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Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The nutritional treatment of breast cancer includes the cancer preventive recommendations, especially the inclusion of the cabbage family vegetables with the indole-3-carbinol phytochemicals. These plants have proven anticancer activity. Small, frequent, appetizing high-caloric meals are necessary for patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. For the woman experiencing anorexia or lack of appetite, food should literally be thought of as medicine: something she has to take! The body has significantly higher caloric needs than normal when fighting and destroying cancer cells.

Smart Medicine for Healthier Living : Practical A-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Adults Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND See book keywords and concepts

Other "prize" vegetables are all the members of the cabbage family, including red and green cabbage, savoy cabbage, bok choy and napa cabbage, broccoli, radishes, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts. interfere with their absorption from the digestive tract. Frying foods alters the fat-soluble vitamins in them as well. For a review of the vitamins you need every day, as well as their respective functions and food sources, see the table on pages 61-62. Minerals Minerals are part of all body tissues and fluids.

Breast Cancer? Breath Health! The Wise Woman Way Susun S. Weed See book keywords and concepts

You aren't a guinea pig, but those cabbage family plants don't mind; they'll be glad to protect your cells from the damaging effects of radiation, too. k Miso broth is the classic food for prevention of radiation damage. There's twice the protection if a quarter-ounce/5 grams of dried seaweed is added to the soup. In scientific studies, seaweed was able to neutralize radioactive isotopes in the human body. Researchers at McGill University say radioactive strontium binds to the algin in brown seaweeds to create sodium alginate, a compound easily and harmlessly excreted.

Eat a Mediterranean-style diet of mostly organically grown foods including daily use of cabbage family plants, raw and cooked greens, whole grains, beans, sunflower seeds, soy products, olive oil, garlic, seasonal fresh fruit, seaweed, yogurt and cheese, herbal infusions, herbal vinegars, and antioxidant seasonings. Plus, at least four times a month, seafood, nuts, mushrooms, dried fruit, and eggs; and, less than four times a month, meat, alcohol, white sugar, and coffee.

CAULIFLOWER (Brassica oleracea) See cabbage family. CELERY/CELERY SEEDS [Apium graveolens) Celery, eaten in quantity, raw or cooked, is mildly anti-cancer. It is an excellent food for women with breast cancer, especially those choosing chemotherapy, because it is rich in antioxidants, folic acid, and mineral salts, as well as constitutents that strengthen liver functioning, improve production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, protect the lungs from infection, improve cellular metabolism, build red blood cells quickly, and strengthen the adrenals.

COLLARDS (Brassica oleraced) See cabbage family; see greens. CORN (Zea mays) A worldwide study found a very strong correlation between low death rates from breast cancer and high consumption of fresh or dried corn (or beans or rice). Corn reduces breast cancer risk by influencing the output of thyroid hormones and by providing protease inhibitors. See oil. „naa^ CUCUMBERS {Cucumis melon) Garden cucumbers contain an antitumor compound called cucurbitacin as well as protease inhibitors. The roots of wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata) are said to be strongly cytotoxic.

The Healing Foods: The Ultimate Authority on the Curative Power of Nutrition Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley See book keywords and concepts

Kohlrabi is a member of the now-famous cabbage family of foods. That alone makes it a healing food. But wait-there's more. Kohlrabi is actually more nutritious than some of the better-known cabbage-family foods. Like the common turnip, it also earns kudos for its low sodium and fat content. When it comes to vitamin C and potassium, however, kohlrabi takes the lead. A cup of cooked kohlrabi supplies more than 100 percent of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for vitamin C. At the Market: To ensure mellow flavor and texture, choose globes that are no larger than 3 inches in diameter.

Breast Cancer: A Nutritional Approach Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

This doesn't recommend, however, completely avoiding it or the cabbage family. It means using them but in reasonable quantities, particularly if there is a history of thyroid underactivity in the family. This is also true of the anti-gray-hair vitamin, PABA. Selenium, appearing in nature as a gray crystal or a red powder, is as quixotic and contradictory a nutrient as any in the long list of our requirements, for in very small amounts it has been credited with preventing human cancer and in larger amounts it causes cancer in rats—though such an action in human beings has yet to be verified.

Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Gas, Intestinal: Hallmark of vatic disorders—soothe, ground, and nurture; avoid large amounts of cabbage family vegs, legumes, raw foods; chew carefully; TS: NP; charcoal capsules acutely or, if severe, Colocynth 30C. Foul gas: Carbo veg 30C. Chronic problem suggests intestinal yeast overgrowth (see Candidiasis); Hrbl: digestive teas after meals: esp ginger, fennel (unless pitta problematic); generally: vata pacifying regimen. Gout: No meat (esp organ meats) or alcohol, also avoid refined CHO's; Angry need to dominate. Cherries 1?

The Way of Herbs Michael Tierra See book keywords and concepts

Cruciferous Vegetables Vegetables in the cabbage family (cruciferae) contain high amounts of anti-cancer constituents called indoles and isothiocyanates. They are also high in vitamins A, C, E, beta-carotene, anti-carcinogenic minerals and fiber. Because when eaten raw, these vegetables contain a high amount of thyroid lowering agents, they should always be cooked. Some vegetables in this category include cabbage, collards, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, mustard greens, turnips and radishes.

Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In addition to phytosterols, cabbage family foods (cruciferous foods) are major sources of indole-3-carbinol, a proven cancer preventive agent. They include cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, broccoli, turnip greens, and radishes.22 • Add prostaglandin precursors — the counterinflammatory prostaglandins: fish oil, flaxseed oil, and GLA (borage oil). • Use vitamin supplements, especially relatively high doses of vitamin E, up to 800 International Units daily. Vitamin C, mixed carotenoids, zinc, and selenium may be helpful.

Both prostate enlargement and prostate cancer are much less frequent in Japan, for example, apparently because of the higher consumption of soy, beans, and the cabbage family, all of which contain phytoestrogens (or isoflavones), which are cancer-inhibiting. Researchers have found much higher levels of these phytoestrogens in the blood of Japanese men than in Occidental men. They appear to have a blocking effect against prostate cancer and prostate disease in general. Diet also affects prostaglandin metabolism, which may be important for prostate health.

Examples are the cancer-fighting indoles present in the cabbage family vegetables like Brussels sprouts and kale; natural phyto-estrogens in soybeans and other legumes, which prevent breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men; and polyphenols found in berries and green tea, which may combat heart disease as well as cancer. Carotenoids, which rev up the detoxification pathways that prevent cancers, are found in most fruits and vegetables, including parsley, carrots, citrus fruits, broccoli, cabbage, cucumbers, squash, yams, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, soy products, and berries.

The Healing Foods: The Ultimate Authority on the Curative Power of Nutrition Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley See book keywords and concepts

Wattenberg has isolated substances called indoles in cabbage family foods that probably explain their beneficial effects. One piece of Dr. Wattenberg's research is especially heartening for brussels sprouts lovers. He and his co-workers designed a diet rich in brussels sprouts and cabbage, which was then given to healthy young people. And sure enough, the diet improved the functioning of a metabolic system that deals with certain cancer agents. The fact is, however, that brussels sprouts would draw rave reviews from nutritionists even without findings such as these.

Yi teaspoon curry powder 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1 cup milk Vi cup shredded cheddar cheese M/ihet nhniit 1 aunri BRUSSELS SPROUTS The cabbage family Queen 55 calories per cup (cooked) There's no middle ground, we find, when it comes to brussels sprouts. Either you love 'em or you hate 'em. But to the nutritionist, there's another issue: How healthful are these tiny nuggets that look like minicabbages? Probably no one has pondered the question more than Lee Wattenberg, M.D., professor at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine.

The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine Jean Carper See book keywords and concepts

Lee Wattenberg isolated chemicals from the cabbage family, called indoles, that blocked cancer formation in animals. He and others meticulously worked out precisely how these and other chemicals in cabbage, including dithiolthiones suppress the activation of cancer-causing substances in animals. Cabbage and its cousins, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower, appear to guard cells against the very first onslaughts that progress to full-fledged cancer.

The Healing Foods: The Ultimate Authority on the Curative Power of Nutrition Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley See book keywords and concepts

The turnip's membership in the cabbage family clan is its most impressive asset. But it also provides some vitamin C and a starchy taste reminiscent of potatoes-but with fewer calories. If you're counting every milligram of sodium, though, stick with the potato; turnips apparently have more naturally occurring sodium than most vegetables-about 78 milligrams per cup. At the Market: The ideal turnip measures no wider than 2 inches in diameter and is round, firm, and creamy white to violet. The very freshest ones are sold with their greens attached.

They belong to the cabbage family of vegetables now in the cancer-prevention spotlight. The bottom line, obviously, is that greens are winners. They are perfect for helping to lower cholesterol, prevent cancer, lose weight, and control diabetes. At the Market: When shopping for greens, look for lively green, tender leaves. Avoid batches that look limp or yellowed. Those with the largest leaves are most likely to be bitter. As for chicory-sold by the head-look for a loose appearance, curly leaves, and ragged edges. Kitchen Tips: At home, wrap your greens in perforated plastic.

Beating Cancer with Nutrition Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS See book keywords and concepts

Indoles in the cabbage family, lycopenes in tomatoes, allicin in garlic, immune stimulants in sea vegetables and others make up this new and exciting category. Eating a wide variety of unprocessed plant foods will help to insure adequate intake of these quasi-nutrients. Can Nutrients Reverse the Cancer Process? 4)EXERCISE. Humans evolved as active creatures. Our biochemical processes depend on regular exercise to maintain homeostasis. A well respected Stanford physician, Dr.

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating Rebecca Wood See book keywords and concepts

Buying/Foraging With the exception of squash blossoms and some flowering cabbage family members, edible blossoms are usually not available from the greengrocer. Harvest blossoms from an organic garden or orchard and, when possible, collect just prior to use. Some blossoms—but not all—may be held for a day or more. To enhance storage of some varieties (but not others like squash blossoms or nasturtiums), submerge them in tepid water for five minutes, drain, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate. See Nasturtium; Squash Btossom.

Avoid any with a rank smell, yellow florets, or woody or hollowed stalks, all signs of an overmature vegetable. See Cabbage Family; Sprouts. BROCCOLI RABE Broccoli Raab, Rapini (Brassica rapa subsp. parachinensis) Growing on slender stalks, with leafy dark greens and both green buds and yellow flowers, broccoli rabe is aggressively pungent and bitter.

If you doubt me, do a taste comparison of broccoli with other equally nutritious cabbage family members. Broccoli tastes metallic and sulfurous; it's tough and grainy. An heirloom broccoli spear PLANTED WITH A BANG Brazil nuts are collected from the ground, rather than being plucked from their 150-foot-tall trees. The trees' two- to four-pound woody fruits contain up to 24 nuts each, which fit together like orange segments. When these heavy fruits break off and come crashing down, they sometimes shatter open, driving (or, from another perspective, planting) the nuts into the ground.

It is most typically available in the winter. See cabbage family. BOLETE Cepe, King Bolete, Porcino (Boletus edulis) Mushrooms don't get any more delicious than the bolete. Its texture is reminiscent of filet mignon—only more succulent. This large mushroom is spongy (with tubes rather than gills) under the cap and is famed throughout the northern hemisphere for its piny, earthy, memorable flavor. Health Benefits In the folk medicine of Bohemia and Bavaria, bolete mushrooms are credited with cancer prevention. This folk wisdom is supported by studies at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer.

Flowering cabbage is milder than broccoli rabe but otherwise its use and properties are similar. See cabbage family. Food Yeast See Nutritional Yeast. Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil See Palm Kernel Oil. French Bean See Green Bean. French Sorrel See Sorrel. FRISEE Curly Chicory, Curly Endive (Cichorium endiva) This salad green, which looks like a tangled mop, has a crisp texture and a bittersweet flavor. Frisee is small and loose heading with slender lime-colored outer leaves and lemon yellow inner leaves. The leafstalks are white and the leaf itself is deeply serrated.

While the whole cabbage family is valued for its anticarcinogenic glucosinolates, turnips and rutabagas are exceptionally high in these important nutrients. Likewise, they contain mustard oil, and, when overcooked, release a sulfurous aroma—but not as intensely as cabbage and Brussels sprouts do. Turnips contain vitamins B and C, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and other trace nutrients. They have more naturally occurring sodium than most vegetables. Turnips reduce kapha. Use Use fresh young turnips in salads as you would a radish. Cooking further sweetens turnips and meflows their bite.

The Complete Guide to Health and Nutrition Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

On the other hand, there are certain foods, like peanuts, untoasted soy flour, and vegetables of the cabbage family, that are antagonists to your absorption of iodine.35"38 In fact, they contain elements that keep you from absorbing it at all. So if you are trying to beef up your intake of iodine, you might avoid combining iodine-rich foods with these. How can you tell if you are deficient in iodine? A sluggish feeling —due to the fact that your thyroid is not producing enough thyroxine for your metabolism to work at normal speed—is one clue.

Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer Michael Lerner See book keywords and concepts

Foods that contain these substances include vegetables in the cabbage family, onions and related vegetables, winter squashes, carrots, and a number of other plant foods. These compounds act on many stages of cancer development to detoxify carcinogenic substances, trap free radicals, combine with heavy metals to form inert products, repair damage to DNA and RNA, and suppress the formation of tumors.

Breast Cancer? Breath Health! The Wise Woman Way Susun S. Weed See book keywords and concepts

Daikon is used to increase the lifespan of the terminally ill in Chinese hospitals. See cabbage family. RHUBARB (Rheum rhaponticum) The stalks of garden rhubarb are as effective at inhibiting cancer as the more famed roots, far tastier to consume, and safer as well. Cooked rhubarb stalks contain carotenes, flavones, antioxidants, and rhein and emodin-two phytochemicals shown to reduce the growth and spread of tumors. To improve on a good thing, and avoid white sugar, sweeten rhubarb with organic raisins, black mission figs, and a little maple syrup.

Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human: A Comparison of Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Substances Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens See book keywords and concepts

Other closely related groups of constituents are found almost entirely in one family, as the glucosinolates in the genus Brassica (the cabbage family). Still other constituents are uniquely identified with a single species, e.g., cicutoxin in water hemlock or tetrodotoxin in puffer fish. Furthermore, the range of concentrations is as broad as the distribution is diverse. Some instances demonstrate survival value, but others suggest imprecise and slowly evolving systems. Many plants and nearly all animals, including unicellular ones, have what appears to be a "chemical sense," i.e.

The Healing Foods: The Ultimate Authority on the Curative Power of Nutrition Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley See book keywords and concepts

One: It belongs to the cabbage family of anticancer vegetables. • Two: It is rich in carotene, a nutrient that is believed to help prevent cancer. • Three: A cup of fresh cooked broccoli tops the scales with times the Recommended Dietary Allowance for vitamin C. • Four: Broccoli is one of the best vegetable sources of calcium-another nutrient that looks like it has cancer-preventing properties. • Five: It contains almost no fat-the best news for those concerned about cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, and other organs. Broccoli is all heart.

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