One of the most effective and easiest means to promote healthy body and help prevent cancer is a healthy diet. What you eat can really kill you. However eating foods that are healthy and has cancer fighting properties can really help you get protection against cancer causing cells.

Here are some healthy foods that can help you prevent cancer and increase your immune system.

1. Cruciferous Vegetables

Vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage are called cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables have antioxidants that can help to lower the risks of cancer. A cruciferous vegetable contains an element known as indole-3-carbinol which can help fight off cancer by changing into protective variety a cancer promoting estrogen. Other research showed that cruciferous vegetables can help to avoid colon, lung, rectal, bladder and prostate cancers. Broccoli sprouts have a phytochemical called sulforaphane, a product of glucoraphanin is thought to help in protecting against some types of cancer, like rectal and colon cancer. it seems that the bitter the broccoli sprout the more glucoraphin it contains. One research found that consuming lots of cruciferous vegetables lowers the risk of acquiring colon cancer and for women who consume up to five serving of cruciferous vegetables every week has a less possibility of having lung cancer.

2. Tomatoes

This fresh fruit is the best source of lycopene this gives the tomato its red hue. It strikes oxygen molecules roaming known as free radicals, which are thought of resulting in cancer. Lycopene in fresh tomatoes can be easily absorbed by the body if it is cooked in either form as a tomato paste, as a sauce, or even drank as a juice.  Tomatoes produce more lycopene the hotter the weather becomes. They are also rich in vitamin C, which helps protect the body from cellular damage that can lead to cancer.

3. Garlic

Garlic has immunity boosting allium substances that seems to improve the activity of immune cells that deals with cancer and gradually helps destroy cancer causing compounds. Garlic contains active ingredients that helps destroy cancer cells, ingredient like tryptophan, sulpher based active agents, and selenium. People who eat cooked or raw garlic regularly is about 50 percent lesser possibility of acquiring stomach cancer and have two thirds less possibility of colorectal cancer compared to the people who eat less or who those not eat garlic. Helicobacter pylori a bacterium that is found in the stomach, which is also known to cause cancer in the stomach, garlic can help protect against stomach cancer because of its anti-bacterial properties. Eating 2 to 3 cloves of raw garlic per day can help ward off cancer causing bacteria.

4. Berries

All fruit berries are loaded with cancer battling phytonutritients. There are two most commonly researched compounds that has cancer fighting attribute that can be found on berries, the first which is greatly found in strawberries and raspberries is ellagicacid .Ellagic acid is considered to help protect against bladder, skin, breast, and lung cancer by working as an antioxidant and by reducing cancer cells from multiplying. And the second one is anthocyanosides which is rich in blueberries.

5. Mushroom

Mushrooms can help to fight cancer in our body and also improve our immune systems. These mushrooms are shiitake, maitake, agaricusblazeimuril, coriolusversicolor, and reishimushroom, they contain polysaccharides which helps the body build strong immunesystem. Lectin can also be found on mushrooms, which fight off cancer cells and prevent them from multiplying.


By Brian Musial

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