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Food can help heal and the most potent foods don't always have to be fresh. Some of the most powerful cancer-fighters can be found in your pantry. Learn the best foods to keep in stock at your home.

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00:00I'm always talking about how food is medicine,

00:02but sometimes the most potent foods don't have to be fresh.

00:06Some of the most powerful cancer fighters in the world

00:08are found right in your pantry.

00:10They keep, they're cheap, and they're easy to grab.

00:13And you know what?

00:13Some of them come in cans.

00:15So here to review the best cancer-fighting foods

00:17that you must keep in your pantry is Dr. Will Clower.

00:19He's a leading nutritionist and founder

00:21of the Mediterranean Wellness Initiative.

00:23Thank you for joining us.

00:24Thank you.

00:25So talk to me a little bit about cancer-fighting foods

00:27and why you think they're so important

00:29to keep in our pantries.

00:30Well, it's critical.

00:30When I talk to people all over the country,

00:32what I find is that the number one problem

00:34they come up to me with is they'll say,

00:36I can't make good foods that's good for me

00:39because it's too expensive and it takes too long.

00:42The thing I love about this segment

00:44is that everything you have here

00:46are things that are cheap, they keep, like you said,

00:49and they're delicious too.

00:51All right, so come on back here.

00:52Dr. Clower has three groups of foods

00:54you can store in your pantry to reduce your risks of cancer.

00:57The first pantry must have

00:59if you're gonna reduce your chance of cancer

01:00are foods that have orange colors to them.

01:02Now, why is that?

01:03All oranges have beta-carotene in them,

01:05and the beta-carotene is a massive antioxidant.

01:08Antioxidants in your body,

01:10what they do is they clean up the toxins.

01:12They clean up the waste products of the cells in your body.

01:15It's kind of like the antioxidants,

01:17they're like the garbage men of your body.

01:19They pick it up, they clean it up,

01:20so that garbage doesn't build, build, build,

01:23and lead to chronic diseases like cancer.

01:25All right, so very specifically,

01:26you picked pumpkin,

01:27and you picked a butternut squash product as well.

01:30Yeah, fabulous, fabulous.

01:31Both of these have lots of potassium,

01:35good for your heart, good for a lot of things,

01:37and all the beta-carotenes that are great for you.

01:39And if you get that butternut squash,

01:41you throw it in a pan, and when you do that,

01:43what you do is you stick a little stick,

01:45this is a secret.

01:45Please tell me, I love secrets.

01:47You stick a little stick of cinnamon in there,

01:49and then when you get it out,

01:51you get it with a little crunchy bread,

01:52a little maybe parmesan cheese on the top.

01:54Oh, I know, I'm ready to eat now.

01:55You guys hungry?

01:56Right.

01:57Yeah.

01:58All right, any particular cancers

01:59have these benefits you for?

02:01Breast cancer is the one that's the most well-researched.

02:03Women who eat orange foods,

02:06their likelihood of breast cancer plummets.

02:08And it's not supplements.

02:11These are the data, it's not supplements,

02:13it's these foods that you can keep in your pantry,

02:16and then pull out at any point.

02:18So treat these like medications?

02:19Totally.

02:20Give me a dose.

02:21Totally.

02:22Three times per week.

02:23Okay.

02:23You can do that, right?

02:24Three times a week.

02:26Next, must have in your pantry are products

02:28that are rich in antioxidants like these beans.

02:30Yes.

02:31And why'd you pick these in particular?

02:32Well, all red beans are so high in antioxidants.

02:36As a matter of fact,

02:37if you, when you list the top antioxidants on planet Earth,

02:41three of the top four are beans like these.

02:44Is that right?

02:45So not only do, yes,

02:46and not only do they have the antioxidants,

02:48but they have two other things

02:50that are such good cancer fighters.

02:52One of the things that are in red beans

02:54include things like,

02:56there's something that causes your cancer cells

02:58to commit suicide, cancer cell suicide,

03:03because of these things

03:03that you can pull right out of your cupboard.

03:05You stick it in a pan, you warm it up, you spice it up,

03:07and you are good to go.

03:08A little rice.

03:09Right.

03:10It's awesome.

03:11Inexpensive, folks, inexpensive.

03:11So very specifically,

03:12which cancers can we help ourselves with with these beans?

03:15Colon cancer and lung cancer.

03:17That's one of the biggest ones.

03:18Yeah, exactly.

03:19And give me a dose.

03:20They're medications, give me a dose.

03:21These also are around three times per week,

03:24and you need to include these in some way.

03:27You can include them by throwing them in a chili,

03:29you can throw them in a stew,

03:30or you can just get the pintos,

03:32and you can have them on the side

03:34as a quick, quick, quick, easy, easy, easy

03:36side dish for any meal.

03:38I'm gonna pass these out afterwards.

03:39Okay, the last packet,

03:40let's have our cruciferous vegetables.

03:42This was the one that we thought

03:44would be most challenging,

03:45because most folks don't think

03:46about cruciferous vegetables.

03:47Right.

03:48Some of you keep in your pantry,

03:48but you have a solution.

03:49How is that possible?

03:50Well, it's cabbage.

03:52It has a lot of things that are good for you about cabbage,

03:54but when you ferment that cabbage,

03:58and that fermentation leads to sauerkraut,

04:01that main cancer-fighting molecule in the cabbage degrades,

04:05and you're thinking, oh, that's awful.

04:07It degrades, it's bad,

04:08but the thing it degrades into

04:10are three or four different cancer fighters.

04:13It's almost like a Big Daddy cancer fighter

04:17gave birth to several more cancer fighters,

04:19and all of them grew up

04:21and turned out to be working for you,

04:22killing cancer.

04:23Nice.

04:25What cancers, again,

04:26and give me a rough amount per week we need to take.

04:29All fermented foods are good for preventing colon cancer,

04:32and this is no exception.

04:35In addition to colon cancer,

04:36this guy helps to also prevent other things

04:39like prostate cancer and breast cancer.

04:41Again, we have covered all the big cancer study folks,

04:43but the problem is you can keep in your pantry.

04:46Yes, absolutely.

04:47Well, how many servings a week?

04:49As often as you can get them.

04:51It's hard to get an upper limit.

04:52The problem with things like sauerkraut

04:54is that people don't know how to eat it anymore.

04:56They're thinking sauerkraut,

04:57oh, I see, chili cheese dogs,

04:59and you're like, really?

05:00Chili is this?

05:01That's what?

05:02But you can have sauerkraut on any sandwich.

05:04It has a nice crunch, a nice snap,

05:06and it's got that acidity that breaks up the flavor.

05:08It's brilliant,

05:09and you can also have it by itself on the side.

05:13You mix protein with sauerkraut,

05:14you can eat just about anything.

05:15That's right.

05:16It is good to go.

05:16It's great with lentils and maybe a little pork chop,

05:19and if you have those together,

05:21you've got all that goodness,

05:22and that probably costs you $4

05:23and took you 12 minutes to make.

05:25Dr. Clower, thank you for your time.

05:26Pleasure.

05:27Appreciate it very much.

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