Cancer is a modern day disease brought about by modern day food. Instant food fixes like TV dinners and fast food deliveries, which had a lot of synthetic additives, introduced what are known as free radicals inside the body. These are the by products of food nutrients broken down during metabolism. Body cells could not absorb them since their molecules cannot find a compatible partner in order to form into an absorbable compound.

Yet free radicals could not be eliminated as wastes since they tend to attach to cells and mutate by mimicking the cells without any particular purpose for its existence. Eating nutritious foods rich in antioxidants will produce the scavengers who will hunt for these free radicals. Antioxidants will break them down to eliminate these toxins out of our body system.

Get started with a good breakfast of cereals topped with strawberries and blueberries and keep some fruit bars made from dried fruits and oats plus a cup of yogurt as your snack foods.

Eat meals rich in phytochemicals, which you can find in superfoods like beans and vegetables belonging to the cruciferous family — broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale, and cauliflower. The main health benefits you can derive from these types of vegetables is the prevention of colon and colorectal cancer where free radicals remained stuck and formed cancer growths.

Add a cup of kidney beans to these vegetables and you’ll get the right balance of Vitamin A and C, protein, and fiber. You can complete this dish into a hearty balanced meal by adding pasta, tomatoes, and a light-salad dressing, and you will get the adequate dose of cancer fighting phytochemicals.

You can get cancer-fighting antioxidants and nutrients like lutein and carotenoids teeming with vitamin A, E, and C from spinach, romaine lettuce, collard greens, and other dark leafy vegetables. These foods will help take down the free radicals attached to your blood cells or the cells in your nerves and tissues.

Tomatoes are also rich in phytochemicals as well as lycopene that can prevent heart diseases as well. Add tomatoes to your meals, salads, sandwiches, and even your home made pizzas. Get three times the amount of fiber and beta carotene requirements from carrots, which are also rich in vitamin A.

You may think watermelon is not as nutritious as other foods because they are mostly water. Its very liquid is full of antioxidants, betacarotene, lycopene, and can provide you 80% of your daily vitamin C requirement.

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