Mediterranean Diet Helps Keep Cancer at Bay

A diet high in fruit, vegetables, nuts as well as fish is likely to lower possibilities of malignant melanoma.
Exposure to sun rays is the greatest cause of this kind of skin cancer . Recent research shows that a poor diet can also add to getting this type of skin cancer .
Recent research has illustrated that a Mediterranean diet helps protect against several types of cancer, asthma, diabetes and heart disease .
This is the first time research has indicated benefits of diet for a melanoma, a frequently lethal form of cancer whcih affects 9,000 plus people per annum in the UK, resulting in 1,700 fatalities annually.
The Italian study may help to explain why cancer rates are lower in Mediterranean populations than those of Northern Europe, Australia and the USA .
Only 3 out of every 100,000 individuals living in Mediterranean countries get malignant melanomas, in contrast to 22 out of every 100,000 in Scandinavia and 50 out of every 100,000 in Australia.
This research has been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. It concludes that a diet of lemons, oranges, spinach, carrots, nuts, oily fish, olive oil and fresh rosemary and olive oil can dramatically cut the likelihood of this disease.
This study bears some good news for us tea-loving Brits. Tea is considered to halve the risk of cancer, whereas, coffee and wine appear to be of no benefit.
Malignant melanomas grow when cells within moles become cancerous. They begin to divide uncontrollably,in the end spreading throughout the body.