Eating Mushrooms Daily Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer
I'd like to share something that is an important yet little-known fact. Eating mushrooms everyday reduces a woman's chance of getting breast cancer by 64%. At the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Dr. Joel Fuhrman shared this fact. He has done a lot of work in the area of strengthening the immune system through food. Mushrooms are not high in micronutrients, but they have certain properties that help prevent cancer. (For example, they contain antigen-binding lectins which bind to abnormal cells and "label" them for the immune system so it can target and destroy them.) It is best to eat a mix of various kinds of mushrooms, but even the simple white everyday mushrooms we find in most grocery stores are effective, and as little as 1/10 of a cup everyday has an effect. With so much publicity and money going toward finding a cure, Dr. Fuhrman thinks we should be letting everyone know that eating mushrooms can be a part of PREVENTION for this disease. Work mushrooms into your diet, ladies, (salads, meatloaf, etc.) whenever you can! (This is not meant to be a comment on mushrooms in supplement form. Dr. Fuhrman was talking about real food.) I had never heard this before, and I'm betting there are a lot of women in the world like me.
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Sheila Dancho
Dr. Wentz Vision Award Finalist
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