Quotes About Cancer

Researchers looking for answers to these questions studied women with cancer and found that saturated fat in the diet promoted a more rapid spread of the cancer.61 Other researchers found similar results. For a woman who already has cancer, her risk of dying increased 40 percent for every 1,000 grams of fat consumed monthly.62 Studies also indicate that high fruit and vegetable intake improved survival, and fat on the body increases the risk of a premature death.

Certain ITCs detoxify and/or remove carcinogenic compounds—especially the green cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, which are rich sources of the ITC sulforaphane.4 Sulforaphane prevents carcinogens from binding to the DNA and being able to initiate cancerous changes in the cell, and it activates enzymes that protect cells from any DNA damage that has occurred.

Oil gets absorbed efficiently and quickly and converted almost instantly into body fat. Even olive oil, coconut oil, and soybean oil. When fat calories are absorbed so rapidly in such a large bolus, they cannot all be utilized for energy, so they are rapidly stored as body fat, something Americans have in large supply. Excess body fat increases the likelihood of cancer. Vegetable

Another study demonstrated that for every 100 grams of white rice consumed per day, breast cancer risk increased 19 percent, whereas the same amount of whole grain, brown rice, or beans had almost the direct opposite effect.

Twenty-eight servings of vegetables per week decreases prostate cancer risk by 33 percent, but just three servings of cruciferous vegetables per week decreases prostate cancer risk by 41 percent.9 • One or more servings of cabbage per week reduces the occurrence of pancreatic cancer by 38 percent.10

The China Project showed a strong correlation between cancer and the amount of animal protein, not just animal fat, consumed.6 Consumption of lean meats and poultry still showed a strong correlation with higher cancer incidence. These findings indicate that even low-fat animal foods such as skinless white-meat chicken are implicated in certain cancers.

Diets high in animal products and animal protein promote not only heart disease, but also cancer—predominantly by increasing the body's production of IGF

We are losing the war on cancer because we are on an incessant search for the impossible-to-find cure, when in fact removing the causes is the only way to win.

Our immune system also protects us from developing cancer. The same white blood cells and other immune system components that are utilized to fight infection are also used to recognize our own human cells as they become abnormal and to remove them before they can evolve into a tumor or cancer.

Vegetables and fruits protect against all types of cancers if consumed in large enough quantities.

Red Meat, Gut Bacteria, and Heart Disease The high-protein intake from animal products doesn't just accelerate aging and produce cancer. Excessive meat intake has also been associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular death.29 For example, combined data

Most Americans are not aware that the diet they feed their children guarantees a high cancer probability down the road.13 They don't even contemplate that eating fast-food meals may be just as risky (or more so) as letting their children smoke cigarettes.14

In one recent study, women who ate at least 10 grams of fresh mushrooms each day (equivalent to just one small mushroom) had a 64 percent decreased risk of breast cancer.

High anti-aromatase activity: white button, white stuffing, cremini, portobello, reishi, maitake • Mild anti-aromatase activity: shiitake, chanterelle, baby button • Little or no anti-aromatase activity: oyster, wood ear

Friendship will protect your heart from pain, bitterness, cancer and heart attack.

The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue. The treaty's signed, but the cancer ticks in your bones. Until I'd murdered my father and fornicated my mother I wasn't wise enough to see I was Oedipus.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

If you're having a bad hair day, try not to complain...there's a child out there with cancer who would kill just to have hair.

I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

I would never ever joke, kid, or use cancer as an excuse.

Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.