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    Food and Cancer Prevention
    Food and Cancer Prevention
    Food and Cancer Prevention
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    Food and Cancer Prevention

    By Andrew Sparke

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    An exploration of foods which help cancers develop and foods which reduce cancer risk - a plain English nutritional guide

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateDec 13, 2016
    ISBN9781911310341
    Food and Cancer Prevention
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    Andrew Sparke

    A lawyer and retired local government Chief Executive, Andrew Sparke has reinvented himself as a writer and indie publisher. He owns and manages APS Publications, a vehicle for fiction, poetry, food, travel, sport, erotica, music, photography, health and spirituality, which publishes other indie authors as well as his own work. News and more information is available online at andrew.sparke.com Two novels 'Abuse, Cocaine and Soft Furnishings' and 'Copper Trance & Motorways' are available. A third entitled 'Anger Limerence & Fault Lines' is in preparation.

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      Food and Cancer Prevention - Andrew Sparke

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      FOODS TO MINIMISE OR AVOID

      Sugar ~

      White Flour ~

      Processed Meats

      Red Meat

      Farmed Salmon

      Cooking Oils

      ...Non-Organic Fruit and Vegetables

      Canned Tomatoes

      Genetically Modified Organisms

      Diet Foods

      Fizzy Soft Drinks

      Alcohol

      Salted Snack Foods

      FOODS TO EMBRACE OR MAXIMISE

      Tomatoes

      Folates

      Cruciferous Vegetables

      Mushrooms

      Berries

      Grapes

      Omega-3 Fatty Acids

      Garlic

      Turmeric

      FINAL WORD

      INTRODUCTION

      We all know something about proper nutrition. The media ensures that’s the case. But the fact is that as a species, human beings have both fatalistic and stubborn streaks. We often put short-term gratification ahead of our long-term best interests and nowhere is this more obvious than in our approach to food and diet. The trouble is that nobody really has a strong enough incentive to help us do what we should. The food industry in first world countries like the UK and US has enormous clout with our governments as mass employers and heavy duty taxpayers and they lobby very effectively on the whole against legislation to improve the quality of the nation’s health and to reduce obesity. After all so much of their profits are secured by hooking consumers onto highly processed foodstuffs with addictive flavours created by added sugars and salt. All of which means that if we want to

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