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Exercise Curbs Cancer

Exercise Curbs Cancer

A number of studies showed that exercise curbs cancer. When you exercise earlier in your life it prevents cancer from occurring later in life. Exercise is still useful, if you have developed cancer. Exercise makes your immune system stronger. This helps you to survive longer. Natural
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Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Rates

Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Rates

Here are two studies, which found independently from each other that a reduction in cancer rates resulted from taking a simple supplement, vitamin D3. 1. Vitamin D3 supplementation made a big difference in terms of survival in 17,332 cases of cancer that were pooled by researchers fro
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Western Diet Bad For Prostate Cancer

Western Diet Bad For Prostate Cancer

Introduction 1. A study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health followed 926 men aged 40 to 84 who were diagnosed with prostate cancer, but whose cancer had not yet spread. The researchers monitored the patients for approximately 10 years. They also analyzed the diets of th
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Enough Vitamin D Needed To Reduce Cancer Risk

Enough Vitamin D Needed To Reduce Cancer Risk

Recently two publications caught my eye. They were dealing with vitamin D3 and its anti-inflammatory actions. 1. In the July 2015 issue of Cancer Prevention Research Catherine Duggan, PhD, the lead author reported that inflammatory cytokines can be reduced by either weight loss and/or
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New Findings About Cancer Gene

New Findings About Cancer Gene

Recently the news spread that elephants have 20-times the amount of a cancer suppressing gene, called p53. Elephants have about 100 times the cells of humans, but their cancer rate is only 5% in a lifetime, which lasts 50 to 70 years. Humans on the other hand have a cancer rate of bet
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Colon Cancer Risk Reduced In Two Weeks

Colon Cancer Risk Reduced In Two Weeks

Gastroenterologist Dr. Stephen O’Keefe of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recruited 20 black men in the US and 20 men in rural South Africa. He did an experiment of only two weeks where he exchanged their diets. The African men in South Africa were fed American fast fo
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Arthritis Responds To Glucosamine/Chondroitin

Arthritis Responds To Glucosamine/Chondroitin

This article shows that arthritis responds to Glucosamine/ Chondroitin. For years it was said that glucosamine would not work against arthritis. But people knew that when they combined glucosamine with chondroitin it showed effectiveness against arthritis. What is even more astounding
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Insufficient Vitamin D3 Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

Insufficient Vitamin D3 is Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

Introduction In this article I am discussing that insufficient vitamin D3 is linked to pancreatic cancer. Studies have shown that with higher latitude there is a decreased blood level of vitamin D3, which is associated with a much higher rate of pancreatic cancer. A group of researche
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Lycopene Lowers Kidney Cancer Risk

Lycopene Lowers Kidney Cancer Risk

Lycopene is found in watermelon or tomatoes and has been associated with prevention of colon cancer. Now a study in Cancer showed that lycopene also helps to suppress the development of kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma). Cathryn Bock, PhD. MPM and associates took the data from the
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Colorectal Cancer Low In Fish-Eating Vegetarians

Colorectal Cancer Low In Fish-Eating Vegetarians

Researchers from Loma Linda University followed 77,659 men and women who were from the Seventh-Day Adventist Churches for 7 years. This church group has been researched in the past as it is a cohesive cohort of non-smokers and non-drinkers. Many are also vegetarians, but not all. Food
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