Vitamin C Helps You to Fight Cancer
It is time to rewrite our nutrition textbooks. The textbooks of yesterday tell us that vitamin C prevents scurvy. They talk of the vitamin’s role in healing wounds. They explain that vitamin C aids in the formation of collagen, which holds cells together.
But an update is in order. It is not that vitamin C does not do these things. Rather, it does more – much more.
It may very well help to prevent cancer, says the Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer (of the U.S.). The panel members were impressed enough with studies of vitamin C and Cancer to advise us to eat foods rich in vitamin C every day.
Scientists have found that cancers of the stomach and esophagus are less common among people who eat diets rich in vitamin C. In fact, year-round access to foods rich in vitamin C may be one explanation for the dramatic fall in stomach cancer rates in the case of the United States.
Stomach cancer was common in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, when some fruits and vegetables were available only seasonally. We now have year round access to these fruits and vegetables, and many are rich in vitamin C. And stomach cancer is no longer common. It does remain a major health problem in some parts of the world.
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Categories: Cancer Tags: antioxidants, bladder cancer, Cancer, colom cancer, esophageal cancer, nitrites, nitrosamines, oxidation, stomach cancer, vitamin C
The Right Vitamin A to Prevent Cancer
Vitamin A vs. Cancer
From all over the world have come the most exciting findings ever reported about vitamin A. More than a dozen studies have linked diets rich in vitamin A to a surprising amount of protection against some forms of cancer.
In Chicago, scientists found only two cases of lung cancer among 500 men, including some smokers, who eat many fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin A. That was only one-seventh as many lung cancer cases as were found in 500 men who ate few of these foods.
And in Norway, the findings were no different. Men who ate many vegetables rich in vitamin A had only one-third as much lung cancer as those eating little of these foods.
In Japan, the story was the same. Researches found 30 percent fewer cases of lung cancer among people who ate vegetables rich in vitamin A every day. The daily vegetable eaters also had lower rates of stomach cancer.
Categories: Cancer Tags: beta-carotene, bladder cancer, cabbage, Cancer, carotene, carotenoids, esophageal cancer, lung cancer, retinoids, retinol, stomach cancer, vitamin A, vitamin A palmitate
