Firstly, cancer stole all the limelight and its subcategories went on haunting different individuals. If it is not of the liver or the breast, then it has to be necessarily of the colon. The issues surrounding colon have become so widespread that you'll find several "Colon Cleanse" emails flocking your email ID every alternate day.
People may seem to give some amount of importance to these ads with a steady rise in colon cancer cases. And this again proves that the sentence "prevention is better than cure" is just a set of words to be spoken for motivation and not for actual implementation.
If people would have really followed it, they would have included high-fiber foods in their diet and there wouldn't have been so many complaints on colon health. But now, a recent study conducted by California researchers has proved that a high fiber diet can reduce the risk of colon polyps.
Researchers followed 2,818 study subjects for 26 years. In this study period, around 441 cases of colon polyps were diagnosed among the subjects. It was found that brown rice consumption for at least once a week could reduce the risk of colon polyps by 40 percent. The same risk was found to be 33 percent lower in subjects who consumed legumes for at least three times a week.
The consumption of dried food items for at least thrice a week was found to be associated with a 26 percent reduced risk of colon cancer compared to the consumption of these foods for less than once a week. The consumption of cooked green vegetables for once daily was found to be associated with a 24 percent lower risk in comparison to their consumption for less than five times a week.
Facts and figures will come and go. But we need to counsel ourselves to believe them. And we should admit that "crimes" are deliberate. After all, we can wake up if we are really sleeping. And there is no awakening if we are already awake.
