Category: Food, Nature & Cancer
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The Sleep-Cancer Connection: What Happens in Your Body When You Don’t Rest
Scientists are now linking not just sleep duration but sleep regularity to cancer risk. Here is what the research says about how your nightly routine affects immune surveillance, DNA repair, and long-term cancer outcomes.
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Moringa and Cancer: What the Science Actually Shows
Key takeaways Moringa is a leafy plant with natural compounds that can slow down or kill cancer cells in lab dishes and in animal studies. This is early lab evidence only. No human trials show that moringa prevents or treats cancer, so it is not a substitute for proper cancer treatment. If you are having…
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Green Tea and Cancer: What EGCG Does Inside the Cell
Key takeaways EGCG, the main compound in green tea, can slow the growth of cancer cells and switch protective genes back on — but mostly in lab dishes and animal studies. People who drink tea regularly tend to have a lower risk of some cancers, but this is a link, not proof, and strong human…
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There Is No Safe Amount: What Science Now Says About Alcohol and Cancer
A major 2023 meta-analysis of 139 cohort studies reached a clear conclusion: there is no safe level of alcohol consumption with respect to cancer risk. Even light drinking elevates the risk of esophageal, colorectal, and breast cancers.
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What You’re Drinking With Your Meal: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Cancer Risk
Key takeaways Sugary drinks (sodas, sweetened juices and teas, sports drinks) raise cancer risk mainly by driving weight gain, which is linked to at least 13 cancers. Large studies tie more sugary drinks to higher risk of breast cancer and of bowel cancer in younger adults — even after accounting for body weight. Switching to…
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Obesity and Cancer: The Evidence Behind 13 Cancer Types
Obesity is the second leading preventable cause of cancer. The WHO links 13 cancer types to excess body fat — not through aesthetics, but through oestrogen, insulin, and chronic inflammatory pathways at the cellular level.
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Coffee and Cancer: A More Complicated Story Than You Think
Key takeaways Regular coffee drinking is most consistently linked to a lower risk of liver and womb (endometrial) cancers, with weaker hints for bowel and mouth cancers. The likely reasons: coffee’s antioxidants help protect DNA, calm inflammation, and improve how the body handles blood sugar. Coffee itself is not classed as cancer-causing — but drinking…
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The Sugar and Cancer Myth: What the Science Actually Says
We’ve all heard it: sugar feeds cancer. But like most things in biology, the truth is considerably more nuanced — and more interesting.
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