protecting your body.  

Read how which foods can help protect you against which cancers: http://veganamericanprincess.com/cancer-certain-foods-can-protect-you/#sthash.sMmBab4P.dpuf

Ellen Francis
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