Red grapes, strawberries, soybeans, dark chocolate, oranges, and green tea are among the foods with the ability to prevent blood vessel growth and thus slow the spread of cancer.
‘What we eat is really our chemotherapy three times a day’
Dr. William Li, M.D., president and medical director of The Angiogenesis Foundation, which focuses on the connection between blood vessel growth and aggressive cancers.
There are 11 FDA-approved drugs that inhibit growth of blood vessels that sustain cancers, but Li pointed out that there are a number of foods and beverages that could offer substances that accomplish the same thing — and could help prevent cancer.
“Men who consume two to three servings of cooked tomatoes per week have a 40 to 50 percent reduction in risk for prostate cancer,” he said.
Go shopping today and bring home these cancer fighting foods! Be sure to choose organic and chemical free, fresh and unprocessed foods to avoid exposure to cancer causing chemicals and insure the highest nutritional value.
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