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You don't need supplements to prevent cancer — look to the food you eat every day to pack in all the healthy nutrients you need.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Berries
Spices
Sources of isothiocyanate
Watercress
Green tea
Sources of folate
Brazil nuts
Omega-3-rich fish
Garlic
Asian mushrooms
Apples
Flaxseed
Broccoli sprouts
Macadamia nuts

Step 1: Pick some blackberries

Pick up some blackberries; they contain twice the antioxidant content of blueberries. Strawberries, cranberries, and raspberries are cancer-fighters, too.

Step 2: Spice up your life

Curry lovers, rejoice! Turmeric, the spice that gives the popular Indian dish its yellow hue, inhibits the development of cancer. Ginger runs a close second, followed by cinnamon.

Step 3: Eat your broccoli

Eat your broccoli. It contains isothiocyanate, a compound that fights several cancers. While Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, and arugula also have ITCs, broccoli is king because it has a particularly potent kind called sulforaphane.

Tip: Broccoli sprouts have the highest concentration of sulforaphane.

Step 4: Eat & drink your greens

Munch on watercress and drink green tea. Both increase the amount of cancer-fighting antioxidants in your blood, and watercress protects your DNA from changes that can trigger cancer.

Step 5: Enjoy asparagus

Enjoy a bunch of asparagus; it contains the B vitamin folate, which may reduce the risk of several cancers. Other good sources of folate are orange juice, lentils, spinach, peanuts, and broccoli.

Step 6: Go nuts

Go nuts — as long as they're Brazil nuts. They contain selenium, which fights cancer cells. Go for the unshelled ones, which have more selenium. But limit yourself to one large or two small freshly-shelled nuts per day, as too much selenium is toxic.

Tip: Macadamia nuts contain almost as much selenium as Brazil nuts.

Step 7: Order the fish

Eat fish a few of times a week. An Italian study found that people who eat fish twice a week reduce their risk of developing several cancers by 30% to 50%. Go with Omega-3-rich fish like salmon, sardines, mackerel, and tuna.

Step 8: Reek of garlic

Indulge in garlicky foods. Fans of this pungent bulb have a lower risk of stomach and colon cancer because cooked garlic inhibits cancer cells from growing.

Step 9: Don't fear fungus

Consume more Asian mushrooms — in lab tests, shitakes repressed cancer cell growth. Also try maitake, zhu ling, enoki, and red reishi mushrooms.

Step 10: Eat an apple a day

An apple a day may keep the oncologist away. Studies have found that when pulverized apple skins were placed in a petri dish with colon cancer cells, the cells' growth was inhibited by an impressive 43%. So don't peel before eating!

Step 11: Fill up on flax

Incorporate flaxseed into your diet. In a Canadian study, women diagnosed with breast cancer who ate a daily flaxseed muffin for 40 days showed a statistically significant reduction in the size of their tumor compared with a control group.

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  • Vitamin b17 prevents cancer, it's rare to. It's a filthy disease, seen my dad suffer on it for 7 years, evantually he's hart stopped because of the medications they gave him. Prevent it and don't trust what they tell u in the hospital if u get it. Because often people die on the "cures" they have for the regular person who has it instead off the cancer itself.

  • I shit I don't eat any of this I'm gonna die!!!!!!

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  • ok she lost me at asparagus no way in the world ill eat tht lol

  • Apples yaa i had an apple once :3

  • It really is sort of funny watching all of these vids at this moment when I'm finally not obese any more - my magic pill is DietOramy food regimen regime (search Google) - that thing seriously forced me to be transform my body, overall health as well as my very existence.

  • Presentation is everything and this vid! (?)!

  • RAW KALE is step ONE>...Sea Kelp step two....for iodine...it regulates the thyroid when you eat foods like Kale.

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  • Itho... whaaaah

  • I already eat these, so I'm good :)

  • YAY! :)

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