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(Reprinted from the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter)
The "war on cancer," declared by President Nixon back in 1971, is being won-but at a tragically slow pace, with millions of casualties. Emerging research, however, suggests that enlisting Americans' diets and lifestyles as weapons against cancer could dramatically change that battlefield and speed up the fight against what's still the nation's second leading cause of death, exceeded only by heart disease.
In January, the American Cancer Society released its annual report on cancer deaths in America, which showed a slight downward trend for the second consecutive year. The findings, published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, covered 2004, the most recent year Many people are being advised these days to consume various supplements, herbs, and vitamins as well as maintaining a healthy diet. What people are not being advised about is ensuring that those same supplements, herbs, vitamins and foods are being digested and absorbed by the body. Nutritional experts have long debated whether we digest completely and equally.
Genetics, diet, lifestyle, processed foods and a toxic environment can all affect and compromise digestion. This can lead to a weakened immune system function, fatigue, hormone imbalance, digestive disorders, and disease. Supplemental digestive enzymes can be a key to prevention and correction of the above conditions.
Digestive enzymes are the catalysts which allow us to break down food into absorbable nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids. Enzymes turn the food we eat into energy and unlock this energy for use in the body. Once these nutrients are liberated, enzymes again play a vital role in escorting them to the cells and tissues for utilization. Therefore, without proper enzyme functioning, such nutrients are useless to our bodies.
According to Tom Bohager's book, Enzymes: What the experts know, "Science has so far been able to identify and name over 5,000 enzymes that our bodies manufacture and utilize, but there are far more, perhaps even thousands of different enzymes within the body."
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