Cancer is complicated. It kills millions of people around the world each year (see the American Cancer Society's website for more stats) and there's no magic bullet to cure it. So when the press starts fawning over a food that shows anticancer propertiesthe latest is carrotsit's healthy to have a little perspective. Join Gelf on a tour down BBC memory lane, and revisit some of that media outlet's numerous articles about the link between vegetables and cancer:
Carrots may help ward off cancer, Feb. 9 2005
Vegetable chemical fights cancer, May 10 2004
'Broccoli pill' could prevent cancer, Aug. 18 2002
Could cabbage prevent cancer?, Jan. 25 2005
Cancer benefit of vegetables queried, Feb. 14 2001
Vegetable 'link' to cancer, Feb. 16 2002
For best effect, open the sites one after another and toggle back and forth between them. Then try to go shopping for produce.
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