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1Research Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Abstract:
1. Results of epidemiological studies indicate that a human diet rich in vegetables may lower the incidence of cancer. 2. This preventive effect of the vegetable diet against cancer could be ascribed to lowered intake of energy (joules) and its content of vitamins and carotene. 3. The consumption of vegetables means also less meat and fats as well as increased fiber content and specific chemopreventive compounds (indoles, plant phenols) present in such a diet. 4. The supposed mechanisms of prevention may include enhanced enzymatic detoxification of harmful compounds, and inhibition of their binding to cellular DNA, their adsorption on fiber, detoxification of radical forms of carcinogens by natural antioxidants in plants and probably many other ways too.
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