Six good eating habits that will help prevent cancer

[Zukin]

This probably isn't new to many people here, but these studies are still pretty cool:

Six good eating habits that will help prevent cancer - MarketWatch

The American Institute for Cancer Research has released these eight guidelines for avoiding cancer. The last six are eating related:

1. Be as lean as possible within the normal range of body weight
2. Be physically active as part of everyday life
3. Limit consumption of "energy-dense foods," foods that are high in calories, fat and sugar. Avoid sugary drinks.
4. Eat mostly foods of plant origin, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans
5. Limit intake of red meat and avoid processed meat
6. Limit alcoholic drinks to one per day for women, two per day for men
7. Limit consumption of salt. Avoid moldy grains or legumes
8. Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet alone, without dietary supplement

[openeyes]

One eating habit I'd emphasize is: chew your food at least 30 times. Very basic, but it's amazing how few people follow it. Much of digestion, particularly with carbs, takes place in the mouth. Also, eating more slowly helps one feel full before eating quite as much.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by openeyes

One eating habit I'd emphasize is: chew your food at least 30 times. Very basic, but it's amazing how few people follow it. Much of digestion, particularly with carbs, takes place in the mouth. Also, eating more slowly helps one feel full before eating quite as much.

Really???!

Uh-oh, I tend to chew, like, between zero and one times.

Putting your face over your place and shoveling the food in is, uhh, more efficient..

[openeyes]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

Really???!

Uh-oh, I tend to chew, like, between zero and one times.

Putting your face over your place and shoveling the food in is, uhh, more efficient..

30 is an arbitrary number, I tend to chew until the food is nearly liquid, which with some foods may be less than 30, and with others much more. Anyone curious about the justification for doing so may benefit from this article:

WHFoods: Does the number of times I chew my food impact my digestion?

[The David]

If the food is solid, I tend to chew until it's in a few pieces.

[rrandolph]

Good tips!

Here are some rules I got from one of my health practicioners:

Rules Of The Stomach

[It can be challenging to stick to the following guidelines but your dedication will be rewarded with better digestion and superior health.]

1. Fluids alone (no more than 4 oz. of fluid with a meal, or for two hours after a meal).
2. No coffee at meals (wait for 1.5-2 hours after or 1 hour before eating).
3. No milk with meals (wait for 1.5-2 hours after or 1 hour before eating).
4. Fruits and melons alone (wait for 1.5-2 hours after or 1 hour before eating).
5. Small meal is better. Quality of nutrition, not quantity.
6. Eat slowly. Savor, enjoy, rejoice, and celebrate the meal.
7. Eat for nutrition, not for stimulation. Eat when hungry, not when bored.
8. Rest comfortably after eating for at least 35 to 45 min to maximize stomach function.
9. Make and eat food with love and kindness, no violent or negative emotions.
10. No antacids.
11. Do not sleep for at least 3 hours after eating.

Additional Benefits for the Small Intestine (Secrets For A Long Life)

1. One large (10 oz.) glass of weak grapefruit (or other citrus) juice first thing in the morning, do not eat for 30 minutes afterwards.
2. Exercise daily, for 15 minutes minimum.
3. Yoga once a day, the back bend is best.
4. Small amounts of pineapple or papaya are OK with a meal.
5. Avoid overeating and excess snacking; let the colon rest during the day.
6. Avoid eating processed sugars and foods.
7. Avoid eating the same foods ever day. Rotate foods.
8. Avoid eating too many potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tobacco all of these atropinus belladonna type foods are hard on the small intestine.
9. Do Not Smoke.
10. Make soft fiber and hard fiber a daily addition to your meals.
11. When you need to defecate, do so. Do not over repress the urge. If you have to, use an enema as soon as you can after.

The stomach is an important part of our anatomy. Food entering our mouths must be properly prepared for digestion. After being chewed and masticated by the mouth, the food is now sent to the stomach for further processing. The stomach mixes the food in an acid bath for further break-up of the nutrients. When the stomach acid starts to shift toward alkaline (about 5.5 pH), the pylorus valve at the base of the stomach opens and the food is passed along to the primary digestive organ, the small intestine.

Nature has provided us with a nervous system that regulates this process. This nervous system is designed to prefer muscle action over digestion. So, if a threat or stress comes to us after a meal, such as a lion attack, our body will shift its energy from digestion to the muscles, and we can survive by running away. In our present society, we have few lions, but our nerves can still stop digestion just as easily.

When we allow the stomach to empty its contents prematurely, the small intestine is overburdened. The food is not properly prepared for digestion. Then, we get an increase in large undigested proteins and large undigested fats that can be absorbed into the lymphatic system. This will enter the free fatty acid and amino acid pool and either clog up the lymphatic system or be used to make cells, cells which will now be made of poor quality parts. It is not much of a problem if we circumvent the stomach now and then, but for some, this becomes a way of life.

Constant use antacids, too much liquid with meals, coffee or milk all empty the stomach too early. When the stomach empties, there is a release of CCK, a hormone which causes slight anti-depression or euphoria. This and the release of the stuffy stomach feeling intensify the addictive quality of the effect. But the long-term effects on nutrition are very detrimental. These rules of the stomach maximize nutrition.

Observing the rules of the stomach can be the key to weight loss and the healing of a host of other diseases. We are seeing more and more evidence of what good nutrition can do. But it is not just what we eat that is important, but what we absorb. Even the best meal or nutrition can result in inappropriate nutrition if we violate the rules of the stomach.

Food combining is just part of the answer. Another part is that different foods have to be eaten at different times for stomach digestion. Failure to follow this rule will cause the stomach to open prematurely.

When the stomach is weak the signs will be craving fluids with a meal, bloating after a meal, itching skin (especially of the rectum), belching, and gas. It will be difficult to digest raw vegetables. You must work slowly, day by day building up the stomach by taking some vegetables as juice, maybe even very dilute juice, and slowly increasing the amount till your stomach develops the strength to process your food properly. The nutrient content of fruits and vegetables is immense, and being able to break up the nutrients and stimulate absorption is needed for complete health and recovery.

The addictive quality of this problem is seen as our society increasingly breaks the rules of the stomach. The greater your disease or especially if your disease is critical the more you will need to observe the rules of the stomach. This is a must for proper healing.

[escapee]

5. Limit intake of red meat and avoid processed meat

THe only problem with red meat is when people use ruined vegetable oil to grill the meat under high heat, process it with tons of chemicals/heat or the the meat happens to contains high level contaminants such as pesticide, hormone, heavy metal, dioxin and etc. Otherwise, Red meat in its natural and organic form is a perfect health food. In another word, Red meat cannot be the cause of cancer.

the unpublished Havard's data : Read meat and cancer link inconclusive

STATS.org - Harvard’s Inconvenient Data About Diet and Cancer[quote]

And now it turns out that another study, the largest ever to examine the link between colon and rectal cancer and red meat consumption with 725,258 subjects, found no association between higher red meat consumption (including processed meat) and a higher colorectal cancer risk.

The study, “Meat and fat intake and colorectal cancer risk: A pooled analysis of 14 prospective studies,” by Eunyoung Cho, and Stephanie A. Smith-Warner for the Pooling Project of Prospect Studies of Diet and Cancer Investigators, was abstracted in 2004. But it has never been published. And now two senators from a state where beef is a major industry are wondering why.

On September 25, a study of 756,217 men and women found that eating fruits and vegetables was not associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer. The online publication of this study also appears to come too late for inclusion in the WCRF report, although, it should be noted that some earlier studies have not found positive associations with high fruit and vegetable intake and lower cancer risks.