Facts:
·         Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer.
·         Breast cancer is the leading cancer among Caucasian and African American women.
·         Breast cancer incidence in women has increased form one in 20 in 1960 to one in eight today.
 
The American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute estimates that roughly one-third of all cancer deaths are related to diet and activity.  What you eat can either hurt you or help you and, given the plethora of choices facing us today in the supermarket, we need to become an educated consumer.
It is important to eat your vegetables because scientific evidence demonstrates that a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables such as kale and Brussels sprouts, which contain phytochemicals such as indole-3 carbinol, helps to protect against colon, breast, prostate, thyroid, cervical, and other cancers. 
Further, recent studies reveal that the nutrients found in cruciferous vegetables target specific breast cancer genes.  Studies also demonstrate that women with the highest omega-3 fats in breast fatty tissue were less apt to have breast cancer than women with the least omega-3 fats.
Research has also shown that a high fiber diet works to reduce hormone levels that may be involved in the progression of breast cancer, and that fiber increases the amount of estrogen removed from the body.
The Game Plan.  Eat a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables, fiber, omega- 3 fatty acids and take the necessary whole food supplements for added insurance.    At Joy of Raphael we offer a simple, inexpensive, non-invasive test designed to measure your risk for breast cancer from Metametrix called Estronex 2/16 OH Ratio.  Call us today to order your test and find out your cancer risk.