CANCER: MEDICAL RESEARCH
Medical research has also found that the natural antioxidant nutrient beta-carotene, found in yellow and green vegetables may also help prevent cancer and reverse changes in cells that precede the development of cancer.
Dr Peter Greenwald, Director of the National Cancer Institute. Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, stated that people should be urged to eat foods rich in nutrients believed to have cancer preventing properties. These are vitamins A,C,E, B12, folic acid, beta-carotene, selenium and fibre. Evidence has shown that taking antioxidant supplements may help prevent such cancers as lung, breast, cervical, bladder, colon, oesophageal, stomach and skin.
Antioxidants are needed in our diets to help control free radicals, and these free radicals if uncontrolled, may be the cause of many cancers. To provide maximum protection against the free-radical disease in cancer a continuous supply of the antioxidant nutrients must come from our diet. Some antioxidant nutrients such as selenium are lacking in Australian soils and a lack of this and other antioxidants may decrease our bodies’ natural protection process against cancer.
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