Health Matters

Prevent breast cancer with foods is possible as our health matters when it comes to all diseases, wouldn’t you say today? I have researching foods and our health for years, the toxins that they contain or possibilities of them and how they are grown. Are they commercially fertilized? are they sprayed with a toxin to keep them beautiful? Are they waxed with chemicals to make them shine and appeal to the eye, instead of for our healthy consumption?

Here are some foods that are healthy for us ladies as well as you, the men. Yes, men get breast cancer also and that is a great concern as well with my readers.

Here’s some foods that I have found that can help us with the great nutrients that they contain and I will try to help those of you and myself included stay away from breast cancers. First let’s talk about the pumpkin at this time of the year when they are just being harvested from those big fields. Yes, we are talking about the healthy benefits of the ‘jack-o-lantern- that you carve for that front porch. Pumpkin, sweet potatoes and some of the squash family are all harvested here in the Midwest now and decorate our yards. They are very fiber-rich with that great source of beta carotene and as you know that is a great protector of our DNA.

Another harvest goodies at this time of year is the apples, of which have lots of vitamins and antioxidants and quercetin which is a protector of our bodies from lung cancers and can help with slowing the prostrate cancer cells of men.

Please don’t leave out the herb of garlic of which I use on a daily basis for keeping my immune system healthy. This amazing herb will fight for our breast cancers and other cancers of our stomach as well. Use garlic in your salads raw, top your soups with it, throw a clove of it into your smoothies, and make a tea of it when you have a sore throat approaching. Keep that immune system operating at its best daily.

Tomatoes are finishing up the season in our garden but they are also on my list of great cancer fighters. I’m sure you have heard of lycopene and its great qualities. Yes, even ketchup is on that list as well as tomato paste, tomato sauce and eating them raw, my favorite way.

Don’t forget to add your healthy teas, both black and the green one for those most needed antioxidants and that call them catechins, another tool to help avoid cancers.

Good sources of another form of antioxidants is found in the different berries like blueberries and blackberries with their anthocyanins, another one to have on our team of cancer fighters. Put some on your oatmeal for breakfast and top those green salads with them for a couple of great ways to improve your diet.

See how all of these can be added to our menus for men and women and our children to help us from breast cancers. Yes, even children can get breast cancers.

Start your own battle against cancer with raw foods and enjoy these all available now in your farmers markets and in your organic foods stores.

Be Healthy.

Irene