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Cooking to combat

cancer: the vegan philosophy

03:21 PM CDT on Monday,

April 2, 2007

By BECKY STOPPA / McClatchy Newspapers

 

 

 

 

STEPHEN NOWERS/McClatchy

 

Delisa Renideo teaches a Food for Life cooking class.

 

 

Linda Blanchard took up running 23 years ago

after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

About seven years later, the Alaska resident learned that

food may play a role in cancer survival. She started eating more fruits and

vegetables, cut back on fats and began opting for chicken or fish instead of

beef.

Today, the 59-year-old retired school nurse

wants to do more. She's attending weekly cooking classes sponsored by the

Cancer Project, a national nonprofit health organization, to find out. Food for

Life Nutrition and Cooking Classes for Cancer Prevention and Survival, an

eight-week series, was developed by physicians, nutrition experts and

registered dietitians.

" The purpose of the series is to help

people make healthy choices to prevent cancer, or to survive it if they already

have it, " says Delisa Renideo, a Cancer Project instructor and former

nurse.

" The same diet we're talking about is going

to help fight heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, pretty much all the

diseases of affluence, " she says.

Each class includes cooking demonstrations and

facts about how certain foods and nutrients promote or discourage cancer

growth. Recipes are low-fat and plant-based.

That means meat, poultry and dairy products are

out.

Vegan is a term that distinguishes pure

vegetarians from those who eat poultry, fish or dairy products. That's part of

the Food for Life philosophy.

Studies show that diets rich in meat, dairy

products, fried foods and even vegetable oils boost hormones such as estrogen,

which is linked to breast cancer in women, and testosterone, which may play a

role in prostate cancer in men, the handbook reports.

These hormone levels fall significantly in both

men and women when they reduce the amount of fat in their diets.

The Food for Life classes emphasize diets based

on fruits, grains, vegetables and legumes.

" If you build your meals around these four

food groups, then you really are going to have a healthy diet, " Ms.

Renideo says.

The next class in Texas will be in Temple starting April 26. See www.cancerproject.org

for details.

Becky Stoppa,

McClatchy Newspapers

 

RESOURCES

 

THE CANCER PROJECT: Offers classes, books, videos, fact sheets, vegan recipes and

tips, brochures and other educational materials on cancer prevention and

survival. To receive a free e-newsletter or to get the free booklet on cancer

and diet prevention in English or Spanish, go to www.cancerproject.org.

 

 

FOOD FACTS AND CANCER

 

When a woman begins a low-fat

diet, the amount of estrogen

in her bloodstream can drop by 15 percent to 50 percent within a few weeks,

depending on how low-fat the diet is. Less estrogen means less stimulus for

cancer-cell growth.

A study of 953 women diagnosed

with breast cancer showed that their risk

of dying increased by 40 percent for every 1,000 grams of fat consumed per

month.

A person on a typical American

diet consumes approximately

1,500 more grams of fat each month than a person on a low-fat, pure vegetarian

diet.

A 1998 Harvard study found that

men who typically consumed

more than two servings of milk per day were at 60 percent greater risk of

developing prostate cancer than those who generally avoided milk.

SOURCE: The Survivor's

Handbook: Eating Right for Cancer Survival (The Cancer Project; $14.95)

 

 

 

 

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