How to look and feel younger: 52 total pages.

Grain products and vegetables have loads of fiber. While at first look it appears more as rabbit food than cancer fighting, studies show that insoluble fiber helps to fight colon cancer and researchers believe it also helps to fight breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers as well. In Finland low rates of breast and colon cancer are linked directly to diets rich in cereals. Certain parts of Africa where people consume lots of high fiber foods the incidence of intestinal disease is practically nil. Let's take a look at how it works. Insoluble fiber will soak up water as if it were a sponge thereby making stools bulkier. That excess bulk spreads out cancer causing components over a larger area preventing them from grouping together to do damage. Fiber is the equivalent of a super highway through the intestines that gets things moving faster so there are fewer opportunities for any interaction between cells lining the colon and any cancerous agents. Fiber works with the levels of acids in the intestines changing the way that

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