Certain super foods, when paired together, can cut your chances of getting cancer by up to 50%, experts say.
Magnesium is an important, but often overlooked, part of a healthy diet. Foods high in magnesium, such as beets, dates, raisins, and soybeans, help fight a variety of cancers and keep you looking young. If you’re having a hard time getting enough magnesium in your diet everyday consider taking it in supplement form.
Another key ingredient to a healthy diet is folate or folic acid, which also prevents various types of cancer. Folate is found in green, leafy vegetables like spinach and in orange juice. Folate can also be taken in supplement form.
Vitamin D is another cancer fighter easily found in non-fat milk and orange juice. Vitamin D is also produced in our bodies when we have exposure to sunlight. It’s especially important for people living in northern latitudes where there is less sunlight and African-American people who have darker skin to consider taking a vitamin D supplement everyday.
Rounding out our list of cancer fighting super foods is a surprising entry that’s not a food at all: aspirin. Aspirin has long been touted as a wonder drug that can prevent everything from heart attacks to high blood pressure to wrinkles, and it can now add cancer to its list of foes. Because it thins blood and sweeps toxins and fat from your system, two baby aspirin a day can go a long way in preventing cancer.
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Tomatoes are a delicious and easy food to incorporate into your diet. Rich in lycopene, tomatoes help prevent prostate cancer in men, plus they’re chock full of antioxidants to slow the aging process and keep you looking young. Specifically, tomato sauces and tomato paste are the way to go. Tomatoes must be cooked to really release their cancer-fighting properties, and a few tablespoons of concentrated tomato sauce are nutritionally equivalent to pounds of fresh tomatoes. Eating a little olive oil with your tomato sauce is a great idea because this healthful fat helps your body absorb the tomato’s nutrients. Spaghetti, anyone?