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Eating the right foods can help you get healthy and stay fit. The choice of foods we eat is very important to both our physical health and our mental stability. The right diet can also keep us free from disease. The foods we choose to put in out bodies is often the most important choice we make everyday and often times many of us never even realize.

Proper nutrition and diet are important for many diseases but none more than those that affect our digestive system. These include an irritable bowel, constipation, colorectal, esophageal, and liver cancers. To fight off these digestive diseases, doctors put forth a set of nutritional guidelines which suggest eating less fat and getting more nutrients from foods rather than from eating foods bad for and making up for it by taking supplements. You can learn to eat a healthy, cancer-fighting diet by following these rules:

• Choose most of the foods you eat from plant sources.


• Limit your intake of high-fat foods, particularly from animal sources.


• Be physically active; achieve and maintain a healthy weight.


• Limit your consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Dietary fat may be the biggest contributors to the cancer-causing process of these diseases. High fat consumption increases the amount of bile acids in the colon. These acids can promote tumor growth, especially of the cells that line the colon. You should try to follow these eating goals:

• Decrease the total amount of fat you eat to 20%-35% or less of your total daily calories.


• Limit your cholesterol intake to 300 milligrams or less per day.


• Decrease saturated fat, such as animal fat, butter, coconut and palm oils, to less than 10% of your total calories per day.


• Eliminate all trans-fats from your diet. Trans-fats are in foods like margarine, packaged baked goods, fast food, some frozen prepared foods, chips and crackers.

Another important substance in the fight against colorectal and other cancers is antioxidants. These are the new buzzword for health fanatics. Antioxidants work by bolstering the body's defenses and immune system against potentially dangerous substances and toxins.

Try to eat foods that are good sources of vitamin A and C, such as all fruits and vegetables, and vitamin E, found in foods including wheat germ, nuts and seeds. Good sources of selenium include seafood, meat and cereals.

Fiber is well known to be a powerful weapon against cancer. There is evidence that fiber intake improves overall health by moving wastes through the digestive tract faster. This gives potentially toxic wastes less time to come into contact with intestinal cells.

It is also thought that some types of fiber help detoxify potential cancer-causing substances as well as prevent these substances from being absorbed by the cells of the intestines. Good sources of fibers include: whole-grain cereals and breads, prunes, berries, kidney beans and other legumes, fresh fruits and vegetables, and brown rice.

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