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Eat Carrots May Prevent Lung Cancer

Carrots May Prevent Lung Cancer

Fruits and vegetables of all kinds can rescue her from the ravages of lung cancer but the best are those rich in beta carotene, an orange pigment in carrots isolated 150 years ago.

Beta carotene is concentrated in orange vegetables and green (the green chlorophyll hides the yellow), and the darker the color, the higher the beta carotene. I recommend reading the article (lung cancer and deficiency of vegetables)

This substance, which counteracts the lung cáncer has been described as the morning after pill because it cancels cancer in animals fed a potent carcinogen.

In humans, the probability of getting lung cancer is reduced by 40% to 70% in regular consumers of beta-carotene, as indicated by almost all epidemiological studies conducted over the past ten years.

A typical study is that of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He showed that eating vegetables rich in beta carotene more than once a week, significantly decreased the risk of cancer, when compared with the risk of people who did not eat these plants.

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If I Have Lung Cancer What Should I Eat?

Nutritions and lung cancer

Although you have been diagnosed with lung cancer anyway, you should eat more vegetables and fruits.

It is time that food will not only help you stop the cancer, but also to actively treat. Practitioners of alternative medicine have advocated for a long time vegetarian or macrobiotic diet for people with cancer including lung.

Now, traditional medicine is receiving increasing evidence that fruits and vegetables may be a good option for patients with lung cancer. Recent research shows that the substances contained in foods as beta carotene, can attack and destroy tumor cells and slow the growth and spread of tumors.

In a recent report, the Center for Research on Cancer, University of Hawaii in Honolulu, said the powers of plants chemotherapy slowed the progression and virulence of the cancer, prolonging the life span.

The study involved 463 men and 212 women with lung cancer. The researchers found that eating lots of vegetables of all kinds, women doubled their lifetime.

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