Flashback Friday: Which Fruits and Vegetables Boost DNA Repair?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2019-06-21

Every hour, there are 800 incidents of DNA damage in our bodies. Which foods help us patch back up: apples, broccoli, celery, choy sum, lemons, lettuce, oranges, persimmons, or strawberries?

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If it’s not the vitamin C, what might it be? That’s the subject of my video Citrus Peels and Cancer: Zest for Life? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/citrus-peels-cancer-zest-life/).

Surprised that the lemon benefit was abolished by cooking? Find out which vegetables it may be best to eat raw in Best Cooking Method (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-cooking-method/).

What about cooked versus raw garlic? See my video Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Garlic and Onions (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/inhibiting-platelet-activation-with-garlic-and-onions).

For more on DNA protection and repair, see:
• Spicing Up DNA Protection (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/spicing-up-dna-protection/)
• Cancer, Interrupted: Garlic and Flavonoids (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-interrupted-garlic-flavonoids/)
• Benefits of Turmeric for Arsenic Exposure (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-turmeric-for-arsenic-exposure/)
• Carcinogen-Blocking Effects of Turmeric (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/carcinogen-blocking-effects-of-turmeric/)
• Eating Green to Prevent Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-green-to-prevent-cancer/)
• Can Green Tea Help Prevent Cancer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-green-tea-help-prevent-cancer/)
• Benefits of Turmeric for Arsenic Exposure (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-turmeric-for-arsenic-exposure/)
• Fighting Autism Brain Inflammation with Food (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-autism-brain-inflammation-with-food/)
• Blueberries for a Diabetic Diet and DNA Repair  (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/blueberries-for-a-diabetic-diet-and-dna-repair/)

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