Our best defense against cancer is prevention: keeping ourselves as
healthy as possible and eating foods that have been shown to help
protect our bodies.
Cancer prevention is the holy grail of
medical research. Students in medical school dream of finding a cure,
scientists hope their work will provide the foundation for the one true
end of this disease, and patients and family members pray for a future
without cancer. Until that grand discovery, we will have to count on the
wisdom of our bodies.
Healthy immune systems work hard to spot and eliminate cancerous
cellular mutations before the disease can begin its wild, uncontrolled
growth. Prevention, then, is all about keeping ourselves as healthy as
possible and eating the kinds of foods that have been shown to help
protect us — right down to our cells.
