Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In the past few years, research has indicated that animals fed broccoli and other members of the cabbage family (known collectively as cruciferous vegetables) had lower rates of cancer than those in the control group. Applying the same theory to humans, German scientists discovered that, compared to Americans on the SAD diet, the Japanese suffer significantly lower rates of cancer. The experiments determined that the Japanese had a large percentage of genistein—a phytonutrient derived from soy—in their urine. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  About 25 percent of the population has an inherited aversion to the bitter taste of cruciferous vegetables. Researchers have dubbed these people "supertasters" because they are highly sensitive to certain flavors. Because of self-imposed dietary limitations, most supertasters do not get all the beneficial phytochemicals from their food that they need to maintain optimum health. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  I wonder whether former President Bush has tried it.) cruciferous vegetables contain several natural cancer inhibitors that lower the risk of gastrointestinal and respiratory tract malignancies. In some experiments, animals fed a diet rich in these vegetables and then given cancer-producing chemicals did not develop malignancies.
Too much alcohol can lead to cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, which occasionally progresses to liver cancer. Concomitant heavy drinking and smoking pose a special risk of cancer of the oral cavity, larynx, and esophagus as well. | | Many other constituents of fresh fruit such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) and sulforaphane in vegetables and whole grains may also inhibit the formation of cancer-producing substances. cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cauliflower are also protective, probably because of their high beta-carotene and vitamin C content, other micronutri-ents, and fiber content. In my opinion, antioxidants may protect against cancer too, perhaps because they prevent the cell membranes from being attacked and broken down. | | If the cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and brussels sprouts) or other fruits or vegetables give you gas, as they do many people with (and without) gallstones, you'll need to avoid them too. At the end of this chapter you'll find a list of recommended daily servings of various foods for persons with gallstones. There should be no visible fat in whatever you eat, and you should remove all the skin from poultry. The only fat you should use is monoun-saturated olive or canola oil, and even then no more than 1 tablespoon a day, carefully measured. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Optimal Use and Combining: Combine fresh carrots with cruciferous vegetables for an anti-cancer crudites plate. Carrot sticks make edible utensils for vegan mayonnaise, almond butter spreads, tomato-onion salsa, and fresh guacamole. Chopped raw carrots add crunch to leafy green salads and mix especially well with zucchini and romaine lettuce. Steamed carrots make a tasty side for a baked potato. Refrigerate carrots prior to blending them into juice, and if the taste of fresh carrot juice seems a little strong for the untrained stomach, sweeten the drink with a touch of apple. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Broccoli and the other cruciferous vegetables, so named for their cross-shaped flowers, are the sergeants that recruit new cops, give them their orders, and send them out onto the streets. These vegetables are particularly good at raising levels of the phase 2 rather than phase 1 enzymes, which is important, because increasing phase 1 enzymes without an equal or greater increase in phase 2 enzymes can lead to the production of intermediate compounds that are dangerous if not removed.
"The vast majority of cancer-causing chemicals are not carcinogenic in and of themselves," Dr. Talalay said. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is also about 25 percent protein and one of the cancer-preventive* cruciferous vegetables. Cauliflower can be eaten raw with dips and steamed or cooked with other vegetables. Curried in eastern Indian cooking is a very tasty way to eat cauliflower.
Flowering Vegetables
Cucumbers Pumpkins
Eggplants Squashes
Peppers Tomatoes
These plants are many, mainly growing on small bushes and vines. Each one that I will discuss here has many different varieties. The flowering vegetables are botanically like fruits in that they carry the plant's matured seeds for the next generation. |
Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts |  Graham's find that people eating more cruciferous vegetables have less chance of colon cancer. The studies came from Israel, Greece, Japan, and Norway, as well as the United States, and most frequently mention cabbage, along with kohlrabi, sauerkraut, brussels sprouts, and broccoli.
Other population surveys add cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, rectum, prostate, and bladder to the malignancies possibly prevented by the large cruciferous family.
Where will it all end? Dr. | | In several surveys, cruciferous vegetables corne out tops in food preferred by those least likely to have such cancers. Norwegians, who regularly eat more of their calories in cauliflower (as well as cabbage, broccoli, and brussels sprouts), were found, in a recent investigation, to have fewer and smaller precancerous polyps of the colon.
When laboratory animals eat cauliflower and then are given powerful carcinogens such as nitrosamines, they do not as readily develop cancers as those fed no cauliflower. That's what Dr. Lee Wattenberg found. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
See book keywords and concepts |  Sulforaphane is produced from sulforaphane glucosinolate via the action of the enzyme myrosinase (thioglucoside glucohydrolase), an enzyme present in cruciferous vegetables that is activated upon maceration of the vegetables.
Sulforaphane is also classified as an isothiocyanate. Its molecular formula is C6H11NOS2, and its molecular weight is 177.29 daltons. It is also known as 4-methylsulfinylbutyl isothiocyanate and (-)-l-isothiocyanato-4(R)-(methylsulfi-nyl) butane. Sulforaphane glucosinolate (glucoraphanin) is also known as 4-methylsufinylbutyl glucosinolate. | | Glucosinolates are beta-thioglucoside-N-hydroxysulfates and are primarily found in cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, broccoli sprouts, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cauliflower sprouts, bok choy, kale, collards, arugula, kohlrabi, mustard, turnip, red radish and watercress). Young broccoli sprouts and young cauliflower sprouts are especially rich in glucoraphanin.
Sulforaphane may have cancer chemopreventive activity. However, glucosinolates themselves typically have low anticancer activity. |
Bill Gottlieb
See book keywords and concepts |  Juice Therapy
Many people with intestinal problems are deficient in vitamin K, found in dark green lettuce and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and kale, says Cherie Cdbom, M.S., a certified nutritionist in Kirkland, Washington, and coauthor ofJuicing for Life. She dso advises those with diverticular disease to load up on beta-carotene, which is believed to help heal damaged intestinal tissue.
Juice blends such as Calbom's Alkdine Cocktail provide a healthy dose of both nutrients. To prepare, says Calbom, juice three carrots, three celery ribs and one-fourth of a head of cabbage. | | Some babies won't drink milk from mothers who eat a lot of cruciferous vegetables."
Herbal Therapy
Fennel is a well-known folk remedy that can help first-time mothers increase their milk production, says San Francisco herbalist Jeanne Rose, author of Jeanne Rose's Modern Herbal and several other herb books. "We don't really know why it works—it may stimulate hormone production—but it does help get the milk flowing." She recommends starting each day by drinking a cup of fennel seed tea. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
See book keywords and concepts | | It is naturally found in some vegetables and fruits, including cruciferous vegetables, bean sprouts and apples. D-glucarate may have cancer-chemopreventive activity.
D-glucarate is also known as D-saccharate. D-glucarate, in the form of its calcium salt, calcium D-glucarate, is marketed as a nutritional supplement. The molecular formula of calcium D-glucarate is GsHsCgOs, and its molecular weight is 248.20 daltons.
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
MECHANISM OF ACTION
The mechanism of D-glucarate's possible anticarcinogenic activity is not entirely clear. | | These oligosaccharides are widely found in legumes and cruciferous vegetables, including beans, peas, broccoli, brussels sprouts and cabbage. These carbohdydrates are gas productive in some. Hydrolysis of melibiose yields D-galactose and D-glucose; hydrolysis of raffinose yields D-galactose and sucrose; hydrolysis of stachyose yields D-galactose and sucrose; and verbascose yields D-galactose, D-glucose and D-fructose. The activity of alpha galactosidases is expressed in galactose units or GalU. A tablet of alpha-galactosidase typically contains 150 GalU. | | Indole-3-carbinol is produced from indole-3-gluco-sinolate via the action of the enzyme myrosinase (thiogluco-side glucohydrolase), an enzyme which is present in cruciferous vegetables and activated upon maceration of the vegetables.
The possible anticancer activity of substances such as I3C was recognized by the Roman statesman, Cato the Elder (234-149 BC), who in his treatise on medicine wrote: "If a cancerous ulcer appears upon the breasts, apply a crushed cabbage leaf and it will make it well." Crushing a cabbage leaf would convert indole-3-glucosinolate to I3C, among other reactions. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
See book keywords and concepts |  The chemical groups suggested by the NCI as conveying some of this activity include allyl sulfides in garlic and onions, phytates in grains and legumes, lycopene, limonoids, glucarates and related terpenes, carotenes and flavonoids in citrus, lignans in linseed2 and soya, isoflavones in soya, saponins in legumes, indoles, isoth-iacyanates and dithiolthione in cruciferous vegetables, ellagic acid in grapes and other fruit, phthalides and polyacetylenes in umbelliferous vegetables. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Tomatoes are the very popular "fruit of the vine" that were once thought to be poison-
* See the Cancer 'Prevention program in Part Four for a further discussion of the cruciferous vegetables. ous. There was also a question as to whether they were a fruit or a vegetable until the United States Supreme Court ruled that they are vegetables. Actually, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers are all members of the nightshade family of plants, which are thought to be possible joint irritants in arthritis. Potatoes and tobacco are also in the nightshade family. |
Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts | | Wattenberg, since the early 1970s, had been feeding small amounts of cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and turnips) to rats and mice, injecting them with well-known carcinogens, and watching to see if they developed cancer or had metabolic changes in organs that would block the formation of cancer. Many did not develop cancer; they were oddly protected by the vegetables. "Interesting, but ..." mused his colleagues.
Then in the May 1978 issue of Cancer Research, Dr. Wattenberg hammered home the implications. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | These are one of the cruciferous vegetables recently known for their ability to reduce cancer potential. Even though they are not many people's favorite vegetable because of their peculiar taste (sulfur) and the fact that they seem to be gas producing, they are definitely loaded with nutrition. They were always fascinating to me in the way they grow and by their miniature replication of cabbage.
Brussels sprouts are high in vitamins A and C, folic acid, and fiber and fairly high in calcium, sulfur, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and iron. | | Include the cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower, in the diet. Their actions are not known exactly, but these foods are thought to help prevent cancer.
Minimize the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Alcohol increases the risks for certain cancers, which are even more liable to occur in those who smoke.
Avoid the consumption of salt-cured, smoked, and nitrate-treated foods. Nitrates and nitrites can form nitrosamine, a carcinogen, in the digestive tract. | | Vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, and selenium, plus the plant sterols and antioxidant phenolic compounds like bioflavonoids from foods such as berries and citrus fruits, all seem to be beneficial factors. The cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and cabbage, seem to have other factors such as sulfhydryl-containing molecules besides the fiber that may protect against the development of cancer.
Cancer of the breast and a high-fat diet have been shown to be related for some time. It is thought that saturated fats generate more cholesterol and higher estrogen levels in women. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  I tell her that some foods, particularly soy products and the cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage, seem to be anticarcinogenic; and that vitamins E and C and beta carotene and selenium—the antioxidants—have in some studies been shown to be useful in preventing or slowing the growth of cancer. I suggest she discontinue eating sugar, caffeine, and red meat, decrease her intake of fat, and begin to exercise for at least forty minutes a day. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Some diet enthusiasts heroically stuff themselves with granola, fruit, salad, beans, nuts, and healthy cruciferous vegetables. As a result, flatulence has made major inroads among the health-conscious. (Products like Beano, found in health food stores and pharmacies, can help with this side effect.) Thus, emphasize fiber, but in moderation, each according to his or her capacity. Don't be a fiber fanatic.
Keep It Fresh and Organic
When selecting fruits, vegetables, and prepared foods like baby foods, insist on organic products. | | Vegetables contain many cancer-preventive chemicals, especially the cruciferous vegetables: cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, turnips, and cauliflower. Mixed carotenoids from vegetables like carrots are also important for health.
• Add calcium. Calcium has an important role in colon-cancer prevention. Many fruits and vegetables are high in calcium. Calcium combines with bile and harmful fatty acids, inactivating them until they are excreted.
• Add nutrients. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Eat more cruciferous vegetables (organically grown is preferable). Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels
Rotate foods to avoid allergic/sensitivity reactions. Eating most foods only every three or four days helps reduce this potential.
Eat simple meals. This allows better digestion and utilization and makes it easier to isolate any food reactions. Food-combining is a beneficial practice.
Use a pulse test to see whether food reactions occur. Check the pulse before eating and again ten and twenty minutes afterward. |
Dr. Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  You want to include plenty of fresh organic vegetables. cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, are very important for their immune-enhancing properties. You want onions and garlic, the poor man's cure-all.
"Choose from a wide assortment of whole foods. Don't eat the same few over and over again. In this weakened state you can develop allergic responses to the same foods consumed in large amounts. Eating different foods will insure that you get a variety of nutrients, and that will keep you from developing allergic responses. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The most common offenders: cow's milk, onions, cruciferous vegetables (e.g., broccoli, cauliflower, or cabbage), and chocolate.27 The solution is to avoid these foods, especially during the first four months of breast-feeding.
Stomachaches in older children are similar to irritable bowel syndrome in adults and are treated in much the same way by pediatricians. Avoiding problem foods, having more soothing foods, and using peppermint oil can all be effective.
DIVERTICULAR DISEASE
Diverticuli are small pouches that form in the wall of the large intestine. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Eating large amounts of cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and Brussels sprouts, carbohydrates such as crackers, dates and jellies and foods high in pectin such as apples increases the effects of acetaminophen.
Aspirin and Similar Drugs (Salicylates)
Aspirin (Bayer, St. |
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