Description
Book Synopsis Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 35 percent of cancers are potentially avoidable by nutritional modification. These modifications include strategies such as caloric restriction and limitation of specific macro-nutrient groups. However, recent research indicates that what you eat may well be just as important as what you shun when it comes to avoiding cancer, especially colon, breast, and prostate cancers, which have become epidemic in the Western hemisphere.
Nutrition and Cancer Prevention brings together the top experts in nutritive health who present significant evidence that specific dietary micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting cancer, modulating its development, or reducing tumor metastasis. As a way of introduction, the book updates the descriptive epidemiology of the major cancers of the Western world, and then discusses the likely mechanisms of action that occur when certain essential nutrients become diet staples. T
Table of Contents
Introduction. Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Vitamins. Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Minerals. Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Phytosterols. Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Polyphenols. Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Isothiocyanates. Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Saponins., Dietary Components that Protect from Cancer: Specialized Lipids. Dietary Cancer Risk Factors.
