I have friends who eat mostly vegetarian, and look/feel great, while I tried eating vegetarian twice and both times ended up with my doctor telling me to give it up (my blood protein levels were in the basement).

It’s all about what works for you!
(And I am printing out this list and seeing if I can eat at least one of these per meal! :-)

I’m a carnivore, but the truth hurts.

I’m also a fan of “happiness is being satisfied with being with people that we like.” Take that, grumpy people!

Lookin’ forward to the interview with the current God of the Uke. Rockstar.

If and when you develop a serious disease, you’ll be grateful that there’s something other than carrot juice and colloidal silver available.

And yes I forced myself to watch it. Vacuous crap.

Tuna and other foods high in omega 3′s are on the list to help balance out our over-consumption of omega 6′s in corn products and corn fed animals, etc. Consuming a proper balance of omegas is one of the best ways to keep angiogenisis in check.

BTW – Dark chocolate is only good for you if it is at least 70% cacao. Any less ratio – such as in hershey special dark, Dove and other standard dark chocolate – and the harmful effects of sugars out-weigh the health effects of the cacao.

“Among survivors of early stage breast cancer, adoption of a diet that was very high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in fat did not reduce additional breast cancer events or mortality during a 7.3-year follow-up period.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17635889

“This study failed to show any effect of a low-fat, high-fiber, high-fruit and -vegetable eating pattern on adenoma recurrence even with 8 years of follow-up.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17855692

Sure, I’d eat some of those foods, but not the ones high in carbohydrates. I’d put my money on a high-fat, ketogenic diet, with plenty of saturated fat, omega-3 fats, and very low amounts of omega-6 fats. (Omega-6 encourages metastasis; omega-3 inhibits it.) Most cancer feeds on sugar, but our bodies do quite well on ketones and fatty acids. Plenty of pasture-raised, fatty meats and bone broths for me. Oh, and sun and vitamin D. Meat doesn’t cause cancer, but grain-fed, sun-starved, cooked in vegetable oil meat, washed down with sugar might.

– http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Glucose%20lactate%20and%20cancer
– http://freetheanimal.com/2008/04/will-the-blogos.html
– http://freetheanimal.com/2008/12/vitamin-d-deficiency-and-all-cancer.html

I work for a major pharmco, and my two main areas are oncology and AIDS.

There is so much healthnut claptrappery around cancer that it makes me insane.

Yes, eating too much of certain things can contribute to your risk profile to cancer. HOWEVER, that does NOT mean that eating lots and lots of the OPPOSITE of those bad things will CURE cancer or PREVENT it.

Classic illustration: Thin girl drinking a POM outside my local Key Food on her break…while smoking a cigarette…and explaining to the other check-out girl that the POM “helps prevent cancer.”

There isn’t a single compound on that list of foods that hasn’t been extracted, isolated, tested, researched, etc.

And, fwiw, antiangiogenesis drugs are not the only operative method for cancer drugs. Also recall that totally healthy people who have spartan diets still get whackadoodle cancers out of the blue (IIRC, Fred Rogers ie Mr. Rogers died of pancreatic cancer, and he was a vegetarian who swam for a few hours every single day of his life. He also didn’t smoke or drink). Granted, the plural of anecdote is NOT evidence. However, if just diet alone could prevent ALL cancers, the number of “Jesus H. Christ, how did THAT health nut get CANCER” cases would be headline news rather than an unfortunate sad story that you hear a few times a year around the water cooler.

Then again, my respect for TED went down the toilet after they asked on Jaimie Oliver. Celebuchef=jumping the shark unless he also discovered a new star system or found a cure for the common cold or somesuch.

“the not-so-good movie, Total Recall”

Have you gone mad, sir?

Quato’s gonna getcha.

colon cancer is most prevalent among those who eat a lot of red meat

http://abstracts.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/11/3690

Don’t forget cannabis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

It applies directly to this conversation. Basically, if there was some combination of common fruits and vegetables, or some handful of common foods that dramatically increased your health, you’d already know about it.

It would not be secret or controversial. If eating blueberries and broccoli cured cancer and increased your lifespan 2x, you’d know about it. We would have known about it 10k years ago.

Should you eat this entire list ? Yes. Is there a benefit ? Yes. But beyond the general health effects of eating fresh fruits and veggies and getting plenty of exercise, these items will have very marginal effects on your overall health.