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Nutrition and Cancer Prevention (Paperback)
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Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 35
percent of cancers are potentially avoidable by nutritional
modification. These modifications include strategies such as
caloric restriction and limitation of specific macro-nutrient
groups. However, recent research indicates that what you eat may
well be just as important as what you shun when it comes to
avoiding cancer, especially colon, breast, and prostate cancers,
which have become epidemic in the Western hemisphere. Nutrition and
Cancer Prevention brings together the top experts in nutritive
health who present significant evidence that specific dietary
micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting
cancer, modulating its development, or reducing tumor metastasis.
As a way of introduction, the book updates the descriptive
epidemiology of the major cancers of the Western world, and then
discusses the likely mechanisms of action that occur when certain
essential nutrients become diet staples. The text moves on to
explore the scientific evidence, looking at the various properties
of each class of micronutrient, chapter by chapter. These classes
include vitamins; minerals, particularly calcium and selenium;
phytosterols and polyphenols, which are found in soy and green tea;
isothiocyanates found in broccoli, kale, and other cruciferous
vegetables; and specialized dietary lipids, including omega-3 fatty
acids, linoleic acid, and sphingolipids. The book also dedicates
chapters to the roles that obesity and excessive alcohol
consumption play in cancer development. "...we can hope to utilize
nutritional interventions to slow the progression of tumor
development in the intraepithelial hyperplasia phase before tumor
size becomes large enough for diagnosis and probability of
metastasis increases. Opportunity exists to stretch this prevention
phase so that symptom-free life of the future patient with cancer
is prolonged." --from Chapter 2, How Dietary Components Protect fro
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