TED presents How You Can Eat To Starve Cancer

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Anyone who has had a brush with cancer, as a survivor or with a friend or relative knows that we are far from figuring it out. The American Cancer Society is one of the comprehensive sites you can go to get really good information about preventing and treating cancer but even they don’t have a cure or even a solid prevention plan for cancer.

Recently William Li, MD. the President of The Angiogenesis Foundation presented a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, that is, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step to doing this: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

Li has come to the conclusion that we are treating cancer too late in the game. If we want to prevent angiogenesis, that could prevent cancer. Since diet accounts for 35% of environmental-induced cancer. he says we can eat to “starve” cancer. Angiogenesis can be stopped with resveratrol (red grapes) strawberries extract, teas , soy, parsley, garlic, and other common foods. He also found there is food synergy, in other words, combining foods enhance anti-angiogenesis. Men who eat cooked tomatoes (lycopenes) three times a week have a 50% prostate cancer risk reduction. Dietary cancer prevention actually beats drug cancer treatment, according to Li.

But cancer isn’t the only disease that anti-angiogenesis can starve. Many of society’s most devastating diseases — cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, to name a few — share a common denominator: faulty angiogenesis, the body’s growth of new capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel growth, serious health issues arise. While researching under Harvard surgeon Judah Folkman, who pioneered the study of angiogenesis, Li learned how angiogenesis-based medicine helps patients overcome numerous diseases by restoring the balance of blood-vessel growth. What foods does Li point to if you want to starve cancer? Here are a few:

Check out this short TED talk with Li that describes how anti-angiogenesis works and how it will help to cure people with disease.

 
TED出品：怎么吃能够“饿死”癌细胞

翻译：Wendy
审核：Zihe

每一个得过癌症并有幸活下来的，或有亲朋好友得过癌症的，他们都明白其实人们对癌症并不了解。你能从美国癌症协会的网站了解到大量预防和治疗癌症的知识，但是，即使网站上列出很多有效预防癌症的计划，也没有治愈癌症的方法。

近日，“血管新生”基金会主席威廉李医生介绍一种新型治疗癌症和其他疾病的方法：抑制血管新生，即抑制为肿瘤供给养分的血管的生长。其中最重要的一步是：摄入抗癌食物来切断癌细胞的给养，从而彻底扼杀癌细胞。

李医生的结论是：在与癌细胞斗争中，当我们开始治疗时已经太晚了。如果我们抑制血管新生就可以预防癌症。他认为，由于饮食不当在环境因素致癌中占到35%，我们可以靠吃来“饿死”癌细胞。我们可以通过摄入白藜芦醇（红葡萄）、草莓提取物、茶、黄豆、荷兰芹、大蒜和其他常见食物来抑制血管新生。他还发现食物有协同作用，换言之，食物结合能加强抑制血管新生。那些每周吃3次熟番茄（茄红素）的人患前列腺癌的风险会降低50%。李医生说事实上通过合理饮食来预防比治疗癌症更有效。

但抑制血管新生并非只能扼杀癌细胞。很多恶性疾病——举几个来说，癌症、心血管病、糖尿病和老年痴呆症——都有一个共同点：血管新生异常，即大量毛细血管的新生。由于过多或不足的毛细血管新生，引起了很多恶性疾病。在血管新生研究的先驱——哈佛大学外科医生犹大福克曼的指导下，李医生的研究即基于血管新生的医学理论认为通过恢复毛细血管新生的平衡可以帮助病人战胜疾病。那么李医生列出了那些能扼杀癌细胞的食物呢？以下为其中的一部分：

绿茶 红葡萄 薰衣草
草莓 红酒 南瓜籽
黑莓 白菜 海参
山莓（覆盆子） 甘蓝 金枪鱼
蓝莓 黄豆 荷兰芹
橙子 人参 大蒜
葡萄柚 花菇 番茄
柠檬 甘草 橄榄油
苹果 姜黄根 葡萄籽油
菠萝 肉豆蔻 黑巧克力（不含糖奶）
樱桃 朝鲜蓟 其他
信息来源：www.anglo.org