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Eating Habits to Prevent Cancer
Cancer is a dreaded disease that is preventable. According to the World Wide Fund for Cancer Research, 30% of the cases that are detected today are preventable with proper eating habits.
Just as there are elements that represent a risk factor for cancer, such as snuff, there are foods that act as protection. While we must clarify that this does not mean that if we never get sick of cancer, but decreased the risk.
To protect our body against this dreaded disease, doctors say it should take into account the following recommendations:
* Body Fat.
It is important to keep food in not fattening. Overweight and obesity increase the risk of breast cancer (after menopause), colon, kidney and esophagus. Some studies have also linked obesity to cancer of the gallbladder, ovaries and pancreas.
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Vegetarian Diet and Bone Health
This feeding is associated with lower bone mineral density, but no cause for clinical concern. The association between vegetarian diets and bone mineral density is controversial.
The debate centers on the possibility that this type of food results in a lower bone mass, as some studies, compared to other investigations that have found no statistical significance in this relationship.
The issue concerned because BMD is the strongest and most consistent predictor of fractures associated with osteoporosis.
In Western countries, a considerable proportion of the population has adopted a vegetarian diet that includes foods not found in traditional diets as the best for the formation and growth of bones.
The quality and quantity of ingested nutrients (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin D, A, K) and the consumption of other dietary elements that promote or hinder the absorption of minerals that nourish the bone, have a significant imprint on health marrow.
These factors add up to each individual’s genetic predisposition to develop bone disorders.
The latest review on the possible association between diet and bone mineral density, a controversial issue, is a meta-analysis conducted by the Bone and Mineral Research Program Garvan Institute of Medical Research, picked up this October in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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