Grapes Effective for Cancer

Grapes comes with different color and varieties. The crunchy, dry, sweet, and tart flavor has made grapes popular between meal snack as well as refreshing addition to both fruit and vegetable salads.

The purple (Concord) grapes (with their skin and seeds), and to a slightly lesser degree red and black grapes, contain several nutrients that are known to kill cancer cells. These kinds of grapes also contain nutrients to stop the spread of cancer. They also help detoxify the body.

Grapes (Concord) has bioflavonoid known as quercetin. This works as an antioxidant and operates with Vitamin C to stimulate the immune system to fight infection, cancer, and inflammation. The seeds in grapes contain a substance called pyenogenols. This substance has a high degree of antioxidant and fights arthritis, cardiovascular problems, stress, and allergies.

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Grapes contain resveratrol. This chemical has been proven to impede prostate cancer growth, and stimulate apoptosis, the necessary death of unhealthy cells. Grape juice also contains anthocyanins and proauthocyanidins. These chemicals inhibit cancer of the breast by preventing DNA damage from carcinogens.

Furthermore, the resveratrol in grapes has been the aim of recent research. The University of Illinois says it slows down or stops the growth of tumors. Studies show it inhibits tumor growth at the initiation, promotion, and progression stages. France’s Liver Research Study Group says resveratrol helps prevent liver cancer by blocking the invasion of tumor cells. Science laboratories report findings that it stops the development of an enzyme linked to breast cancer.

The University of Wisconsin’s research shows that flavonoids in purple grape juice prevent the thickening of the arteries that hinder the flow of blood to the heart. Research continues to study the properties of grapes in the nation’s fight against cancer and heart disease.

Grapes Highly Recommended for Breast Cancer

Through a latest study, it has been discovered that purple colored Concord
grape juice helps in preventing breast cancer. Due to the anti-inflammatory effect of resveratrol present in grapes,this fruit is effective in colorectal cancer and breast cancer. Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins found in grapes have properties of an anti-proliferate and can inhibit the growth of cancer causing agents. Grape juice not just prevents the risk of cancer but also suppresses the growth and propagation of cancer cells. The pigments contained in grapes
enhance the overall immunity of the body.

Red grapes and grape seeds are a good source of resveratrol, which has the ability to suppress proliferation of breast cancer cells and promote cell death. Resveratrol also can inhibit aromatase(the synthesis of estrogen from androgens within the body), which is important for reducing growth-stimulatory effects in estrogen-dependent breast cancer. Resveratrol has also been shown to increase the effects of radiation treatment and the chemotherapy drug Taxol (paclitaxel) against breast cancer.

Moreover, grapes contain lupeol, which has been shown to have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Green or white grapes have less
powerful anticancer properties than red grapes since they contain fewer
polyphenols. Grapes also contain flavonoids that are very powerful antioxidants, which can reduce the damage caused by free radicals and slacken ageing.

Flavonoids are a group of organic compounds that include numerous
water-soluble plant pigments responsible for colors. They are more abundant in red than in white grapes.

Johanna Brandt Grape Cure For Cancer

Brandt Grape Cure as the “cancer diet” (Johanna Brandt Grape Diet) for one of the other highly potent treatments for advanced cancer patients.
Her book on the grape cure was published in the 1920s. R. Webster Kehr of Independent Cancer Research Foundation, Inc. have written a short summary article on the four stages of her original grape cure:

Original Brandt Grape Cure

The original diet involves 12 hours of fasting every day, followed by 12 hours where you consume absolutely nothing except grapes (and/or grape juice). The consumption of the grapes is spread out over the 12 hours, not just at meal times. In other words, they are consumed slowly over many hours, not quickly over two or three short bursts. After being on this phase of the diet for several weeks there were other phases, but the first phase is of most interest here.

First is the “water fast” (only for 12 hours a day) which allows for ONLY the consumption of “natural water” or “purified water” during the “fast” and/or “ionized water.” Chlorine is especially bad for this diet. The second type of “fast” is for the other 12 hours in a day, it also includes water, but also includes grapes and/or grape mush.

The water fasting makes the cancer cells “hungry,” and when the cells do get food, what they get is grape juice, which contains several major cancer killing nutrients, such as: ellagic acid, catechin, quercetin, oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPC) or procyanidolic oligomers (PCO), originally called: pycnogenol (seeds),resveratrol (skin coloring of purple
grapes),pterostilbene,selenium,lycopene,lutein,laetrile (amygdalin or Vitamin B17) (seeds),beta-carotene,caffeic acid and/or ferulic acid (together they kill cancer cells), and gallic acid.

In other words, the water fasting is used to “trick” the cancer cells into
consuming the first thing that comes along. The grapes become a great
“transport agent” for getting the poisons just mentioned into the cancer cells, meaning the cancer cells “steal” these nutrients (which turn out to be poisonous to the cancer cells) from the normal cells.

Cancer cells thrive on sugar and grape juice is virtually pure “sugar.” The water fast makes the cells hungry and when the grape juice becomes available, the cancer cells gobble up the sugar in the grapes or grape juice. But as the cells are ingesting the juice they are also consuming things that are poisonous to them. Think of putting poison in chocolate and giving it to a hungry child. That is exactly what the water fast, followed by the grape mush, do to a cancer cell.

Cancer cells eat many times more of the glucose and other sugars than a
regular cell does, plus it eats far more minerals and some other nutrients than a regular cell. Thus, the combination of consuming far more glucose, minerals and other nutrients, plus the (water) fasting, makes the purple grapes an exceptional cancer-fighting food. The water fast is absolutely critical to this treatment, and should not be taken lightly!

In fact, the great secret to the grape cure is that cancer cells are very inefficient at processing glucose and other sugars.Cancer cells consume about 15 times more glucose and other sugars than regular cells. To insure the patient gets all of the main killer nutrients, the grape juice should include crushed seeds (in order to get the OPCs) and the nutrients from the purple skins (to get the critical resveratrol). The purple color, such as in concord purple grapes, has a critical cancer killing nutrient not found in other grapes.

The darker the purple grapes the better. (Note: Because purple grapes and red grapes are so frequently confused with each other, it is not clear exactly how good red grapes are. This is why you should look for the word “concord” on the package, although there are purple grapes other than concord grapes that are just as good.

Grapes Health Benefits

Grapes, owing to their high nutrient content, play an important role in ensuring a healthy and robust life.Grapes are rich sources of vitamins A, C, B6 and folate in addition to essential minerals like potassium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium and selenium.

Grapes assimilates asthma, prevents heart diseases and migrane, overcome constipation, cure indigestion,prevents fatigue, helps reduce acidity in kidneys, succumbing Alzheimer’s disease, prevent mascular degeneration, prevents cataract, lowers high blood cholesterol and it has antibacterial activity to protect you from infections.

Thus, grapes play a pivotal role in preventing innumerable health disorders and can be used as home based remedies for several ailments. Dried grapes, known as raisins, are extremely nutritious and help in many disorders including constipation, acidosis, anemia, fever, sexual weakness and help in gaining weight and eye care. Read more about benefits of raisins.

Note: Buy grapes that are organically grown.Non-organic (especially imported) grapes must be washed very thoroughly to remove pesticide residue.