Dr. Dawn Mussalem

So there's research with berries that's so exciting, both for breast cancer prevention as well as breast cancer survivorship.

You won't believe this.

For every two servings a week, it can reduce the risk of breast cancer.

And for breast cancer survivors, it can reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer by 25%.

This was in the Nurses' Health Study.

Such cool data, right?

So berries, but guess what?

These purple sweet potatoes, can we talk about those?

There's 150% more anthocyanins in these purple sweet potatoes than there are in those berries.

So anthocyanins, like many of these other phytonutrients we see in these vegetables and fruits that we have here, they have the opportunity to come into our body.

And what we have is we have tumors, genes that will be turned on, and we have tumor genes that can be turned off.

That's how they function with the cancer.

And these different molecules can help to either make cancer turn off

so that it's not likely to have this proliferation, or they can even turn on things called tumor suppressor genes.

These tumor suppressor genes help to be the brakes on any cancer.

These are some of the most powerful vegetables when it comes to breast cancer.

And there's so many fun facts with it.

So if we look at this cauliflower and broccoli, these are beautiful cruciferous vegetables.

And maybe when I'm ready to cook these, I'll chomp on a few of these before I cook it.

And you know why?