Top 10 Foods and Drinks for Cancer Prevention

By Melissa Breyer, Care2 Senior Editor

Cancer is such a staggering epidemic–the sheer number of people affected by the disease is as heartbreaking as it is mystifying. As we are slowly learning more about the causes, we are beginning to learn more about preventive measures.

In terms of the relationship between diet and cancer, this leads us to lists of what not to eat (french fries, sigh), as well as the other side of the coin: What we should eat (artichokes and red wine, yay!).

In the book Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers, 2007) the authors Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth consider the importance of eating specific foods and drinks for cancer protection. Here’s what they suggest:

1. Cruciferous vegetables: Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy and kale. These score high for containing many anti-cancer substances, such as isothiocyanates.

2. Globe artichoke for very high levels of salvestrols.

3. Dark greens, such as spinach and romaine lettuce, for their fiber, folate and a wide range of cancer-fighting carotenoids. Other dark colored veggies, too, such as beets and red cabbage.

4. Grapes and red wine, especially for the resveratrol.

5. Legumes: beans, peas and lentils, for the saponins, protease inhibitors and more.

6. Berries, particularly blueberries, for the ellagic acid and anthocyanosides.

7. Flaxseed, especially if you grind it yourself and consume when fresh, for the essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid, lignans and other “good fats.”

8. Garlic, onions, scallions, leeks and chives, for many anti-cancer substances including allicin.

9. Green tea, for its anti-cancer catechins, a potent antioxidant.

10. Tomatoes, for the famous flavenoid lycopene.

Source: Care2.com

Prune and Walnut really Healthy Cake!

Hey all you people yes I know I haven't been blogging at all recently but I've been doing a lot of really exciting cooking and would absolutely love to share this new super healthy and easy recipe with you all for a nice breakfast muffin or tea time cake. This cake is the kind of stuff that I really want to explore more into - Wholesome and healthy foods. This cake is not calorie free or less in calories but it has more basic and less processed ingredients than your average cake. it provides the right kinds of nutrition in terms of fats, fibre, anti oxidants and is full of wholesome healthy goodness that is just in every pore of this cake.

Ingredients-
120 gm Whole Wheat Flour (roti ka atta)
50 gm Corn Meal (makkai ka atta)
100 gm Olive Oil
70 gm Butter (you can also use only butter if you prefer)
100 gm Castor Sugar (you can use all sugar as well I just use honey to make it healthier)
70 gm Honey
170 gm Pitted Prunes chopped
90 gm Walnuts chopped
1 tsp Soda bi Carbonate
1 pinch Baking Powder
3 eggs - yolks and whites separated
1/2 tsp vanilla essence


Method-
1) Put 3/4th cup water and the soda bi carb and bring to a boil. Switch off the gas and add the prune bits to the water and leave covered

2) Separate the eggs, add vanilla essence to the egg yolks part and whisk the egg whites till stiff

3) Cream the olive oil, butter, honey and sugar together till the mixture looks light and fluffy. If you have a hand beater (with the two whisks) just use that it is the easiest and best). Slowly add the egg yolks mixed with vanilla essence so that you have one creamy lovely

4) Add the walnuts, prunes with all the liquid, whole wheat flout, baking powder, corn meal, and the beaten stiff egg whites and gently fold into the creamed butter sugar mixture

5) Put these into a greased baking tin and take for 1 hour at 180 degrees centigrade or until a toothpick comes out clean

So easy peasy it's really like a basic cake but really delicious and crunchy and sweet sour with the prunes! do let me know when you've tried it and Enjoy!!