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An Apple a Day Keeps 5 Cancers Away
Monday, October 4, 2010 8:03 AM
By Sylvia Booth Hubbard
http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/headline_health/apple_a_day_5_cancers_/2010/10/04/354580.html

Fall has arrived, and so has a new crop of fresh, crisp apples. Apples live up to their reputation of "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Many recent studies have shown that a single apple is a powerful cancer-fighter and can reduce the risk of developing several forms of cancer, including breast and lung. So, enjoy fall's bountiful harvest of apples and lower your risk of five cancers at the same time.

1. Prostate cancer
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that quercetin - a flavonoid in apples - may help prevent and treat prostate cancer. A lab study found that quercetin prevented or reduced the growth of human prostate cell cancer cells by blocking androgens, a hormone linked to prostate cancer. "By blocking androgen activity, the growth of prostate cancer cells can be prevented or stopped," researcher Nainzeng Xing told the journal Carcinogenesis. "Our study suggests quercetin may be a potential non-hormonal approach to preventing or treating prostate cancer."

2. Breast cancer
A study of rats at Cornell University found that fresh apple extract slowed the growth of breast cancer tumors. Rats were exposed to a known mammary carcinogen and then fed the human equivalent of one, three, or six apples each day for 24 weeks. Tumors developed in 81 percent of the control rats which were not fed apples. Rats that were given the human equivalent of one, three, or six apples a day had the development of tumors slashed by 17, 39, and 44 percent respectively.
"We not only observed that the treated animals had fewer tumors, but the tumors were smaller, less malignant and grew more slowly compared with the tumors in the untreated rats," Cornell researcher Rui Hai Liu, who has conducted six studies that confirm the cancer-fighting properties of apples, said in a statement

3. Lung cancer
A study at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School of 125,000 Americans found that eating one apple a day reduced the risk of developing lung cancer in nonsmokers by 20 percent. A Finnish study and the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals' Follow-up Study found similar results. A Hawaiian study found that people with the highest intakes of apples and onions - two foods high in quercetin - reduced their risk of lung cancer by 40 to 50 percent.

4. Colon cancer
Several recent studies have found a link between apples and the risk of colorectal cancer. A 2009 study published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention found that eating just one apple a day reduced the risk of colon cancer by 35 percent. Eating more than one apple lowered risk by 47 percent. And a Polish study found that eating one or more apples a day slashed the risk of colorectal cancer by 63 percent.
In addition, a German study found that apples may increase the production of a compound called butyrate that protects against colon cancer.

5. Liver cancer
Rats fed an extract made from apple skins lowered their risk of developing liver cancer by 57 percent. Even though the cancer-fighting nutrients are concentrated in apple skins, the apple flesh also contains significant amounts. One study at Cornell found that treating liver cancer cells with 50 milligrams (half a teaspoon) of apple extract derived from unpeeled apples inhibited the growth of human liver cancer cells by 57 percent. Extract derived from the fleshy part of the apple inhibited cancer cells by 40 percent.

To your health and success
Robert

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in many of the foods we consume every day, including soft drinks, chewing gum, breakfast cereals and jams. Even though it is FDA approved, many dietitians and nutritionists warn against its use, wary of the claim that it can deliver the taste of sugar without any of the health drawbacks.

Official complaints to the FDA about aspartame use include headaches and gastrointestinal problems. Detractors like Dr. Joseph Mercola, author of "Sweet Deception," say that aspartame consumption can actually contribute to weight gain and even cause neurological side effects such as migraines and brain tumors due to a disturbance of the dopamine and serotonin balance.

An aspartame producer has recently rebranded the product under a new name, AminoSweet, which sounds healthy (amino acids are the building blocks of protein), but is it?

Marissa Lippert, a registered dietitian and a New York City nutritionist and author of "The Cheater's Diet," says that although the research is inconclusive regarding the long-term health risks of aspartame, people should think twice about consuming it.

"Saccharin has been linked to cancer," says Lipper. "Artificial sweeteners like aspartame can indeed cause digestive distress (bloating, diuretic effects, diarrhea, etc.). Bottom line: It's still an artificially/chemically processed item."

In her practice, Nourish Nutrition Counseling & Communications, Lippert recommends her clients eschew "fake foods" in favor of an all-natural diet.

If a product is labeled "sugar free," "no sugar added" or "light," it most likely contains aspartame or some type of artificial sweetener. While Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi are obvious culptrits, you may be surprised that some seemingly healthy foods, like most nonfat, flavored yogurts(including some varieties of Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.), contain aspartame.

Even some of the most trusted brands are adding the controversial sweetener to their foods. Smucker's Sugar Free Breakfast Syrup has it, as do the company's light and sugar-free strawberry preserves. Tofutti chocolate fudge treats and Edy's Grand Fat Free No Sugar Added Vanilla Swirl also contain aspartame.

Dieters have long believed that the best way to reduce their waistlines was to eat "light" or artificially sweetened foods instead of those containing sugar. Although it seems counterintuitive, it may actually be more beneficial to weight loss to eat a small amount of real ice cream than the lower-calorie stuff.

"Research is now indicating that sweeteners may actually cause people to gain weight because of a negative metabolic response," says Lippert. "They can also increase sweet cravings and alter our taste buds in terms of our 'threshold' for sweetness. Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, and Splenda is 600 times sweeter."

So if you're a four-can-a-day diet soda drinker, do you have a chance of kicking the aspartame habit?

"I actually help clients to wean themselves off of sweeteners and even the biggest addicts can be successful," says Lippert. "Switch to natural sources of sweetness -- fresh fruit, honey, sugar in the raw, agave nectar. Flavored seltzer and flavored unsweetened iced tea is a great way to swap your diet soda for something other than regular water. Retrain your taste buds to appreciate natural sweetness, and you'll feel and taste a significant difference."

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To your health
Robert