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[26 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]

Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer which occurs when a person has inhaled asbestos fibers. These fibers get stuck in the membranes around key internal organs like the heart and lungs. These fibers don’t disintegrate; instead, they spawn cancer.
If you do contract mesothelioma, the doctors will usually tell you that you have months to live and that they can’t do anything for you. This may not truly be the case though. Some mesothelioma patients have survived for years, even though their physicians told them they …

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[23 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]

If you want to combat cancer or prevent it from occurring, you should eat a balanced and healthy diet with a lot of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables contain vitamins and minerals and other healthy compounds which can prevent cancer cells from spreading.
Most of the really good cancer-fighting foods are fruits rich in flavenoids. You can recognize flavenoid rich foods by their deep colour. Berries like blueberries are rich in flavenoids, as are rich red tomatoes and red cabbage and beets. These flavenoids …

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[20 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]

Whether you’re trying to prevent the possibility of cancer or trying to slow down or halt the spread of a cancer, you can benefit from using some natural techniques. One good natural cancer treatment is to eat the best cancer fighting foods. Below is a list of foods which can be used to combat the spread of cancer cells.
Tomatoes contain the flavenoid lycopene, which gives them their color and also has been shown in scientific research to be an effective anti-cancer agent. Blueberries also contain cancer fighting …

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[1 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]

For a very long time up until recently, people had this belief that what we eat on daily basis has not much of an influence or affect in helping to prevent dreadful health issues like cancer. Well, it has been scientifically proven that the food that one eats, the nutrition that one consumes allows preventing different kinds of cancer.
There are plenty of minerals and also vitamins that are known to work on stopping the growth of the tumours. The cancer institute’s that have been studying on the nutrition and cancer …

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[12 May 2011 | No Comment | ]

If you are worried about cancer (and you should be, at least a little; 1 in 7 people die of it these days), then you probably want to try to eat well in order to help prevent it. You may have heard of the alkaline diet and cancer.
What is the alkaline diet? The alkaline diet is based off of research which shows that cancer sells grow more rapidly in an acidic environment and more slowly in an alkaline environment. The diet involves eating foods with an alkaline …