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Yogic Diet & Prevention of Cancer
Modern reasearch shows that diets such as smoked fish/ meat or other foods known to contain carcinogenic chemicals should be
avoided at all costs. Because of the Western fast food type diet, colon cancer in men, promoted by high meat ( beef ) and fat
consumption is on the increase in the West. There is no doubt that a high fibre, low-fat diet reduces the risk of colon cancer.
Many compounds which are potent carcinogens are contained in cigarette smoking as well as smoked or barbecued meat or fish
products. They include benzenes ( in the tar component of cigarette smoke), heterocyclic amines & polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( in smoked / barbecued meat or fish ). That explains why lung cancer is on the rise in the Western male population during the last century. Colon cancer has reached endemic proportions in the West ( because of higher consumption of barbequed meat and beef fat ) & stomach cancer occurs at an alarming rate in Japan because of the Japanese habit of consuming fish.
Claims which need furthur research
While spices such as ( black or green) or spices such as fresh ginger, garlic & turmeric have been reported to reduce the risk of colon
cancer, onion is claimed to lower the risk of stomach cancer. Soyabean products reduces the risk of prostate cancer. Skin
cancer is reduced, it is claimed, by topical application of some constituents of ginger oil and ginger extract. It is true that more
research is needed on natural compounds. One breakthrough is the