| Women desperate for pregnancy may be setting | | | | a healthy plant in good soil even if you start out |
| themselves up for cancer if they take fertility | | | | with a weak seed." |
| drugs. Mary Rossing, PH.D. and colleagues at the | | | | A friend told me they recently discovered the |
| University of Washington at the Cancer Research | | | | gene for being overweight. "It was discovered at |
| Center found that women taking fertility drugs | | | | the bottom of a container of Haagen Daz ice |
| had 2-1/s times the normal risk of developing | | | | cream," she laughed. |
| ovarian cancer, especially ling-term use of the | | | | The consumption of dairy products has been |
| drug clomiphene, at the Stanford University school | | | | connected to a higher-than-normal incidence of |
| of Medicine found a threefold greater risk of | | | | cancer. In 1989, Gynecologist Daniel Kramer at |
| ovarian cancer among women using fertility drugs. | | | | Harvard Medical School in Boston linked galactose |
| Ovarian cancer is thought to stem from genetic | | | | consumption with an increased risk of ovarian |
| mistakes that occur as cells divide to repair the | | | | cancer. Galactose has been found to be toxic to |
| ovary after it ruptures to release an egg. Since | | | | human eggs, it may be that it somehow |
| pregnancy, which stops ovulation for months at a | | | | interferes with our enzymatic offensive line. |
| time, has been shown to greatly reduce the | | | | If you want to avoid ovarian cancer, do not eat |
| chances of a woman developing ovarian cancer, it | | | | fatty foods, and concentrate of fresh, whole |
| stands to reason that anything that stimulates | | | | vegetables. Harvey Risch, M.D., Department of |
| ovulation will have the opposite effect. | | | | Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University |
| This genetic defect, by the way, may be | | | | School of Medicine found that the bad |
| corrected through good nutrition. All the illnesses | | | | cholesterol-raising properties of Tran fatty acids, |
| that befall us are caused or influenced by genes. | | | | saturated fat an eggs increased a woman's |
| Just because you are born with faulty genes, | | | | chances of getting ovarian cancer. He found |
| does not mean you have to live with them. The | | | | eating vegetable fiber decreased the risk as it |
| fact is, the body has enzymatic machinery | | | | decreased the cholesterol. He concluded that |
| designed to destroy and repair faulty nuclear DNA | | | | reducing the intake of saturated fat and |
| (genes). This offensive line depends on good | | | | consuming more vegetables appears to lower the |
| nutrition for optimum performance. Emanuel | | | | risk of ovarian cancer. If your cholesterol is high |
| Cheraskin, M.D., says, "think of the gene as the | | | | and you are concerned about cancer, take aged |
| seed, the environment as the soil. You can grow | | | | garlic extract. |