Cancer fighting Foods

Beans
The black and navy beans have been shown to significantly reduce cancer colon in university studies (on rats) here in the U.S by increasing levels of the fatty acid butyrate. This fatty acid has a protective effect against cancer when used in high concentrations. It’s also been shown to be effective in preventing cancer of the breast in rats.

Add a half-cup of these legumes to your diet a few times a week. For dry beans, soak in water and then cooked until tender. You can add onions and tomatoes and garlic for a bit more flavor. Or you can buy the canned beans, either way.

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Tomatoes
This fruit (yes, it’s a fruit, not a vegetable) has been shown to be best food source of lycopene, a carotenoid that gives tomatoes their reddish color, It was found to stop endometrial cancer cell growth, a cancer that causes nearly 8,000 deaths a year. It also helps fight lung, prostate and stomach cancers. Heating the tomatoes increases the amount of lycopene your body can absorb so using it in sauces is better than eating raw tomatoes.

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Broccoli
Recent studies at the University of Michigan show that broccoli has a significant amount of sulforaphan, which boosts the body's own protective enzymes and flushes out cancer-causing chemicals. The study also found that sulforaphane goes after cancer stem cells. Those are the cells that aid tumor growth. It helps prevent or fight breast, liver, lung, prostate, skin, stomach, and bladder cancers. And the more broccoli the better so eat it as often as you can..

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Berries
All berries are packed with cancer-fighting phytonutrients. But black raspberries, in particular, contain very high concentrations of phytochemicals called anthocyanins, which slow down the growth of pre-malignant cells and keep new blood vessels from forming (and potentially feeding a cancerous tumor), according to Gary D. Stoner, PhD, a professor of internal medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He suggests using a concentrated berry powder like he did in his studies, but a half cup a day will be beneficial too. Berries are a great fruit for fighting cancer of the colon, esophageal, skin and oral cancers.

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Walnuts
Phytosterols, cholesterol-like molecules, found in walnuts block estrogen receptors in breast cancer cells. It also helps fight prostate cancer. Elaine Hardman, PhD, associate professor at Marshall University School of Medicine said that in breast cancer, Phytosterols can possibly slow the cells' growth. Hardman’s research found that eating an ounce of walnuts a day is optimum.

Garlic
The Iowa Women's Health Study found that women with the highest amounts of garlic in their diets had a 50 percent lower risk of certain colon cancers than women who ate the least amount of garlic. Garlic also helps fight breast, esophageal and stomach cancers.
Phytochemicals in garlic have been found to halt the formation of nitrosamines, carcinogens formed in the stomach when you consume nitrate. Nitrates are a common food preservative, so try to eat as much fresh food as possible. Chop a clove of fresh garlic (Crush it too. That helps release the beneficial enzymes), and add it to your fresh tomato sauce simmering on the stove. Very tasty. Remember, tomatoes are flush with lycopene so it’s kind of a double dose of cancer-reducing risk.