Guide To Amazing Cancer-Fighting Foods

Walnuts

While all types of nuts have research to back up their preventative effects against cancer, walnuts have been studied for this purpose more extensively than other types of nuts. Walnuts are known to have a suppressive effect on the growth of certain types of breast cancer. Some forms of breast cancer can grow and spread because of the abundant estrogen receptors on the membrane of the cancer cells. The cholesterol-like molecules contained in walnuts are effective at blocking such receptors on these cells, keeping them from multiplying and spreading further. Walnuts have proven to have a similar effect on cancerous cells that grow in some forms of prostate cancer. Furthermore, walnuts have shown to slow down the growth of some colorectal tumors. A diet rich in walnuts helps to integrate fatty acids directly or indirectly into an affected individual's colonic tumor tissue. Walnuts cause considerable alterations in the miRNA profile expression in the tissue of a localized colorectal tumor. Walnuts help stop new vascularization of the growing tumor tissue, diminishing its supply of blood and stopping further proliferation.