Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Cancer?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-12-09

Should aspirin be taken as a method for cancer prevention? The aspirin compounds naturally found in plant foods may help explain the lower cancer rates among those eating plant-based diets.

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To see the pros versus cons for people trying to prevent or treat heart attacks and stroke, see my previous video, Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-take-aspirin-to-prevent-heart-disease).

If the COX enzyme sounds familiar, I talked about it in my Anti-inflammatory Life is a Bowl of Cherries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-life-is-a-bowl-of-cherries/) video.

Where does one get “dietary nitrates” from? See: Vegetables Rate by Nitrate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetables-rate-by-nitrate/).

Do some plant foods have more aspirin than others? Definitely, in fact some foods have the same amount as a “baby” aspirin. Check out my next video: Plants with Aspirin Aspirations (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plants-with-aspirin-aspirations).

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