How These Vegetables Help Protect Your Body From Harmful Mutations
Plus 3 cooking tips to transform these foods into ‘anti-cancer shields.’
“Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle.” — Pharma Research, 2008.
When cancer bursts into our lives, these raw data hit home: who doesn’t know of a loved one, friend, or colleague facing this disease?
You may have experienced the diagnosis and the treatment firsthand. After all, researchers predict that cancer will be the leading cause of death worldwide by the end of this century.
However, we do not need to be helpless victims held hostage by our genes. Instead, we can take responsibility (to some extent) for the lifestyle and environmental factors contributing to cancer development — according to the above numbers, up to 95% of the solution appears to be in our hands.
One of the most relevant lifestyle factors is our diet.
Although not exclusively, our diet is strongly associated with several types of cancer, especially colorectal and breast cancer.
The good news is that the link between diet and the risk of developing cancer is a two-way street:
