So many forces are converging—the limitations of high-tech medicine are becoming clearer …. intensive lifestyle changes could stop or reverse the progression of even severe coronary atheroscle-rosis …. comprehensive lifestyle changes could markedly improve angina …. comprehensive lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer
Tag Archive: cancer
Park et al. (2011) Multivitamin Use and the Risk of Mortality and Cancer Incidence: The Multiethnic Cohort Study
Multivitamin/mineral supplements … people expect this type of supplement to improve their health. However, the efficacy of these supplements to prevent chronic disease or premature death is not proven, and the National Institutes of Health do not recommend multivitamin/mineral supplements for this purpose …. in the current study, there was no clear decrease or increase in mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases, or cancer among multivitamin supplement users. Moreover, the risk of morbidity from overall or major cancers did not differ between multivitamin users and nonusers
Zhu et al. (2006) A review of recent studies in China on the possible beneficial health effects of tea
Tea has potential in the prevention or adjuvant treatment of several diseases including cancer, cardiovascular diseases and obesity …. green tea drinking decreased gastric cancer by 40% …. protective effect of green tea not only against stomach cancer, but also against chronic gastritis …. among non-smoking women, consumption of green tea was associated with a reduced risk of lung cancer and the risk decreased with increasing green tea consumption …. green tea had a protective effect on oesophageal cancers among alcohol drinkers (risk reduction by 39%) and cigarette smokers (risk reduction by 31%)
Fung et al. (2010) Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: two cohort studies
A vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet is probably healthier than an animal-based low-carbohydrate diet …. Diets that emphasized animal sources of fat and protein were associated with higher all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality, whereas diets that emphasized vegetable sources of fat and protein were associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality …. Both men and women who had higher overall and animal low-carbohydrate scores had higher BMI and were more likely to be current smokers but had lower intakes of fruits and vegetables
Ornish (2009) Mostly plants
“There is a growing convergence of scientific evidence that an optimal diet is mostly plant based, consisting pre- dominantly of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and soy products. A healthful diet is also low in refined carbo- hydrates, saturated fat, and trans fats and high in complex carbohydrates with adequate omega-3 fatty acids.2″
