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Cancer: 30% caused by food, diet and watch as solutions

Three kinds of cancer are thought to be caused by food, or better by bad food habits. The experts have no doubts, and for this reason they advise a correct and healthy diet to prevent this bad disease. The so-called healthy diet can be mostly identified with the Mediterranean diet; but even the time has a role: the experts say in fact that it is important to eat the right food at the right moment. The specialists reckon that the secret is in nature- alchemy, that provides precious substances, able to prevent from cancer. The advice are well known: a little fatty food and sausages, few animal fats and “red” meat, a lot of fruit, vegetable, cereals and fish. But there is a further advice to be taken into consideration: be careful in matching different kinds of food! The scientific director of Regina Elena Institute in Rome- Paola Muti- under_ lines that in the fight against cancer the key word is “synergy” among the different components in food. This means that we must learn to eat in a varied way, but even that the benefits of every single food element are still unknown.
”On this point a recent Italian study published in “ the British Journal of nutrition” – Paola Muti adds –“ has for example put in evidence that the benefits of salad are reinforced by the antioxidant action of the olive oil and vinegar, but they can be further increased if you add in your salad fresh marjoram or some other aromatic herbs. It is for this reason that the relationship between cancer and food is a key- point: this is the message that even the 2008 event “le arance della salute” (oranges for health) wanted to convey (this event was promoted by the Italian association against cancer “AIRC ; on 26thJanuary they delivered oranges in 2700 places in Italy to collect funds for the research. In deed what we eat is extremely important but even when we eat. This is a “golden rule” emphasize the experts: the respect of the natural rhythms and the chrono-biology: in the morning we need more sugar, at lunch low fat food and carbohydrates are advised while the latter should be avoided at dinner. Carbohydrates are usually transformed into fats and they are useless in the evening turning into a risking factor pro-cancer. In other words, if we eat fats in the evening we self-synthesize useless and abundant fats, that turn to be dangerous. Thus we must be careful about food and natural rhythms. This way we get stronger against cancer.





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