Fresh fruits and vegetables more than men with less flat cell carcinoma

Japan's Health Ministry announced on the 14th Study Group's findings show that consumption of vegetables and fruits more men suffering from flat cell carcinoma was significantly lower than the risk of consumption of fruits and vegetables less men. Research Group in 1995 and 1998 in two batches of eight counties in Japan about 39,000 aged 45 to 74-year-old male implementation of the diet surveys, statistics of their average daily intake of vegetables and fruits. The deadline for survey in 2004, 39,000 survey of 116 people in Japan suffer from more common esophageal cancer - flat cell carcinoma. Researchers will survey by the daily consumption of vegetables and fruits the total number divided into three groups, intake of fruits and vegetables and flat cell carcinoma of the relationship between the incidence rate. The results of this comparison, the total consumption of fruits and vegetables the most (daily average of 544 grams) of the survey with a group of flat cell carcinoma risk, which is about the total intake of fruits and vegetables at least (an average of 170 grams per day) of a group of 52%. From vegetables, fruit types, eat cabbage, radish and other cruciferous vegetables can significantly reduce the incidence of flat cell carcinoma. The researchers think this is because the rich in cruciferous vegetables can inhibit cancer of the ingredients - isothiocyanate.