Why the vegetables can prevent cancer?

When it comes to prevent cancer, people may thought of tomato, broccoli and some other foods, in fact, vegetables are the best foods to prevent cancer.

In 1980, the anti-cancer effect of the greens have been reported. The “acetone extract” extracted from vegetables can inhibit two kinds of strong carcinogen methyl gall anthracene and benzo [a mutagenic effect. The researchers also found that regardless of what kind of treatment,  suppressor effects are associated with extracts of "chlorophyll" concentration, that is to say, the more chlorophyll extract, the stronger the vegetable anti-mutagenic effect.

Later, people continue to confirm the anti-cancer effect of chlorophyll and vegetable, Later it was discovered how much chlorophyll intake associated with a variety of cancer risk, the more intake of chlorophyll, the smaller the risk of cancer.

Studies have shown that the more green leafy vegetables the makes intake, the less risk of suffering from colon cancer. The folic acid in vegetables may be an important factor in suppressing breast cancer. Chlorophyll can also reduce the absorption of the toxin aflatoxin.

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