Foods that fight Breast Cancer and recurrences

I luckily found out that 1-2 tsp of fresh ginger juiced, helps with heartburn really well. It burns all the way down but in seconds the heartburn is gone and stays gone for 24 hours, at least for me. Thanks Jude for your heads-up about ginger and disgestion.

Cinnamon is in the news this week. A tsp of it will help lower the sugar spike we get when eating sweets or fruit smoothies. Also, it is said that it lengthens the time it takes for food to move out of our stomachs. Sounds like a good natural dieting tool to me. Keep us full longer?

LONDON (Reuters) - Tangerine peel could help in the fight against certain cancers, researchers said on Wednesday.

Human cancer cells, which contain an enzyme called P450 CYP1B1, were destroyed by a compound contained in tangerine peel, Salvestrol Q40, scientists at Leicester School of Pharmacy found.

The findings may offer a new approach to uncovering a treatment for cancers such as breast, lung, prostrate and ovarian cancer, the scientists said.

Medicinal chemist Dr. Hoon L. Tan said: "It is very exciting to find a compound in food that can target cancers specifically.

"Salvestrols may offer a new mechanism of dietary anti-cancer action.

"Indeed, the depletion of salvestrols in the modern diet is due to the fact that many people no longer eat the skin of fruits and this may be a major contributory factor to the increasing incidence of some cancers in the human population."

The breakthrough was being presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference held in Manchester.

But he warned that the research was still in its early days and many tests will be needed before reaching the clinical trial stage, which could take between five and seven years.

The researchers have formed a private company, Nature's Defence Investments, to protect and promote their research, with the potential of designing a natural anti-cancer alternative based on the new technology.

Green Tea Shown To Possess Antitumor Effect In Breast Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071208171411.htm

I don't even want to post this:

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?n=82549-osteoporosis-flavonols

Chocolate linked to weaker bones.  There is no fairness.

I heard on the news Friday that soy and green tea can prevent breast cancer, but what about if your already have breast cancer?

I also heard on the news this morning about chocolate.  They said drink a glass of milk with your chocolate. 

Bubbly,

Of course!  Drink milk with chocolate.  Perfect!  It's better than giving it up totally.

Genistein in soy promotes the growth of an existing tumor.  So I try to look for products that are soyless.

I haven't read the latest study on soy, but it was this that convinced me after our BC dx, soy isn't for us anymore:

Genistein Speeds Growth of Breast Tumors in Mice

Helferich and colleagues used female mice from whom ovaries had been removed so that their hormone levels would resemble those of women past menopause with very little or no estrogen circulating in the blood.

They injected human ER-positive breast cancer cells into the mice. After tumors were established, different groups of mice got low, medium, and high levels of genistein in their diets, while other mice got none.

Over a period of seven months, the tumors grew larger the more genistein was consumed. Tumors of mice getting medium amounts of genistein grew about four times larger than those getting little or none, and tumors of those getting the highest amounts of genistein grew about eight times larger than those getting the least.

Important to Share Information with Doctors, Expert Says

"This is an animal study, and we can't know whether the same effects would be seen in humans," says Marji McCullough, ScD, RD, a nutritional epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society (ACS). "But this study alerts us to the fact that biologically active compounds such as soy phytoestrogens may have adverse effects as well as beneficial ones."

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Soy_May_Fuel_Estrogen_Positive_Breast_Cancers.asp

Hi,

It is a misconception to link all foods that may prevent heart disease or BC with foods that

may prevent BC recurrance. Nor is it appropriate to link all foods that might aid in prevention for one cancer with another. Prostate cancer and breast cancer are not the same. Some work has been done on foods to prevent recurrance in prostate that seem to have some validity- soyfor one.BETH  Other research also been done on lung and colon recurrance. 

The EPA is working for who?  Us?  I get confused about who really is paying them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080223/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pesticide_epa

Farmworkers want pesticide ban hastened

By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press WriterSat Feb 23, 4:55 AM ET

Juan Angulo arrived for work at an eastern Washington apple orchard one day in 1995 and began vomiting. He developed a terrible headache, and his eyes and nose started to run.

The same thing happened to the rest of his work crew, all from exposure to the pesticide azinphos-methyl, Angulo believed.

"To this day, I still experience severe headaches, which I attribute to this poisoning incident," he said in a court declaration last fall.

Citing his case and others, lawyers for the United Farm Workers of America argued in federal court Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to allow the use of the pesticide until 2012 was unconscionable. The EPA did not consider harm to farmworkers and their families, or to rivers, lakes and salmon, they said, and the agency should be forced to reconsider.

"There are workers getting sick," Patti Goldman of the environmental law firm Earthjustice told U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez. "This isn't just hypothetical. There are workers being taken out of the field."

The pesticide, commonly called AZM, was derived from World War II-era nerve gas agents and has been used since the late 1950s.

In 2001, the EPA barred growers from using AZM on two dozen crops, including cotton, cabbage and grapes. But the agency continued to allow treatments on apples, pears, cherries, blueberries, parsley and other plants while it waited for cost-effective alternatives to emerge.

In 2006, the EPA decided to phase out all uses of the pesticide by 2012 - two years later than it had initially proposed.

Cynthia Morris, a Justice Department lawyer who argued on the agency's behalf, told the judge that the short-term benefits of allowing growers to keep using AZM for the next several years outweigh the potential harm. It could cost apple growers nationwide tens of millions of dollars to switch to alternative pesticides more quickly, she said, and in some cases other countries do not allow the import of apples with residue from those alternative pesticides.

Furthermore, Morris added, the later phase-out date led growers to voluntarily take measures to ease the impact of the pesticide until it is phased out, such as imposing buffer zones and training workers to avoid exposure.

She argued that the agency's decision was reasonable, and failed to meet the "arbitrary and capricious" standard for the judge to undo it.

Martinez said he would rule as soon as possible.

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So are we to get trained on how not to get sick when we eat this crap?  Another one, we can't touch this stuff, but it's ok to eat it.

i was 1st diagnosed 7 years ago, i had just started the liver cleansing diet. my tumour dissappeared, and even though it was in my lymph glands, that reduced by 40% in size. my dr's had no idea why this was happening! i also saw a natropath dr in perth, (western australia) who explained everything in black and white. i had the max dose of vit c injections every week. i won!! but it returned 3 yrs later. i decided to go 4 a bilateral mastectomy. now i am living in fear of bone mets. off to get it checked on wed! 3 years ago i read alot about VIT B17. i urge you to look it up.... don't get lazy like i did!!