Eat vegetables to prevent, survive cancer

Preventing cancer is a long-term project

In June I wrote about how my husband and I gave up eating animal and dairy products to become vegans when my brother was diagnosed with non-smoker's lung cancer. I reported about The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University, and his son, Thomas Campbell, that a vegan diet protects one from cancer, heart disease, diabetes and some degenerative diseases.

I have recently learned that I have ovarian cancer, which has moved me to learn more about preventing and surviving cancer. Cancer is caused by damage to cells' DNA that makes them reproduce rapidly and recklessly, invading the body's tissue. Everybody has cells that suffer damage, but usually our immune system gobbles them up before they can cause cancer.

I wondered why my vegan diet had not protected me. I learned that conditions that promote cancer begin many months, perhaps years, before a tumor is diagnosed....

Source: Eat vegetables to prevent, survive cancer

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