Researchers have reported over the past year that nuts offer a wide range of health benefits — from helping fight the pre-diabetic condition known as metabolic syndrome to preventing age-related blindness and lowering breast cancer risk. Now there’s even more good news about nuts,eating a handful of pistachios daily may protect you from lung cancer.

It is known that vitamin E provides a degree of protection against certain forms of cancer. Higher intakes of gamma-tocopherol, which is a form of vitamin E, may reduce the risk of lung cancer. Pistachios are a good source of gamma-tocopherol. Eating them increases intake of gamma-tocopherol so pistachios may help to decrease lung cancer risk.

Apricot seeds (cancer killers) mixed with pistachio’s is not only beneficial but tasty. Pistachios have already been shown in previous studies to be a heart-healthy food. The nuts have a cholesterol-lowering effect and are loaded with immune system boosting antioxidants. Pistachios are one of those ‘good-for-you’ nuts, and two ounces per day could be incorporated into dietary strategies designed to reduce the risk of lung cancer without significant changes in body mass index.

Resolve to incorporate a handful of raw pistachios with raw apricot seeds each day to help keep cancer away.

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Eating lots of green vegetables may help prevent liver cancer, according to a study by researchers
Green vegetables are high in chlorophyll. And the study found intake of chlorophyll and chlorophyllin may reduce the bioavailability in humans of cancer-causing chemical alfatoxin B, which can induce liver cancer.

Chlorophyll is a natural green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria and chlorophyllin is a water-soluble, semi-synthetic sodium/copper derivative of chlorophyll, which is used as a natural food color. Chlorophyll and chlorophyllin have been found early in trout and rats that both can reduce carcinogen bioavailablity, biomarker damage, and tumorigenicity.

Researchers examined the effect of co-treatment of chlorophyll and chlorophyllin on bioavailability of aflatoxin B, one of the most potent cancer-causing agents, which is commonly present in corn, peanuts and other crops like wheat. It is one important risk factor for liver cancer. It is one of the reasons for some people to avoid eating these foods.

Chorophyll and chlorophyllin treatment each significantly impeded Aflatoxin B absorption and helped get rid of the toxin quickly in one or more subjects. Green pigments found in vegetables may not be the only element in plant-based foods that may help prevent liver cancer. Eating plant-based foods like green vegetables and beans can reduce the hepatotoxicity of aflatoxin B and probably other cancer-causing agents as well.

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