Cancer Prevention Diet and Cancer Causing Foods

Ginger

This popular spice, long used to quell nausea, may soon be used to fight cancer, too.
How It Works
Working directly on cancer cells, researchers discovered ginger's ability to kill cancer cells in two ways. In apoptosis, the cancer cells essentially commit suicide without harming surrounding cells. In autophagy, "the cells are tricked into digesting themselves," explains J. Rebecca Liu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who has been studying ginger's effects on ovarian cancer cells. While this preliminary evidence shows promise, ginger's cancer-fighting effects must still be proven in animal and human trials.