Bananas and root vegetables, like carrots and beets, reduce the risk of kidney cancer. The conclusion is obtained from vegetable-rich diet studies that involved 61,000 Swedish women aged 40 to76 years continuously monitored his diet for 13 years.
At the beginning of the study, the women eating patterns being recorded. They were asked to report what is eaten during the previous six months. Over 13 years later, found the appearance of renal cell carcinoma, a common form of kidney cancer, in 122 women.
From the assessment further concluded, fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with low high risk of kidney cancer. Women who ate bananas four to six times a week had half the risk of lower kidney cancer than those who did not eat at all. Consumption of root vegetables like carrots and beets are regularly also can reduce the risk by 50 to 65 percent.
According to lead investigator, Dr. Bahram Rashidkhani from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, each year there are at least 190,000 kidney cancer cases diagnosed worldwide. The causes ranging from smoking, hypertension, obesity, until the chemical contamination. Although this research is so new that tries to link between kidney cancer and diet.
In the study reported in the International Journal of Cancer that Dr Rashidkhani stressed, the more important in the diet are certain types of fruit and vegetables rather than whole vegetables and fruits are eaten. Bananas, explained Rashidkhani, contains special antioxidants called phenolics. Similarly, white cabbage contains isothiocyanates, chemical compounds which, according to research in the laboratory capable of destroying tumor formation.
