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Diet and Cancer Prevention
What Is It About Those Vegetarians?
It's the fiber! It's the beta-carotene! No, it's the phytoestrogens!
Scientists have been trying to figure out why vegetarians have
only about half the cancer risk of meat-eaters. The latest plant
supernutrient, beta-sitosterol, was lauded at the Federation
of American Societies of Experimental Biology by University
of Buffalo nutrition researcher Atif Awad, Ph.D. Beta-sitosterol
was shown to inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells in the
test tube, cutting the number of cancer cells by 66 percent
compared with control cell cultures. Dr. Awad had previously found
that beta-sitosterol inhibited prostate cancer cell growth but
did so by a different mechanism, inhibiting an enzyme called
PP2A, which is involved in cell growth.
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