Six Foods That Fight Cancer

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

As researchers continue to wage war against cancer, many have begun to focus on what could be the most promising ammunition to date: diet.
“The easiest, least-expensive way to reduce your risk for cancer is just by eating a healthy diet,” says Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, PhD, MPH, RD, a researcher at the National Cancer Institute.

When it comes to a diet rich in cancer-fighting substances, most experts agree that it should consist of a predominantly plant-based diet. “If you have two-thirds of plant food on your plate, that seems to be enough to avoid excessive amounts of food high in saturated fat,” says Karen Collins, RD, nutritional advisor for the American Institute for Cancer Research.

That seemingly simple advice could mean a drastic change in diet for many people.
“People who are thinking that this is like a diet, and are trying to choke this stuff down, it’s never going to last,” Collins tells WebMD. “You’re

looking at creating something for a lifetime. If it takes you awhile, but each month or so you enjoy [one more vegetable], then that’s great,” Collins.
You may want to start with some of the following food substances, all of which show promise as cancer-fighting agents.
Cancer Prevention: What Really Works?

1. Folate-Rich Foods
This B-complex vitamin can be found in many ‘good for you’ foods. Plus, manufacturers of cereals, pastas, and breads often fortify their products with folate.

How It Works: “The thought is that when someone has low levels of folate, it’s more likely for mutations in DNA to occur,” Stolzenberg-Solomon says. Conversely, adequate levels of folate protect against such mutations.

Cancer-Fighting Abilities: In a large-scale study, researchers evaluated the effects of folate on more than 27,000 male smokers between ages 50 and 69. Men who consumed at least the recommended daily allowance of folate -- about 400 micrograms -- cut by half their risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

How to Get It: Starting with breakfast, a glass of orange juice is high in folate; so are most cereals (check the box to see how much). For lunch, try a hearty salad with either spinach or romaine leaves. Top it with dried beans or peas for an extra boost.
Snack on a handful of peanuts or an orange. At dinner, choose asparagus or Brussels sprouts as your vegetable.

Low-Fat Diet May Not Cut Cancer Risk

2. Vitamin D
This fat-soluble vitamin which helps absorb calcium to build strong teeth and bones may also build protection against cancer.

How It Works: Researchers suggest that vitamin D curbs the growth of cancerous cells.

Cancer-Fighting Abilities: A report presented at the latest meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) showed a link between increased vitamin D intake and reduced breast cancer risk. It found vitamin D to lower the risk of developing breast cancer by up to 50 percent.
Vitamin D may also improve survival rates among lung cancer patients, according to a Harvard study reported in 2005. Patients who received surgery for lung cancer in the summer, when vitamin D exposure from sunshine is greatest, and had the highest intake of vitamin D, reported a 56 percent five-year survival rate. Patients with low vitamin D intakes and winter surgeries had only a 23 percent survival rate.

How to Get It: In light of these recent findings, many researchers consider the current RDA of 400 international units (IU) too low. William G. Nelson, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., suggests that the RDA recommendations for vitamin D be increased to 1,000 IU for both men and women.
“Higher amounts may eventually prove better, but for now that amount is likely to be safe and have a protective effect,” he tells WebMD.
While vitamin D is often associated with milk, high concentrations also can be found in these seafood choices: cod, shrimp, and Chinook salmon. Eggs are another good source. And don’t forget sunshine. In just 10 minutes, you can soak up as much as 5,000 IU of vitamin D if you expose 40 percent of your body to the sun, without sunscreen.

3. Tea
If you enjoy sipping tea, you’ll be happy to know that it appears promising against some forms of cancer.

How It Works: Like many plant-based foods, tea contains flavonoids, known for their antioxidant effects. One flavonoid in particular, kaempferol, has shown protective effects against cancer.

Cancer-Fighting Abilities: A large-scale study evaluating kaempferol intake of more than 66,000 women showed that those who consumed the most of it had the lowest risk of developing ovarian cancer. Researcher Margaret Gates, a doctoral candidate at Harvard’s School of Public Health, suggests that consuming between 10 milligrams and 12 milligrams daily of kaempferol -- the amount found in four cups of tea --offers protection against ovarian cancer.
A separate study showed a link between consuming flavonoids and reducing the risk of breast cancer. The study, analyzing the lifestyle habits of nearly 3,000 people, showed that postmenopausal women who got the most flavonoids were 46 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who got the least. However, flavonoid consumption had no effect on breast cancer risk among premenopausal women.

How to Get It: Hot tea can be warming in the winter; ice tea offers cool refreshment in the summer. So enjoy tea year-round to boost cancer prevention.

4. Cruciferous Vegetables
They may not have been your favorite as a kid, but cruciferous vegetables -- members of the cabbage family that include kale, turnip greens, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts -- can help you ward off cancer.

How They Work: In lab experiments, substances released during either cutting or chewing cruciferous vegetables produced a cancer-killing effect.

Cancer-Fighting Abilities: Recent studies on cruciferous vegetables show promising results against prostate and colon cancers. In mice grafted with human prostate tumors and then treated with one of these cancer-killing substances, tumors began to shrink to half their size after 31 days.
In another experiment, mice engineered to be a model for an inherited colon polyp condition that is at high risk for developing into colon cancer were fed the antioxidant called sulforaphane, also released when chewing cruciferous vegetables. The mice developed about half as many polyps as expected.

How to Get Them: Swallowing them whole won’t do. The protective effect of cruciferous vegetables seems to occur when they are cut or chewed. They’re great in stir fry, as side dishes, or tossed into salads raw. Experiment with flavors like lemon or garlic.
“Vegetables can be a fabulous-tasting centerpiece of cuisine,” says Collins.

How to Keep Your Veggies Vitamin-Packed

5. Curcumin
By sprinkling curcumin into your favorite dishes, you could be adding much more than a little zest to your meal -- you could add years to your life.

How It Works: Experts credit curcumin’s anti-inflammatory effects for its ability to fight cancer.
“Most diseases are caused by chronic inflammation that persists over long periods of time,” says Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD, a biochemist at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Recent studies have shown curcumin to interfere with cell-signaling pathways, thereby suppressing the transformation, proliferation, and invasion of cancerous cells.

Cancer-Fighting Abilities: Curcumin’s protective effects may extend to bladder and gastrointestinal cancers. Some say they don’t stop with these types of cancer.
“Among all the cancers we and others have examined, no cancer yet has been found which is not affected by curcumin. This is expected, as inflammation is the mediator for most cancer,” Aggarwal tells WebMD.

How to Get It: Curcumin flavors lots of popular Indian dishes, as it is the main ingredient in curry powder. It complements rice, chicken, vegetable, and lentils. Some chefs sprinkle the bright, yellow powder into recipes for a burst of color.

6. Ginger: This popular spice, long used to quell nausea, may soon be used to fight cancer, too.

How It Works: Working directly on cancer cells, researchers discovered ginger’s ability to kill cancer cells in two ways.
In apoptosis, the cancer cells essentially commit suicide without harming surrounding cells. In autophagy, “the cells are tricked into digesting themselves,” explains J. Rebecca Liu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who has been studying ginger’s effects on ovarian cancer cells. While this preliminary evidence shows promise, ginger’s cancer-fighting effects must still be proven in animal and human trials.

Cancer-Fighting Abilities: Armed with ginger, ongoing research is taking aim against the most lethal of gynecological cancers: ovarian cancer.
“Most women [with ovarian cancer] develop resistance to conventional chemotherapy drugs,” Liu tells WebMD. Because ginger may kill cancer cells in more than one way, researchers are hopeful that patients would not develop resistance to it.
Because ginger’s effects on cancer haven’t been tested directly on human subjects, researchers can’t yet offer specific dietary recommendations.
“We don’t know how it’s metabolized,” Liu says. But that needn’t stop people from adding ginger to their diet. “We know it’s relatively nontoxic,” Liu tells WebMD.

How to Get It: Go beyond the obvious choices, like sipping ginger ale and eating gingerbread cookies. Countless soups, sumptuous marinades, and zesty sauces call for ginger.Six Foods That Fight Cancer | Fox News

 

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kiswahili please!

 

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Imekaa poa

 

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[anjnr]

niliona article moja wanasema ndizi mbivu zile zenye vidoti vyeusi zinasaidia sana kuzuia kansa, mwalimu mkuu mzizimkavu kuna ukweli hapo?

 

[Miaghay]

Wengine wanasema kwa mtu mwenye kansa,asile matunda yanaongeza acid tumboni mfano machungwa,papai,etc.sababu acid inasababisha uvimbe wa kansa kukua na kusambaa.
Unashauri kula parachichi,juice ya limao au ndimu,hizi tumboni hubadilika kuwa alkali ambayo inaua kansa.
Vyakula kama cabbage,bamia,bilinganya,karoti vinashauriwa,nyanya haishauriwi sana sababu ya acidi.
Sukari,chumvi havishauriwi kwa mwenye kansa.
Sodibic(sodium bicarbonate)au bakingsoda inashauri kwa sababu inabadili PH mwilini kuwa alkali ambayo haipatani na kansa.pia binzari inapigana na kansa,etc

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

niliona article moja wanasema ndizi mbivu zile zenye vidoti vyeusi zinasaidia sana kuzuia kansa, mwalimu mkuu mzizimkavu kuna ukweli hapo?

Ni kweli Ndizi inasaidia kutibu kansa ya Figo angalia hapa chini mkuu anjnr

Ni kinga dhidi ya magonjwa ya moyo, presha, vidonda vya tumbo, saratani ya figo, kukosa choo
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Ndizi mbivu ni tunda ambalo linafahamika na kila mtu, lakini sina hakika kama watu wengi wanafahamu umuhimu na faida za tunda hili ambalo linapatikana kirahisi sana nchini. Bei yake ni kati ya shilingi 50 na 150 tu, kiwango cha pesa ambacho kila mtu anaweza kukimudu.

Iwapo ulikuwa hujui umuhimu wa kula ndizi mbivu, leo utalazimika kubadili mtizamo wako na kuziangalia ndizi kama tunda muhimu katika kuupa nguvu na kuulinda mwili wako dhidi ya maradhi hatari ambayo hayana tiba. Watu wa michezo pia wanapaswa kuliona tunda hili kuwa ni muhimu sana katika kuipa miili yao nguvu.

KINGA DHIDI YA SHINIKIZO LA DAMU NA MARADHI YA MOYO
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Kwa mujibu wa utafiti wa kisayansi, ndizi ni chanzo kikubwa cha Potassium, madini ambayo ni muhimu sana katika kuweka shinikizo la damu mwilini katika hali yake ya kawaida (Normal Blood Pressure), na ufanyaji kazi mzuri wa moyo. Kwa kuwa ndizi moja ina wastani wa 467mg za madini aina ya Potasiamu na 1mg ya sodiamu (chumvi), ndizi moja tu kwa siku inaweza kukupa kinga ya maradhi ya shinikizo la damu na matatizo ya moyo.

Ukweli kuhusu vyakula vyenye kiwango kikubwa cha madini ya Potasiamu katika kushusha shinikizo la damu mwilini, umethibitishwa na tafiti nyingi za kisayansi. Kwa mujibu wa jarida moja la masuala ya afya nchini Marekani, zaidi ya Wamarekani 40,000 wa kike na kiume, walifanyiwa utafiti kwa muda wa miaka minne na ikagundulika kwamba watu wanaokula vyakula vyenye kiasi kikubwa cha madini ya Potasiamu na kirutubisho cha Fiber (Ufumwele), wako katika hatari ndogo ya kupatwa na kiharusi.

Aidha, utafiti mwingine uliofanywa na taasisi moja ya masuala ya tiba ijulikanayo kama Archives of Internal Medicine, ya nchini Marekani, pia ilithibitisha kwamba ulaji wa vyakula vyenye kiasi kikubwa cha ufumwele (fiber) kama vile ndizi, husaidia sana kutoa kinga dhidi ya maradhi ya moyo. Na katika suala hili, zaidi ya watu 10,000 walifanyiwa utafiti kwa muda wa miaka 19.

KINGA DHIDI Y VIDONDA VYA TUMBO
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Kwa muda mrefu sana imethibitishwa kwamba ndizi ina virutubisho vyenye uwezo wa kupambana na asidi tumboni hivyo kutoa kinga dhidi ya vidonda vya tumbo (stomach Ulsers) na kutoa ahueni kwa mtu ambaye tayari ameathirika. Katika utafiti mmoja, ilkibainika kwamba mtu akila mchangayiko wa ndizi mbivu na maziwa freshi, huzuia utokaji wa asidi tumboni inayosababisha vidonda vya tumbo.

Kwa mujibu wa utafiti wa kisayansi juu ya suala hili, ndizi hutoa kinga na ahueni ya vidonda vya tumbo kwa njia mbili. Mosi: virutubisho vilivyomo kwenye ndizi huzipa uhai seli zenye kazi ya kutengeneza utandu ambao hutoa aina fulani ya urojo (mucus) unaotumika kama kizuizi dhidi ya asidi tumboni.

Pili: kuna virutubisho vingine kwenye ndizi ambavyo kwa kitaalamu vinajulikana kama ‘Protease' ambavyo husaidia kuondoa bakteria tumboni ambao wanaelezewa kuwa ndiyo chanzo cha vidonda vya tumbo. Hivyo kama wewe hujaptwa na vidonda vya tumbo, kwa kula ndizi mara kwa mara unajipa kinga madhubuti na kama tayari umeathirika na vidonda, kwa kula ndizi utajipa ahueni kubwa.

NDIZI KAMA TIBA KWA WENYE MATATIZO YA CHOO
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Ndizi ni muhimu sana katika kulainisha na kusafisha tumbo na kumuwezesha mtu kupata choo. Mbali ya kusaidia upatikanaji wa choo kwa wenye matatizo hayo, lakini pia hutoa ahueni kwa wagonjwa wa kipindupindu. Mtu aliyepatwa na kipindupindu hupoteza kiasi kikubwa cha madini ya Potasiamu, hivyo kwa kula ndizi ataweza kurejesha mwilini maidni yake yaliyopotea na kuupa mwili nguvu yake.

UIMARISHAJI WA NURU YA MACHO
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Wakati ulipokuwa mdogo, bila shaka uliwahi kuambiwa na mama kuwa mtu akila karoti, atakuwa akiona vizuri. Bila shaka hakukosea, lakini sasa ukiwa mtu mzima unaambiwa kwamba ulaji wa matunda, ikiwemo ndizi, ndiyo kinga hasa dhidi ya matatizo ya kutokuona vizuri uzeeni. Utafiti wa hivi karibuni unaonesha kwamba ulaji wa matunda kwa wingi kila siku, hupunguza kwa asilimia 36 matatizo ya kutokuona vizuri kutokana na mtu kuwa na umri mkubwa.

KINGA DHIDI YA SARATANI YA FIGO
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Utafiti wa hivi karibuni uliochapishwa na Jarida la Kimataifa la masuala ya Saratani (International Journal of Cancer) la nchini Marekani, umeonesha kwamba ulaji wa mara kwa mara wa matunda halisi, hasa ndizi mbivu, ni kinga madhubuti ya mwili. Zaidi ya wawake 50,000 wenye umri kati ya miaka 40 na 76 waliofanyiwa utafiti, ulionesha kuwa wale waliokula wastani wa milo 2.5 ya matunda na mboga kila siku, walipunguza hatari ya kupatwa na saratani ya figo kwa asilimia 40.

Baadhi ya vitamini na madini yaliyomo kwenye ndizi ni pamoja na Vitamini B6, Vitamin C, Potassium, Dietary Fibre na Mnganese. Hivyo utaona kwamba tunda la ndizi ni muhimu kwa sababu limesheheni vitamini na madini muhimu katika mwili wa binadamu. Kuanzia leo itazame ndizi kama tunda muhimu sana katika ustawi wa afya yako na ni kinga dhidi ya maradhi unayoweza kuyaepuka kesho kwa kula tunda hili kwa wingi leo!

Chanzo. https://www.jamiiforums.com/jf-doctor/230883-faida-ya-ndizi-mbivu-katika-mwili-wa-binadamu.html

 

[King Kong III]

Thanks Mkubwa.

 

[maishamagumutanzania]

TUNASHUKURU MKUU TUMEONGEZA UELEWA WAKUJIKINGA SISI WENYEWE NA MAGONJWA MENGI NA HATARI SANA KATIKA KARNE HII YA 21.:heh:

 

[HAZOLE]

Conclusively, matunda yote uyajuayo ni dawa

 

[Mbimbinho]

Thanx mkuu, very helpful

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

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