Eating-Veggies.com: High Alkaline Diet blog

I was listening to the radio program "coast to coast am" last night and heard famous author Christian Wilde spreading knowledge about the effects of turmeric on inflammation. Christian Wilde is famous for his books on inflammation and heart disease and how inflammation is responsible foe most of the disease in the human body. If you simply buy a bottle of pharmaceutical grade turmeric and take it twice a day with meals, you can effectively reduce the odds of heart disease and cancer.

This is easy compared to eliminating your favorite cancer causing foods from your diet but reducing these foods is still something that has to be done. Taking turmeric along with omega-3 fish oils and a diet of 50-80% alkaline foods daily is the recipe for living a healthy life while minimizing the odds of death from the diseases that kill most of the people in the western world. Turmeric is becoming famous for its anti-cancer properties and should be consumed by every person who wants to optimize his or her health. Turmeric: Ancient Superfood?

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One of the reasons thai i endorse a high alkaline diet is that it will help reduce the risk of a variety of cancers. Doctors have said for years to greatly increase your consumption of vegetables and fruits to cut your risk of developing cancer. Recently i have discovered soy and have been adding it to my diet as a plant source of protein. I have been very intrigued by its effects on cancer cell growth.

Women, especially over-50s, who eat a lot of soy can "significantly" cut their risk of developing the disease, according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Dietary researchers who studied the diet and health of 68,412 women aged 40-70 concluded: "After adjustment for age, birth calendar year and total energy intake, consumption of soy foods was significantly associated with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer. We found that risk of colorectal cancer decreased with increasing soy food intake, primarily among postmenopausal women."

The most recent findings may help explain why so many fewer people in asian countries such as China and Japan, where soy is a major part of their diet, develop bowel cancer compared with Western countries, where soy consumption is extremely low. Soybeans are often eaten whole as part of a meal and soy is also used as an alternative to dairy in products such as milk, yogurt and cream cheese. Researchers have also linked soy with helping to reduce levels of cholesterol.

Soy protein contains many essential nutrients. Medical researchers have stated for years that populations who regularly include soy protein in their diets and reduce meat intake are at less risk of developing cancer, especially breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. The basic understanding about soy is that regular dietary intake reduces the risk of a variety of cancers, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer. Eat a diet high in alkaline foods

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My all-time favorite vegetable to see at the dinner table has to be the hated broccoli. Children across North America despise this most nutritious of plants and it has even been criticized by an American president. Yet ounce for ounce, this may be one of the most nutritionally powerful alkaline plants that you can eat.

The vegetable that we call Broccoli has been around for over 2000 years, The name "broccoli" comes from the Latin word brachium, which means "branch". Americans have been growing it for roughly 200 years. The first commercially grown broccoli was harvested in New York, then planted in the 1920's in California. It was then marketed on the East coast and by 1925 the broccoli business was well established. It is related to cabbage, brussel sprouts and cauliflower as a cruciferous plant and like most dark green foods, it has anti cancer properties.

Preparing this plant for eating is pretty easy and it can be used in a wide variety of dishes as it can be used cooked or raw. In America, broccoli covered in melted cheddar cheese seems to be the most popular broccoli dish. Chopped broccoli can be tossed into rice or pasta dishes and does well in homemade soups. I like to add it to my jambalaya.

People who eat an abundance of broccoli have seem to have fewer cancers of the colon, breast, lungs, and prostate. Broccoli contains indoles, which can help put a stranglehold on the estrogens that can promote the growth of tumors. Broccoli is also rich in sulforaphane, which causes cells to make enzymes that fight cancer and beta-carotene, another cancer fighter.

Broccoli is a good source of calcium and its calcium is far more absorbable than the calcium of dairy products. This is good to know since their are so many negatives to eating dairy including the danger of saturated fats. Dark green veggies are full of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients that give the body just what it needs to operate at optimum performance. Eating-Veggies.com

Labels: alkaline foods, cancer