In 1998, at the university of California, Los Angeles. A surprising experiment has been conducted in searching the serum for cancer patients. Researchers drew blood samples from a group of men who had been following a low-fat diet and exercising regularly for several years. They also drew blood samples from overweight men who were not following any diet or exercise program.

They then added portions of each man’s blood serum to test tubes containing standardized prostate cancer cells. It turned out that serum from men on the low-fat diet and exercise program slowed cancer cell growth by 49 percent, compared to serum from the other men.

The changes in diet and exercise had caused the amount of testosterone, estrogen, and other components in the blood to change so dramatically that the effect on cancer cells was obvious right in the test tube.

The effect occurs quickly. The research team found cancer-inhibiting power within as little as eleven days after beginning a low-fat diet and exercise regimen. Cutting down on fat is an important first step in preventing cancer and in surviving it if it has been diagnosed.

This report is very interesting to you right? So the question is how do we go about it?
The easiest way is to build your meals from foods that are naturally low in fat and to use cooking methods that don’t require you to add fats or oils.
You can start build your own meal planning by reading the rest of my blog. :)

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For those whose suffer cancer, there some good news for you: :)
Cancer research has bears out a major effect of diet, not only on cancer prevention, but also on cancer survival.

For example: Breast cancer patients who follow lower-fat diets do tend to live substantially longer. Researchers at the State University of New York in Buffalo tracked the diets of 953 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. They then followed them to see who did well and who did not. The results were striking.

The risk of dying at any point in time increased by 40 percent for every 1,000 grams of fat the women consumed per month. To see what this means in practical terms:

If you were to add up all the fat in a typical American diet over the course of a month and compare it to the amount of fat in a low-fat, pure vegetarian diet, the two would differ by approximate 1,500 grams of fat each month. If the study’s findings hold, that would correspond to a 60 percent increased risk of dying at any point in time for patients following a typical American diet.

Several other studies have found much the same thing: Women with breast cancer who eat fattier foods love meats, dairy products, and fried foods, succumb more frequently than do those whose diets are based on the lower-fat choices—vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans.

Frightening as this sort of finding may be, it shows us a path toward reducing the need for further treatment and improves the odds of living a life free of the tolls cancer can take.

Similar findings have emerged regarding prostate cancer. Men on healthier diets which rich in vegetables, fruits, and other low-fat foods from plant sources likely to develop cancer in the first place and,if cancer does strike, more likely to survive it.

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Well, somehow i have found a 2003 study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute which mentioned that when girls aged 8 to 10 reduced the amount of fat in their diet(even very slightly), their estrogen levels were held at a lower and safer level during the next several years.

When the girls increased intake of vegetables,fruits, grains, and beans and reduced intake of animal-derived foods,the amount of estradiol (a principal estrogen) in their blood dropped by 30 percent, compared to a group of girls who did not change their diets.

The same phenomenon occurs in men. Men have estrogen in their blood, although much less than women have and cancer researchers have long suspected that both estrogen and testosterone (the “male hormone”) play roles in prostate cancer risk.

But as men cut the fat from their diets, the amounts of both estrogen and testosterone tend to fall. Don’t worry ,this change does not make a man any less masculine. :)
But it may well reduce the hormonal stimulus for prostate cancer growth.

Because of these and related findings, many researchers have suggested that steering clear of meat, dairy products, fried foods, and other fatty fare may reduce cancer risk.

However, it is important to understand that in order to reduce cancer risk or effectively change its course, diet changes have to be significant. Studies have shown that modest diet changes do little or nothing. Indeed, large studies of American women have shown that moderate variations in their fat intake make no difference in their breast cancer risk. The best evidence suggests that, to be effective, diet changes have to be fairly profound.

Nonetheless, research bears out a major effect of diet, not only on cancer prevention, but also on cancer survival. Breast cancer patients who follow lower-fat diets do tend to live substantially longer. Researchers at the State University of New York in Buffalo tracked the diets of 953 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. They then followed them to see who did well and who did not. The results were striking. The risk of dying at any point in time increased by 40 percent for every 1,000 grams of fat the women consumed per month.

To see what this means in practical terms:
If you were to add up all the fat in a typical American diet over the course of a month and compare it to the amount of fat in a low-fat, pure vegetarian diet, the two would differ by approximate 1,500 grams of fat each month. If the study’s findings hold, that would correspond to a 60 percent increased risk of dying at any point in time for patients following a typical American diet.

Conclusion:
The risk of dying at any point in time increased by 40 percent for every 1,000 grams of fat the women consumed per month.

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I have read an interesting article which mentioned there are many teams of researchers around the world have studied the health of various populations around the world, which hoping to tease out the causes of cancer and ways to prevent it. The interesting is they have found that people
following plant-based diets tend to have strikingly low cancer rates.

In rural Asia and Africa, for example, traditional diets are based on rice or other grains, starchy vegetables, fruits, and beans, and people eating these diets generally avoid the disease. When it does strike, they also seem to have better survival.

When these populations trade their traditional diets for a menu based on Western foods—either because they have migrated or because fast-food restaurants and other Western food purveyors have come to them—their cancer rates promptly change.

Here some of case study on how diets change can affect the cancer rates:
In Japan, dramatic diet changes began after World War II. Traditional rice dishes were gradually replaced with hamburgers. Dairy products, which had been almost unknown in Japan, became popular. Carbohydrate intake fell, and fat consumption soared. Soon, cancer rates began to rise, as did the toll of obesity, heart problems, and other diseases. In this case, fatty foods boost the hormones that promote cancer. Specifically, diets rich in meat, dairy products, fried foods, and even vegetable oils cause a woman’s body to make more estrogen. Then,that extra estrogen
increases cancer risk in the breast and other organs that are sensitive to female sex hormones.


You may wonder what is estrogen, right?
Estrogen is hormone that makes things grow. As an young girl develops a mature figure, she experiences estrogen’s ability to stimulate the growth of breast tissue. The hormone also thickens the lining of the uterus every month as a woman’s body prepares for the possibility of pregnancy.
Estrogen not only makes normal tissues grow. It can also make cancer cells grow. When researchers add a bit of estrogen to breast cancer cells in a test tube, they multiply rapidly. That why women is tend to be breast cancer victimes that a man.
In medicane treatment for breast cancer, reducing estrogen’s effects by using drugs, like tamoxifen, in order to block estrogen’s activity.

Diets also play a roll in influence estrogen’s effect, When a woman begins a low-fat diet, the amount of estrogen in her blood drops almost immediately. In a matter of weeks, the amount in her bloodstream drops by 15 to 50 percent, depending on how low in fat her diet. She will still have more than enough estrogen for fertility, but she will nonetheless have less estrogen than before. From the cancer prevention standpoint, that’s a good thing. It means there will be
less stimulus for cancer cell growth. :)

As conclusion, Fatty foods boost the hormones—estrogen and testosterone—that promote cancer.

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