Preventing Breast Cancer

Dr. Graham Colditz is a professor at Washington University Medical School where he is the chief of public health sciences and the lead investigator of a National Cancer Institute research center focused on cancer prevention. Dr. Colditz's research shows that breast cancer is a largely preventable disease controlled by lifestyle. By far the most important factor is diet. A whole food plant based (WFPB) diet which is mostly or entirely whole plant foods with little or no animal products or vegetable oils controls cancer development and growth rates even in women with the BRCA 1 and 2 gene mutations. He estimates that 68% of breast cancer will be prevented by starting this lifestyle in childhood and 50% by starting as an adult. He labels milk as an especially dangerous food, and advises an early start on good dietary habits for greater effect and also because peer pressure becomes more important than parental input after age 8 or 9. This is not the advice of one of the writers on diet; this is the advice of "an internationally recognized leader in cancer prevention." 

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Dietary fat and animal proteins control the development and growth of breast cancer in laboratory animals. Excess body weight and higher levels of serum estrogen are also potent breast cancer stimulators. A WFPB diet decreases all these critical factors.

Women with diagnosed breast cancer, even metastatic disease, also do much better on this diet. When cancer cells in a laboratory petri dish are exposed to serum of women with breast cancer who are eating a WFPB diet most are killed; this is not true for serum from those eating the standard high fat and animal protein western diet. Read the story of Ruth Heydrich, a long term survivor of metastatic breast cancer.

allfor-health.blogspot.com/2013/01/interview-with-dr-ruth-heydrich.html

Diet is as important in breast cancer prevention as smoking is in lung cancer. It is similarly critical in prostate and colorectal   cancers.