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The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) highlighted the emerging research showing that even in later life; many cancers will be delayed or prevented by vegetables, fruit, and activity.

Vegetables and Fruit Protective Formula 

Vegetables and fruit are a protective formula. Anyone who wants to take care of themselves and their health or is worried about aging, plant food is designed to protect people.

They give the maximum protection with the most ease of use. It is like health insurance, it will save you money on prescriptions in the long run. Just for energy, boost plant food and physical activity. You will get long lasting results.

Recent Recommendations

These research findings reflect the recent surge in the study of diet and activity on aging. According to the latest estimates, nearly 4 in 5 cancers are diagnosed after the age of 55. Also, by age 64 a person’s cancer risk is 10 times that of younger people. What delays aging also lowers cancer risk.

Murky Science  

Here is why it is murky science. Aging has never before upped the risk of every chronic condition known to mankind. People did slow down and develop some problems, but the laundry lists of infirmities were no where near the number of conditions seen today.

What gives us a sense that aging brings about all these conditions, is that the taxing effects of our diets, stress levels, poor habits finally catching up with us as we age. Humans are built to perform well though out their lifetime. Feeling worse as you age has to do more with your having a backed-up, overloaded, crippled and sluggish system. The flawed thinking is that your body is in danger of every infection and disease as you age.

As you age you can have a healthy heart, blood pressure, sugar levels, adrenal functions, cholesterol levels, immune system, normal prostate, a good digestive tract, good circulation, and a strong back. Powerful health is created from the materials that you provide your body with. For your body to run its best you have to treat it well.

The Root of All Disease

The root of all disease including cancer starts simply. The everyday symptoms are letting you know that your body is not working efficiently. The signs are abdominal discomfort, allergies, anxiety, backaches, constipation, depression, fatigue, food cravings, headaches, hemorrhoids, indigestion, insomnia, irritability, lack of sexual drive and function, memory problems, and weight gain.

So instead of blaming everything on aging the increasing health care crisis is a reflection of lifestyle.

Fruit and Vegetables to the Rescue

Talk about simply solutions, this is the simplest. Fruits and vegetables grown in mineral-rich soil are an extremely concentrated source of nutrients. They are both regenerative and build the supply of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes for the body to use.

The C Complex nutrients like bioflavonoids, hesperidins, and rutin are known to help the immune system. This is the first line of defense that keeps the immune system in top form.

Micronutrients, trace elements, and nutritional compounds are what will keep cancer at bay. This isn’t a matter of age, but a matter of nutrition. If you clean up your act your body will respond with better digestion, more energy, better memory, and emotional stability.

Prostate cancer has a nutty solution, walnut consumption.

Prostate Cancer

With prostate cancer affecting one in six American men information of this nature is important. Diet is one of the environmental factors that play an important role. Diet either boosts your resistance to this, or is the connection to this condition.

Numerous clinical studies have shown that eating walnuts rich in omega 3 polyunsaturated fats, along with other antioxidants in plants decrease the risk for many diseases.

Walnuts

UC Davis and U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California have found that walnut consumption slows the growth of prostate cancer in mice. It also had beneficial effects on multiple genes that control tumor growth and metabolism. The study was done by Paul Davis, nutritionist in the Department of Nutrition and a researcher with the UC Davis Cancer Center. These findings were announced at the annual national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco recently.

The study showed that when mice with prostate tumors consume an amount of walnuts that a man can easily eat the tumor growth is controlled.

Davis fed a diet with whole walnuts to mice that had been genetically programmed to get prostate cancer. After 18 weeks, they found that consuming the human equivalent of 2.4 ounces of walnuts per day resulted in significantly smaller, slower-growing prostate tumors compared to mice consuming the same diet with an equal amount of fat, but not from walnuts.

Ralph deVere White, UC Davis Cancer Center director and a prostate cancer researcher. “We have to find a way to get these kinds of studies on nutritional products funded so that we can truly evaluate their effects on cancer patients.”

Conclusion

We don’t need studies to improve the quality of our life we need performance. The powers of studies eclipse the simple solution eat healthy foods. State-of-the art studies on state-of-the art naturally growing substances offers no protection, unless we do something with the information. If we wait for trials to see if it is safe and effective to eat whole foods, we will be destined to remain unhealthy.

Mango effects on breast and colon cancers shouldn’t come as any surprise, since all colorful fruits and vegetable have an effect on cell proliferation. What is surprising is that some of the most delicious plant foods can protect and help reverse this condition. What is even more unbelievable is that this easy and enjoyable way of preventing these conditions is not being utilized.

Mango

Mango has been found to prevent or stop certain colon and breast cancer cells in the lab. That’s according to a new study by Texas AgriLife Research food scientists, Kent, Francine, Ataulfo, Tommy/Atkins and Haden, who examined the five mango varieties most common in the U.S.
 
“If you look at what people currently perceive as a superfood, people think of high antioxidant capacity, and mango is not quite there,” said Dr. Susanne Talcott, who with her husband, Dr. Steve Talcott, conducted the study on cancer cells. “In comparison with antioxidants in blueberry, acai and pomegranate, it’s not even close.”

“It has about four to five times less antioxidant capacity than an average wine grape, and it still holds up fairly well in anticancer activity. If you look at it from the physiological and nutritional standpoint, taking everything together, it would be a high-ranking super food,” she said. “It would be good to include mangoes as part of the regular diet.”

Mighty Mango

This is neither modern technology coming to the rescue, or fiction. It is a plan everyday fact that whole foods are the exclusive property of nature. There is nothing that will come out of a lab that will create better health.

The Talcotts tested mango polyphenol extracts in vitro on colon, breast, lung, leukemia and prostate cancers. Polyphenols are natural substances in plants and are associated with a variety of compounds known to promote good health.

Mango showed some impact on lung, leukemia and prostate cancers but was most effective on the most common breast and colon cancers.

“What we found is that not all cell lines are sensitive to the same extent to an anticancer agent,” she said. “But the breast and colon cancer lines underwent apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Additionally, we found that when we tested normal colon cells side by side with the colon cancer cells, that the mango polyphenolics did not harm the normal cells.”

Arsenal

The mango should be added to the arsenal of anti-cancer plants. We get sucked into the concept that if it isn’t from a lab it isn’t effective. Ratcheting up our consumption of plant food will create health. Also, it will help reverse many serious conditions.

The point to remember they will do more trials to see if this is relevant, and proceed to do human tests. That will usually be with a version that comes from a lab, in isolated forms, with higher concentrations.

We don’t need more pharmaceuticals. What we need is to consume more fruits and vegetables.