O/T Estrogen Dominant Cancers

Wheat bran is one of the few things that will affect estrogen type cancers. It is also helpful in colon cancers. It doesn't say it in this article, but I am thinking if it will help breast cancers, it should help prostate cancer as well. By the way I do not eat All Bran, and I am not advocating any processed cereal. But I do make an unleavened bread substitute made with 2 parts flax meal, 1 part wheat germ, 1 part wheat bran, Sea Salt and water, since I don't eat bread.


http://www.usaweekend.com/food/carper_archive/951105eat_smart_cereal.html

Colon Cancer:

High-fiber wheat bran may help prevent colon cancer. In a landmark study, Jerome J. DeCosse of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center found that eating two ordinary servings (1 ounce each) of high-fiber All-Bran cereal every day caused premalignant growths of the colon (polyps) to actually shrink in size and number after only six months. Such polyps can erupt into full-blown cancer. Researchers at Arizona Cancer Center also found that half a cup of All-Bran daily might help curb the recurrence of colon cancer after surgery. If all Americans ate an additional 13 grams of fiber daily (the amount in one serving of a high-fiber wheat bran cereal), 50,000 cases of colon cancer a year could be prevented in the USA, estimates Geoffrey R. Howe, a cancer researcher at the University of Toronto.

Breast Cancer:

Wheat bran helps usher cancer-stimulating estrogen out of the body, presumably cutting the risk of breast cancer. In one study at the American Health Foundation, about 15 grams of wheat bran fiber daily lowered estrogen levels 17 percent in premenopausal women. Tufts researchers found that wheat fiber suppressed circulating estrogen better than a low-fat diet did. Evidence also suggests high-fiber wheat bran may cut the risk of endometrial and stomach cancer. Tweet