Showing posts with label diet and cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet and cancer. Show all posts
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Resveratrol And VDR

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Resveratrol is purported to have a number of health benefits ; this paper explains one possible mechanism of action, abstract: The 1,25...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Coffee And Cancer Risk

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Here is a paper on coffee consumption and cancer risk from several years ago,  Bottom like is that there doesn't seem to be a big effec...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Warburg Effect And Some Possible Cancer Treatments

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The Warburg effect is important in cancer, since cancer cells rely more heavily than do normal cells on glycolysis for energy production.  ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Vitamin D Against Colon Cancer

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Roles of vitamin D in colon cancer prevention, abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the neoplasia that is most frequently associated wi...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Mushrooms Against Cancer

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Factors from edible and medicinal mushrooms seem to have anti-cancer properties .  These sort of food-based therapies need to be studied ...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Dietary Influences On The Plasma Membrane: Cancer Implications

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Diet can affect the cell plasma membrane and hence decrease caner risk, through modulation of cell signaling. Abstract: The cell pl...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Natural Product Polyphenols Against Cancer

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Natural product polyphenols that can be obtained through diet can have anti-cancer properties , particularly with respect to cancer driven ...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Legumes And Colorectal Adenoma Risk

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An unsurprising finding is that legume consumption is associated with deceased risk for colorectal adenoma.  More investigations are requir...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Western Diet And Inflammation

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A Western diet can not only promote cancer in mice, it also causes inflammation , and even after the mice are switched back to their nor...

Soy, Genistein, And Prostate Cancer

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The soy isoflavone genistein has a variety of antitumor effects both in cell culture ( in vitro ) and in animal models ( in vivo ).  In par...
Friday, January 19, 2018

What's In The Wine?

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Resveratrol, which is found in wine as well as in other foodstuffs, has been thought to have a number of positive health benefits.  Here ...
Friday, November 24, 2017

More On Cancer Prevention And Lifestyle

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Here is recent news on yet another study linking lifestyle to cancer risk.  These are all things you, as a reader of this blog, should be ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Apigenin's Anti-Cancer Properties

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The dietary factor apigenin has anti-cancer properties , affecting important cell signaling pathways.  Note this factor is found in many ...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Molecular Pathway Linking Colon Cancer To A High Fat Diet (And Obesity)

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By Attributed to Charles Mellin - WgF1LrUvFdNysA at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimed...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Fat, Leptin, Mice, And Colon Cancer

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By The original uploader was Bigplankton at English Wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by Sunholm at en.wikipedia. - Human Genome wal...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Vegetable Extracts And Colon Cancer Cell Growth

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Broccoli. By Fir0002 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5772317 Here is an interesting paper about...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

More On Diet, Gut Microbiota, And Colorectal Cancer

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At left, colorectal cancer diagram, By Blausen Medical Communications, Inc. - Donated via OTRS, see ticket for details, CC BY 3.0, https:...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Folate Restriction And Breast Cancer

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An interesting study using cell culture suggests that folate restriction may be beneficial for breast cancer.  Abstract: Folate coenz...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Everything in moderation, but ban sugar

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This is how I summarize the advice from this new article: "Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charit...