Cancer
had been noted and proved to be one of the dangerous ailment which had defiled
all solutions to treatment as well as hypothesis and experimental researches of
scientist on how to cure the ailment effectively. This is one of the sickness
that does not have a particular curing drug, but can be controlled biologically
through nutrition approach; It had been discovered that the 80% causes of
cancer are genetic, which means that those that suffers the ailment are prone
to a particular gene which is term as good gene known as oncogene. When you
have this type of gene, and notice that one or two persons suffered the ailment
in your family lineage, especially one’s parents or grandparents, one needs to
seek medical attention and advise on the type of dieting to use and control the
unforeseen effect of the ailment in the near future, just as it had no cure,
prevention is better than cure.
Also,
it had been discovered that those that might have suffered cancer between the
ages of 1 to 40 years are due to hereditary effect while those that suffered it
above 40 years up may be due to dieting habit, dieting causes cancer as well as
controls or heals cancer. How do we come about this? It is good to eat more of
fruits and vegetables which is the main dieting that controls and prevents the
effect of this ailment than depending on junks food and sugary food contents
that help to foster the effect if you are hereditary to it through gene. It had
also been discovered that artificial or refined sugar is enabling agent for
this incurable ailment; Cancer tumor feeds on sugar to grow and it is good that
one should limit on food that are high in sugar contents like alcohol and other
sugary drinking products as well as chemically preserved or canned food
products.
Also,
depending on the type of cancer, dieting is not the only causes of cancer.
Chemicals that have high content of carcinogen which is a pigment that forms
cancer is also responsible for the effects; Carcinogen is a substance that is
responsible for damaging DNA gene as well as enabling or promoting cancer.
Tobacco smoke is a type of carcinogen which causes cancer of the lungs. There
are over 200 types of cancer, and it starts to develop from any body tissue,
just as tobacco smoking affects the lungs and causes cancer, over exposing
one’s skin to the sun may cause a melanoma cancer on ones leg. But the sun
won’t give you lungs cancer as smoking won’t give you melanoma. In a nutshell
cancer can grow from different tissue with different factors responsible for
it. What causes leukemia is not the same to what causes breast cancer. Now just
as we said earlier we have four types of gene and they are:
(1)
Oncogene
(2)
Tumor Suppression
gene
(3)
Suicide gene
(4)
DNA
But
amongst these entire genes, the oncogene is genetically responsible for cancer
effect if not controlled on time. Coming to treatment of cancer, we have
diverse treatments for different types of cancer which may not prove
effectively at the end of the day but the best treatment is prevention at the
earlier stage. But before we dabble into treatment which is not utmost
important now, we are going to see major causes of cancer as listed below:
(1)
Smoking causes
lungs cancer
(2)
Over skin
exposure to sunlight causes melanoma cancer on one’s leg
(3)
The Natural sun
causes skin cancer
(4)
Man made
Radiation causes cancer
(5)
Work place
Hazards like pollution causes cancer
(6)
Asbestos causes
cancer
(7)
Viruses like
(HPV) meaning Human Papiloma Virus causes cervical cancer on women after 25
years of untreated infection in the body, more than 80% of United state
citizens are affected by this virus and it is commonly spreads through sexually
activities, this is also responsible for the cancer of tonsil and esophageal
cancer. HPV has a vaccine for treatment
which is taken three times at
intervals of 6 months in a year.
(8)
There are other
viruses that causes cancer apart from HPV; they causes other type of cancer
like liver cancer which is traceable to Hepatitis B and C virus .
Now having known the causes these cancers, we are
going to know how these genes mentioned above contribute to cancer development
in the body tissues. Now, what causes cancer is mainly the effect of
uncontrolled growth of cells which do not die. There is procedure for a normal
cell to grow, divide and die. The programmed cell death is called apotosis, and
when this process breaks down, cancer begins to form. Comparing it to regular
cell, cancer cells do not experience programmatic death but instead continue to
grow and divide. And this leads to much abnormal cells that grow out of
control. Now, the four types of gene mentioned earlier are responsible for
cells division. And looking at their functions at this stage of cell division
are as follows:
(A)The oncogene
tells the cells when to divide
(B)
The tumor suppression gene tell the cells when not to
divide
(C)
The suicide gene controls apotosis and tell the cell
to kill itself if something goes wrong
(D)DNA repair
genes, it instruct a cell to repair damaged DNA
Now
from the above functions, cancer is formed when a cell’s gene mutations make
the cells unable to correct DNA damage and unable to commit suicide. So in a
nutshell cancer is as a result of mutations that inhibit oncogene and tumor
suppressor gene functions leading to uncontrollable growth.
Also
coming back to treatment and prevention of cancer, just as we said that some
chemically preserved food and sugary food contents causes’ cancer, examples of
these are:
(1)
Micro waved popcorn
(2)
Non organic fruit
that is chemically preserved
(3)
Canned food like
Tomatoes Pate, especially expired ones
(4)
Processed meat
like Sausages, hot dogs, bacon, blogna or pimento loaf
(5)
The excessive
salt and chemical used when processing meat are damaging to health, to include
smoked fish.
(6)
Farmed Salmon
(7)
Potatoes chip
(8)
Hydrogenated oil
example Omega 6 fatty acid
(9)
Food that are
highly salted, pickled or smoked
(10)
Highly processed
white flour
(11)
White flour
(12)
Refined sugar
(13)
Artificial
sweetener
(14)
Alcohol and
sugary drinks
(15)
Excessive Red
meat
Having
known the example of food that can cause cancer, let us proceed to Anti Cancer
diets which are as follows:
(1)
Keep your diets
low in total fat and saturated fats:
(i)
Eat less total
fats which are found in food like milk, butter coconut, cheese etc
(ii)
Eat Right fat
like vegetable fat which comes from plant based fats and known as unsaturated
fats like Avocado peer, olives peanut butter, nuts and seed, vegetable shortening.
Though some plant based fats such as Trans fats are unhealthy, but the ones
mentioned here are healthy. Now eating food that contains healthy vegetable
fats can be a replacement for saturated fats and Trans fats which can help keep
your heart healthy by improving your cholesterol.
(iii)
Don’t eat bad fats: examples are high saturated fat like palm kernel,
palm, Coconut and cotton seed, these are unhealthy Trans fat that are plant
based.
(iv)
Don’t eat hydrogenated fats: Those fats that had been chemically changed from
unsaturated fat to hydrogenated fat. They are potentially carcinogenic and can
cause cancer. Examples are Hydrogenated butter, overheated palm oil or
groundnut oil: excessive heating of oil turns it to chemical which is harmful
to your health.
(2)
Increase your fiber intake: example of food that contains fibers are beans, whole
grain and some fruits like water melon, apple and Banana.
(3)
Eat lots of fruits and Vegetables: The anti cancer substance in fruits and vegetable are
Phenols, indol, Flavonol, Cumines and isothio Cynates which helps to fight
carcinogen.
(4)
An Anti Cancer Salad: Such as vitamin C and E plus beta carotene are anti
oxidant which seems to have synergistic effect when taken together
(5)
Switch from Red
meat to Sea food
(6)
Eat fish and chicken
which decrease risk of Colon cancer
(7)
Switch from
Animal based food diet to plant based food diet
(8)
Eat more Soya
products
(9)
Take one table
spoon of flax seed oil daily.
(10)
Avoid saturated
and hydrogenated oil in your diet.
(11)
To lower the risk
of colorectal cancer, consider taking 500 to 1000 mg of calcium carbonates or
citrate daily.
(12)
Eat diet high in
antioxidants
(13)
Beta carotene can
block the growth of cancerous cell and examples of Beta carotene foods are Pumpkin,
sweet potatoes, carrots, Butter, nuts, winter squash, Broccoli, spinach,
papaya, mango and pink grape.
(14)
Vitamin C fights
big cancer
(15)
Vitamin E lowers
risk of cancer
(16)
A dose of 200 to
400 mg of Vitamin A and E daily to a Colon Cancer patient can lower the risk
for 2 years.
(17)
Cancer
researchers suggest 25% of ground flax seed a day
(18)
Drink less
alcohol
(19)
Take at least 100
to 200 mg of selenium supplement a day to lower the risk of cancer.
Finally,
since we all know that treatment of cancer is not 100% guarantee to the survival
of the affected patients, therefore prevention is better than cure and remains
the key to cancer treatment, though there are other administered treatment like
chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and other therapies which may not prove effective at
the end of the day, but let us learn to abide by seeking the attention of
medical professionals to know the status of our genetic inherited attributes as
well as instructions on how to go about out dieting if we found wanting of
cancer effect based on our genetic
background. Thank you.
Written
by
ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD
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