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2001 OCT 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Consider this: 180,000 U.S. women develop breast cancer each year and one in eight women will develop breast cancer over her lifetime. While a diet containing a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and animal products in the proportions recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture Food Guide Pyramid may help in the prevention of cancer, whey protein is being proven in clinical studies to be a powerful assistant in cancer prevention and treatment.
Whey protein was found to inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells in a test tube, and more promising yet was a clinical study that showed a regression in the size of tumors of some patients who were fed 30 g of whey protein concentrate per day.
Although soy and cancer prevention have often been linked, whey has been proved in clinical studies in rats at the Arkansas Children's Research Institute to be twice as effective as soy in breast cancer prevention. One supplement, Designer Whey, actually decreased tumor growth in rats by 60% when used in conjunction with photodynamic therapy!
Studies have also led researchers to an amazing discovery that whey protein protects healthy cells while cancerous cells are being treated with chemotherapy. In order to increase the effects of radiation and chemotherapy on cancer patients, doctors must sufficiently reduce glutathione in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Whey Protein May Be Twice As Effective As Soy As...