Effective ways to prevent breast cancer without drugs....
Today's Post: Tuesday, 4-20-2010
Our post yesterday on improving low libido in women touched on this topic. And, we repeat that information here since those methods both are inexpensive and have other health benefits – substantial ones.
But, there are other methods that are likely to work which also have other health benefits from preventing heart disease to preventing other cancers.
So I thought it made sense to do this separate post today.
It was also prompted in part by the article I read yesterday, 4-19-2010 on the online health news from AP titled:
“Study: 2 good choices to prevent breast cancer”
These two “good” choices were pretty dreadful! One is a bit pricey. Both tend to cause hot flashes. One apparently tends to INCREASE your chances of getting uterine cancer. The other you can only take AFTER menopause when many women get breast cancer long before that.
As you’ll see, the nondrug methods may be even more protective if you do them all and produce NONE of these side effects and have other health benefits.
Here are some quotes from that article.:
“Tamoxifen cut the chances of developing the most serious forms of breast cancer in half, the research shows, but with a higher risk of uterine cancer. Evista cut the cancer risk by 38 percent, with fewer uterine problems and other serious side effects.
"We've now documented that it's far less toxic" than tamoxifen, said study leader Dr. D. Lawrence Wickerham. He is a cancer specialist at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh who has consulted for makers of both drugs.
Tamoxifen has long been used to treat and prevent breast cancer. It blunts estrogen, which fuels the growth of most tumors that occur after menopause.
Evista, sold by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co., more selectively blocks estrogen. It is only for use after menopause; its safety and effectiveness before then are unknown.
Generic tamoxifen costs about 30 cents a day, versus up to $3 for Evista. Both can cause hot flashes.”
1. The method I decided to list first may well have similar effects to these drugs and while some people may find it more challenging to do than others, it’s inexpensive and has many other health benefits.
Research was done that found that in men, eating either RAW broccoli florets or RAW cauliflower at least once each week the incidence of the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer was cut in half. (Cooked, these vegetables are still good for helping you to lose excess fat or avoid gaining it; but their direct cancer fighting abilities are apparently destroyed.) I now eat a serving or two of raw broccoli florets five days a week at my lunch since I read this research.
(Cauliflower was as effective as the more famous broccoli and some women may find it easier to eat if they find broccoli too harsh a taste.)
Since it’s been found that a very large number of chemicals people are now exposed to have very similar effects to estrogen which is turned down by the two drugs, many women may develop breast cancer from exposure to these chemicals. Eating these cruciferous vegetables reduces excessive estrogen in the blood stream and so may well have quite similar effects to taking these drugs; and some health writers believe it also can combat these estrogen like chemicals.
2. Even better, eating cruciferous vegetables, particularly organic ones also prevents OTHER cancers. For variety, you can also eat Brussels sprouts, radishes, watercress, cabbage, horse radish and more. In addition to preventing cancer they all also help you to lose excess fat or avoid gaining it. Since obesity tends to go with an increased chance of getting many cancers, that effect is protective also.
In addition, eating a robust amount of many kinds of carotenoids is believed to help prevent cancer. Broccoli, if you are OK with eating it, also is a good source of carotenoids. So are carrots, tomatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, and most greens.
3. Even better, you get MORE of the carotenoids into your body if you eat these vegetables in a salad with extra virgin olive oil. Tomatoes also give you more lycopene and other carotenoids when cooked and eaten with extra virgin olive oil.
The extra virgin olive oil also may help prevent cancers and DOES help prevent heart disease, particularly when eaten instead of oils like canola, soy, corn, and safflower that are high in omega 6 oils or butter or lard. It helps keep your LDL cholesterol and triglycerides low and either keeps your HDL high or increases it. (Butter and lard tend to increase LDL cholesterol.)
But, eating extra virgin olive oil instead of omega 6 oils also helps prevent excess inflammation which has been implicated in helping to cause all cancers, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.
And, there’s more.
Today, HealthDay news had this.:
"Olive Oil May Be Key to Mediterranean Diet's Benefits
TUESDAY, April 20, 2010 (HealthDay News)
The heart-healthy effects of the famous "Mediterranean diet" may have something to do with components of virgin olive oil that repress genes that promote inflammation, a new study reports.
"These findings strengthen the relationship between inflammation, obesity and diet and provide evidence at the most basic level of healthy effects derived from virgin olive oil consumption in humans," study leader Francisco Perez-Jimenez of the University of Cordoba, Spain, said in a news release from BioMed Central, publisher of BMC Genomics. The study was published online April 19 in the journal.
Perez-Jimenez and his colleagues studied how a diet rich in so-called phenol compounds -- which are found in olive oil, especially extra-virgin types -- affected the workings of genes in 20 people with a common condition called metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome puts people at risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes."
That means that extra virgin olive oil also reduces inflammation DIRECTLY – not just by eating it instead of omega 6 oils.
4. Yes it’s true that you can get less exposure to herbicides and pesticides by eating organic vegetables. And organic vegetables are much higher in nutrients including the cancer fighting ones particularly.
So buy only organic produce when you can.
But if that’s all you do, it’s like closing a small window and leaving a large sliding glass door open in terms of keeping these chemicals out of your body.
Most of the herbicides and pesticides people ingest are in the fats in meat of the grain fed animals they eat.
You can eliminate close to 100 % of these pollutants from your food, if instead of eating lots of full fat grain fed meat, you get your protein from nonfattening plant sources such as nuts, beans, lentils, and some whole and very low glycemic grains like wild rice and barley; you get your protein from wild caught fish (farmed are worse than grain fed meat for pollutants); animals such as cattle, buffalo, and lamb fed ONLY grass; some eggs – ideally from pasture fed chickens, and only leanest most fat trimmed version of meat from grain fed animals when you eat that kind of meat.
What happens is that the grain grain-fed animals are fed and even stuffed with is from grains that are sprayed with both pesticides and herbicides and they become bioconcentrated in their fat. For similar reasons, it’s good to mostly use nonfat and very lowfat milk and yogurt and go VERY easy on cream, butter, and cheese unless you are sure it’s from animals fed ONLY grass.
5. To the absolute maximum you can avoid having pesticides and herbicides and chemical room “fresheners” used in your home, garden, and yard.
Try to never use these yourself. If you must use them, use the least you can. Read the cautions and directions first. And, ventilate the area about three times as much as they recommend while trying not to be in that area for several hours after these are applied.
Why poison yourself if you can avoid it?
6. That leads to the next to last point. Smoking and second hand tobacco smoke are not only perhaps the most effective cause AND trigger for heart attacks and strokes, they cause about 30% of ALL cancers including cancers of the breast, uterus, and ovaries.
7. There are two supplements that may, BY THEMSELVES, do better than these two drugs at preventing breast cancer if you take both of supplements.
This was in yesterday’s post.:
"....cancer rates in general are low in India where the spice turmeric is used in curry in their food. One set of follow up studies on this was in Frank Mangano's health email today.:” (Monday, 4-19-2010)
"The University of Missouri found that curcumin (the active ingredient in turmeric) decreases breast tumors. They also found that turmeric could reduce breast cancer risk in women who use hormone replacement therapies. Turmeric has also been shown to fight cancerous polyps." (That means it also helps prevent throat and colon cancer.)
Since this newly understood intake level of vitamin D3 has been discovered to be needed, taking that much each day has been found to also help improve resistance to infection and help prevent heart disease and autoimmune diseases.
And, since turmeric has been found to prevent Alzheimer's disease in part by removing the amyloid plaque that causes it, it makes excellent sense to take a curcumin supplement for other health protective reasons."
I do take over 5,000 iu of vitamin D3 and a curcumin supplement daily and spice my food at least twice a week with a curry spice containing turmeric since I want the protection from excessive infections, autoimmune disease,
Alzheimer’s disease, and many cancers that this gives me.
But note that this combination may be particularly effective in also preventing the same estrogen driven kinds of breast cancer that the two drugs target.
By also eating the raw cruciferous vegetable and doing these other things, you may be able to prevent breast cancer as well or very possibly better than the drugs. You don’t need to be past menopause to use them and they still work well if you are.
Today's Post: Tuesday, 4-20-2010
Our post yesterday on improving low libido in women touched on this topic. And, we repeat that information here since those methods both are inexpensive and have other health benefits – substantial ones.
But, there are other methods that are likely to work which also have other health benefits from preventing heart disease to preventing other cancers.
So I thought it made sense to do this separate post today.
It was also prompted in part by the article I read yesterday, 4-19-2010 on the online health news from AP titled:
“Study: 2 good choices to prevent breast cancer”
These two “good” choices were pretty dreadful! One is a bit pricey. Both tend to cause hot flashes. One apparently tends to INCREASE your chances of getting uterine cancer. The other you can only take AFTER menopause when many women get breast cancer long before that.
As you’ll see, the nondrug methods may be even more protective if you do them all and produce NONE of these side effects and have other health benefits.
Here are some quotes from that article.:
“Tamoxifen cut the chances of developing the most serious forms of breast cancer in half, the research shows, but with a higher risk of uterine cancer. Evista cut the cancer risk by 38 percent, with fewer uterine problems and other serious side effects.
"We've now documented that it's far less toxic" than tamoxifen, said study leader Dr. D. Lawrence Wickerham. He is a cancer specialist at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh who has consulted for makers of both drugs.
Tamoxifen has long been used to treat and prevent breast cancer. It blunts estrogen, which fuels the growth of most tumors that occur after menopause.
Evista, sold by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co., more selectively blocks estrogen. It is only for use after menopause; its safety and effectiveness before then are unknown.
Generic tamoxifen costs about 30 cents a day, versus up to $3 for Evista. Both can cause hot flashes.”
1. The method I decided to list first may well have similar effects to these drugs and while some people may find it more challenging to do than others, it’s inexpensive and has many other health benefits.
Research was done that found that in men, eating either RAW broccoli florets or RAW cauliflower at least once each week the incidence of the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer was cut in half. (Cooked, these vegetables are still good for helping you to lose excess fat or avoid gaining it; but their direct cancer fighting abilities are apparently destroyed.) I now eat a serving or two of raw broccoli florets five days a week at my lunch since I read this research.
(Cauliflower was as effective as the more famous broccoli and some women may find it easier to eat if they find broccoli too harsh a taste.)
Since it’s been found that a very large number of chemicals people are now exposed to have very similar effects to estrogen which is turned down by the two drugs, many women may develop breast cancer from exposure to these chemicals. Eating these cruciferous vegetables reduces excessive estrogen in the blood stream and so may well have quite similar effects to taking these drugs; and some health writers believe it also can combat these estrogen like chemicals.
2. Even better, eating cruciferous vegetables, particularly organic ones also prevents OTHER cancers. For variety, you can also eat Brussels sprouts, radishes, watercress, cabbage, horse radish and more. In addition to preventing cancer they all also help you to lose excess fat or avoid gaining it. Since obesity tends to go with an increased chance of getting many cancers, that effect is protective also.
In addition, eating a robust amount of many kinds of carotenoids is believed to help prevent cancer. Broccoli, if you are OK with eating it, also is a good source of carotenoids. So are carrots, tomatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, and most greens.
3. Even better, you get MORE of the carotenoids into your body if you eat these vegetables in a salad with extra virgin olive oil. Tomatoes also give you more lycopene and other carotenoids when cooked and eaten with extra virgin olive oil.
The extra virgin olive oil also may help prevent cancers and DOES help prevent heart disease, particularly when eaten instead of oils like canola, soy, corn, and safflower that are high in omega 6 oils or butter or lard. It helps keep your LDL cholesterol and triglycerides low and either keeps your HDL high or increases it. (Butter and lard tend to increase LDL cholesterol.)
But, eating extra virgin olive oil instead of omega 6 oils also helps prevent excess inflammation which has been implicated in helping to cause all cancers, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.
And, there’s more.
Today, HealthDay news had this.:
"Olive Oil May Be Key to Mediterranean Diet's Benefits
TUESDAY, April 20, 2010 (HealthDay News)
The heart-healthy effects of the famous "Mediterranean diet" may have something to do with components of virgin olive oil that repress genes that promote inflammation, a new study reports.
"These findings strengthen the relationship between inflammation, obesity and diet and provide evidence at the most basic level of healthy effects derived from virgin olive oil consumption in humans," study leader Francisco Perez-Jimenez of the University of Cordoba, Spain, said in a news release from BioMed Central, publisher of BMC Genomics. The study was published online April 19 in the journal.
Perez-Jimenez and his colleagues studied how a diet rich in so-called phenol compounds -- which are found in olive oil, especially extra-virgin types -- affected the workings of genes in 20 people with a common condition called metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome puts people at risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes."
That means that extra virgin olive oil also reduces inflammation DIRECTLY – not just by eating it instead of omega 6 oils.
4. Yes it’s true that you can get less exposure to herbicides and pesticides by eating organic vegetables. And organic vegetables are much higher in nutrients including the cancer fighting ones particularly.
So buy only organic produce when you can.
But if that’s all you do, it’s like closing a small window and leaving a large sliding glass door open in terms of keeping these chemicals out of your body.
Most of the herbicides and pesticides people ingest are in the fats in meat of the grain fed animals they eat.
You can eliminate close to 100 % of these pollutants from your food, if instead of eating lots of full fat grain fed meat, you get your protein from nonfattening plant sources such as nuts, beans, lentils, and some whole and very low glycemic grains like wild rice and barley; you get your protein from wild caught fish (farmed are worse than grain fed meat for pollutants); animals such as cattle, buffalo, and lamb fed ONLY grass; some eggs – ideally from pasture fed chickens, and only leanest most fat trimmed version of meat from grain fed animals when you eat that kind of meat.
What happens is that the grain grain-fed animals are fed and even stuffed with is from grains that are sprayed with both pesticides and herbicides and they become bioconcentrated in their fat. For similar reasons, it’s good to mostly use nonfat and very lowfat milk and yogurt and go VERY easy on cream, butter, and cheese unless you are sure it’s from animals fed ONLY grass.
5. To the absolute maximum you can avoid having pesticides and herbicides and chemical room “fresheners” used in your home, garden, and yard.
Try to never use these yourself. If you must use them, use the least you can. Read the cautions and directions first. And, ventilate the area about three times as much as they recommend while trying not to be in that area for several hours after these are applied.
Why poison yourself if you can avoid it?
6. That leads to the next to last point. Smoking and second hand tobacco smoke are not only perhaps the most effective cause AND trigger for heart attacks and strokes, they cause about 30% of ALL cancers including cancers of the breast, uterus, and ovaries.
7. There are two supplements that may, BY THEMSELVES, do better than these two drugs at preventing breast cancer if you take both of supplements.
This was in yesterday’s post.:
"....cancer rates in general are low in India where the spice turmeric is used in curry in their food. One set of follow up studies on this was in Frank Mangano's health email today.:” (Monday, 4-19-2010)
"The University of Missouri found that curcumin (the active ingredient in turmeric) decreases breast tumors. They also found that turmeric could reduce breast cancer risk in women who use hormone replacement therapies. Turmeric has also been shown to fight cancerous polyps." (That means it also helps prevent throat and colon cancer.)
Since this newly understood intake level of vitamin D3 has been discovered to be needed, taking that much each day has been found to also help improve resistance to infection and help prevent heart disease and autoimmune diseases.
And, since turmeric has been found to prevent Alzheimer's disease in part by removing the amyloid plaque that causes it, it makes excellent sense to take a curcumin supplement for other health protective reasons."
I do take over 5,000 iu of vitamin D3 and a curcumin supplement daily and spice my food at least twice a week with a curry spice containing turmeric since I want the protection from excessive infections, autoimmune disease,
Alzheimer’s disease, and many cancers that this gives me.
But note that this combination may be particularly effective in also preventing the same estrogen driven kinds of breast cancer that the two drugs target.
By also eating the raw cruciferous vegetable and doing these other things, you may be able to prevent breast cancer as well or very possibly better than the drugs. You don’t need to be past menopause to use them and they still work well if you are.
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posted by David at 1:09 PM
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A Silicon Valley company, called U-Systems -- see http://www.u-sys.com/ -- has developed an advanced ultra-sound breast cancer screening device that at some point you may have access to as their system becomes available in more locations.
This is important because there is reason to think their system will be more accurate in screening women with dense breasts in whom X-Ray Mammography is often not thorough enough and who also are a somewhat higher risk.
But, an additional reason this may be important is that this may be a way women can get screened well without the x-ray radiation now used and which itself adds to the risk of cancer.
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