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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.

Place cabbage mixture in a large serving bowl, sprinkle with Parmesan and serve hot. Makes 4 servings CANCER Betting on Better News Ahead Cancer experts are more optimistic than ever. Several decades ago, they declared a "war on cancer," and sure enough, the battles are starting to pay off. But who would have expected that nutrients found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and other foods would prove to be our best preventive weapons? The case for preventing cancer through nutrition is impressive, and getting more so as research intensifies.

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They found that carrot fiber does increase fecal bulk, a sign of colonic health (about the same as cabbage) but only half as much as wheat bran. It takes, they concluded, about four and a half cups of whole boiled carrots to double fecal bulk; in contrast, about three fourths of a cup of wheat bran can do the same thing. Carrots, especially in combination with other high fiber foods, do promote regularity. Increasing fecal bulk also may cut the chances of colon cancer because among other things carcinogens are diluted, thereby reducing exposure of the colon wall.

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Best supplement Biotin. Helpers Works with other B vitamins, magnesium, and manganese. Best supplemented as part of a B complex with food. Robbers Raw egg white, which contains avidin (but this is not significant in cooked egg whites), fried food. VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ADD) What it does Strengthens the immune system and fights infections. Makes collagen, keeping bones, skin, and joints firm and strong. Antioxidant, detoxifying pollutants and protecting against cancer and heart disease. Helps make antistress hormones and turns food into energy.

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And while broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, watercress, and radishes are fairly common foods to the American table, others are only now beginning to move into the mainstream. Crucifers that were once limited to a single region of the country, to ethnic markets, or to health-food stores are becoming widely available, both for their fresh new taste and their health benefits. Collards Collard greens, for example, are a typically Southern food. Early nutritionists attributed to collards the good health of poor Southerners whose diets were otherwise insufficient.

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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.

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It was Professor Lee Wattenburg of Minnesota who found that cabbage extract has the ability to prevent the initiation and promotion of cancer cells.63 Of the various fractions in cruciferous plants, including indole-3-carbinol, isothiocyanates, glucosinolates, dithiolethiones and phenols; they are able to:64 0 Prevent chemicals from being converted into cancer-causing compounds 0- Induce liver detoxification systems, such as glutathione S-transferase and P-450, to help rid the body of poisons. 0 Scavenge free radicals, thus working as an antioxidant.

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Could we extrapolate that there would be fewer fatal coronary thrombosis victims if we all ate more raw oranges, broccoli, cabbage, papaya, and so forth? My answer is yes, since there is every indication that nature intended us to eat of her bounty "as is." And it is true that the lowest rate of heart disease deaths occurs at the end of the summer—the period during which most of us eat the most fresh food in season. If you are hard put to find a fresh green vegetable in winter, are on a tight budget, or simply like the little critters, you might try growing sprouts.

Vegetables that contain phosphorus include legumes, whole grains, celery, carrots, cauliflower, string beans, cucumbers, chard, cabbage, and pumpkins. Fruits also contain a healthy supply of your body's factotum. Those who have a problem with their weight may wish to emphasize lecithin-rich foods like eggs and liver, which can help mobilize the fats in your bloodstream. The same approach can be useful if you suffer from atherosclerosis or liver cirrhosis.

Excellent sources are grapes, rosehips, prunes, oranges, lemon juice, cherries, black currants, plums, parsley, grapefruit, cabbage, apricots, peppers, papaya, cantaloupe, tomatoes, broccoli, and blackberries.48 With so many delicious foods to choose from, the typical mixed diet may supply as much as a gram of bioflavonoids daily.49 Here's a hint for getting the most bioflavonoids from your food: when you eat citrus fruit, don't remove all those white layers around the skin and each segment of fruit. You'll be tossing away your richest source of bioflavonoids.

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.

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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.

The diet was based around the fresh juices, which, in addition to pure carrot juice, included carrot juice mixed with apple juice, spinach juice, cabbage juice, cucumber juice, beet juice, or tomato juice.24 To a large degree, the Livingston diet is strikingly similar to Gerson's diet, but considerably more permissive. Vitamin Therapy Livingston summarizes her view of megavitamin therapy in her Physician's Handbook.25 We use megavitamins in our program because it is not feasible to attempt to determine what individual deficiencies may exist.

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It took only a few centuries for Europeans to breed the wild plant Brassica oleracea, similar to collards, into the cole crop vegetables—kale, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, kohlrabi, and cauliflower—and the change from teosinte to maize is no more dramatic than this. The development of the ear is an adaptation to a switch in the niche from wild to domestic. While the natural distribution of teosinte has contracted within Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras since prehistoric times, that of maize has continued to expand through human efforts to adapt it to new habitats.

Added to stews or eaten boiled or fried as a table vegetable, arracacha roots have a delicate flavor that combines the savors of celery, cabbage, and roasted chestnut. Arracacha is still almost as little known scientifically as it was at the time of Columbus, but it is eaten in most Latin American countries as far north as Costa Rica and reportedly is also found in Cuba and Haiti.

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A good antidote to this situation is to eat a diet that emphasizes both high-protein foods and sulfur-rich foods like eggs, fish, meat, cabbage, and brussels sprouts.86 The symptoms of selenosis are loss of olfactory (smell) sense, a sore throat, respiratory problems, and an upset stomach. Further symptoms include a skin rash, brittle hair and nails, irritability and exhaustion.87 In an extreme toxic state, symptoms include loss of teeth, pneumonia, fatal pulmonary edema, myelitis (inflamed spinal cord and bone marrow), and progressive paralysis.

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Appendix A Selected Substances in Food Subjected to Some Degree of Carcinogenicity Testing in Animals and for Which Some Positive Results Have Been Reported Nature of Supporting Extent of Natural Substance Evidence Occurrence in Foods References From Higher Plants Allyl isothiocyanate Anthraquinone, 1-hydroxy Bladder papillomas in male rats; negative in mice and female rats; clastogenic, mutagenic Raw cabbage, 0.04-2.7 ppm; horseradish, 2,000 ppm; black mustard seed, 10,000 ppm NTP, 1982; Ishidate et al., 1988; McGregor et al., 1988 Cecum, colon, and liver Mori et al.

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Grubbs et al. 1995). DC was shown to prevent the development of vaginal and cervical cancers in HPV-16 transgenic mice (Jin et al. 1999). According to Sepkovic et al. (1995), women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia II and III (CINII and CINIII) have lower estrogen metabolites ratios than normal women. Through its action on cytochrome P-450 1A1/1A2, DC is known to alter the pathway of estrogen in both men and women in a manner that decreases the risk of certain tumors (Telang et al. 1992; Stoewsand et al. 1988; Zeligs 1998).

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Milk-free diets or the intake of sulfonamides and other antibiotics may destroy these bacteria Vitamin C: Red and green peppers of all kinds, paprika, parsley, black currants, broccoli, kale, mustard greens, cauliflower, cabbage, chives, lemons, oranges and grapefruits. Vitamin D is created when the ultraviolet rays of the sun activate a form of cholesterol in the skin. Dietary sources include fish-liver oil and fortified milk. Vitamin D is found in milk and milk products. The RDA of vitamin D is 400 IU, which is what the Balches recommend.

Korean scientists studied the effects of garlic, indoles (from cabbage) and germanium on cancer. Liver cancer in rats "was significantly inhibited by treatment with all three compounds," scientists from the Korea Cancer Center Hospital in Seoul reported. Administration of germanium also significantly slowed the development of cancer of the lung and thyroid (14). At Hungary's Semmelweis University researchers found that Ge-132 controls white blood cell activity. Ge-132 by itself was not found to be a destroyer of harmful free radicals.

Other sources, such as seafood, green leafy vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, turnip greens, are generally allowed in the diet, however. • Macrobiotics popularized the use of seaweed in the West. Many such sea products have been shown to contain polysaccharides and other anticancer substances (4). • Macrobiotics uses soy products, such as tofu, and tamari (soy sauce) as seasoning. Studies have shown that soy sauce helps prevent cancer promotion in mice (5, 6). Soybeans are being investigated as anticarcinogens by Mark Messina and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute.

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Best supplement Niacin (may cause flushing) and niacinamide. Helpers Works with other B complex vitamins and chromium. Best taken with food. Robbers Antibiotics, tea, coffee, birth control pills, and alcohol. B5 (PANTOTHENIC ACID) What it does Involved in energy production; controls fat metabolism. Essential for brain and nerves. Helps make antistress hormones (steroids). Maintains healthy skin and hair.

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This may be one reason Asian women, who eat more cabbage, have so much less breast cancer than Western women. "This may be the link between diet and protection against breast cancer," according to Christopher Longcope, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Wooster (Science News, 6/16/90.). Brussels sprouts may also be used to help prevent, and even treat, breast cancer.

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This intensifies the cooking odors of cabbage, broccoli, and brussels sprouts and tends to turn potatoes yellowish. ?Unlined copper pots can be dangerous for cooking or storing acidic foods, or any foods cooked with wine or vinegar, as the foods can absorb this mineral, which is potentially toxic. ?Glass pots might appear hazard free, but the fact that glass lets in light can increase the loss of light-sensitive nutrients, such as vitamins B2 (riboflavin), B12 (cobalamin), B13 (orotic acid), B15 (pangamic acid), and C (ascorbic acid), and folic acid. ?

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For example, ingestion of cabbage and collards decreased lung metastasis in animals injected intravenously with mammary tumor cells (Scholar et al, 1989). Limonene is another example of a non-nutrient compound that inhibits both carcinogenesis and tumor growth. Non-nutritive food constituents apparently have been protecting humans from cancer since the beginning of history. Steinmetz and Potter (1991) hypothesized that in light of the many non-nutrient food components that prevent cancer, cancer may be a disease of maladaption to diets lacking a rich variety of these compounds.

In a German study, organically grown spinach, cabbage, and lettuce contained 59 to 91% more vitamin C (Hilden-brand, 1989). These studies are not adequate to prove that organically grown foods contain higher nutrition, but they do suggest that additional research in this area is warranted. In addition to the potential for providing superior nutrition, organically grown foods also reduce the risk of pesticide exposure.

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Broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower were involved in the "ground floor" discovery that nutrition is linked to cancer. Lee Wattenberg, PhD of the University of Minnesota found in the 1970s that animals fed cruciferous vegetables had markedly lower cancer rates than matched controls. Since then, the active ingredient "indoles" have been isolated from cruciferous vegetables and found to be very protective against cancer.

Crisp Chop Suey 1/2 cup Chinese peas, sliced 1/4 cup each: green and red bell pepper (slice lengthwise thinly, then in half) 1/2 cup celery, diced 1/2 cup carrots, slivered 2 cups cabbage, bite-sized pieces 1 cup bean sprouts, cut 1 Tbs. sesame seeds 1/4 cup almonds, slivered 1 tsp. toasted sesame oil Sweet 'n Sour Ginger Dressing Cut vegetables Chinese style cutting diagonally across the vegetable-in the sizes suggested. Add seeds and nuts. Then toss with last 2 ingredients. Sweet 'n Sour Ginger Dressing 1 Tbs. soy sauce 1 Tbs. honey 3 Tbs. water 1 Tbs. grated fresh ginger 1/2 tsp.

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These range from natural chemical constituents present in garlic, broccoli, cabbage, and green tea, to manmade antioxidants, such as butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and derivatives of retinoic acid. Much about how anticarcinogens act remains to be explained before they can be considered and employed as an effective part of any anticancer strategy. Structure of the Report The results of the committee's deliberations are found in the chapters that follow.

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