Cancer Fighting Food

August 10th, 2008 | Category: Organic Living

I came across a book earlier today on cancer fighting foods. While these kind of books normally annoy me and most of the foods mentioned are already well known for their health benefits, I did think it was worth noting the top cancer fighting foods, at least as a reminder.

broccoli – and the entire brassica family
orange vegetables which contain carotenoids such as carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, beetroot etc
tomatoes for lycopene – especially important to reduce the risk of prostrate cancer
berries such as strawberries and raspberries – important to get organic berries not only to avoid toxins but they taste so much better
pomegranates
citrus
mushrooms
herbs and spices
chocolate – the 70% cocoa variety not the high sugar variety

Then of course there are two very important drinks:

Plus

vitamin D – extremely important in fighting cancer
selenium – which is found naturally in organic vegetables but not in conventionally grown foods
omega 3 – I get my daily dose by taking supplements
probiotics – can apparently reduce the risk of colon cancer