European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Toyo up health rating vegetables for health key ingredients 1 red Pepper a Hamlin c. A. A e. 2 Qreen Pepper Vitamin a a a e 3 caullflowerpotasslum.4bemgnent i Tarryn a Calcium potassium. S spinach Vitamin a. Potassium. 6 Romaine  a. 7 kale Vitamin a Calcium potassium Iron a Acorn i quoth Vitamin a potassium. 9 Clenott Vitamin a potassium. 10 canard Vitamin a potassium Calcium Iron. 11 new being Ron potassium Calcium. 12 Broccoli Vitamin a Calcium potassium. 13 soybean protein. 14 Bruste sprouts potassium. 15 car tic potassium. 18 endive Vitamin a. 17 Chrtt Vitamin. Calcium potassium. Moderately nutritious these vegetables prov be modest amounts of Vila los minerals and or dietary fiber Art Tehoke until cabbage pumpkin snap Green beam Snow peas potato Pinto Beans much room minimally nutritious composed of up to 95% water these vegetables contain Only Small amounts of vitamins and minerals Wotli Tomato Ai Paragus bits onion Cucumber iceberg Tot Tuce Sweet com Rob the vitamins May lower cancer risk by Peg Bohon United press International better diet might have saved More than a third of the nearly 400,000 americans who died of cancer last year according to Somo estimates of avoidable cancer risks. Thus Hopes Are High that researchers May someday find dread cancers could be avoided simply by taking daily Vitamin supplements which protect those who smoke Don t eat their fruits and vegetables and break other common sense rules for Good health. An Anli cancer Vitamin sounds almost too Good to be True but researchers have no ruled out such a possibility Paga 16 the stars and stripes and Are studying the protective Impact of certain micronutrient particularly in Iha Vitamin a family. Most of the studies that the present trials Are based on Are epidemiological ones that have shown thai people who eat foods High in these nutrients Vitamin a Bela carotene Vitamin e Hava lower rates of cancer with the inference that. The nutrients lower the risk for cancer said a Federal researcher. Two important Long term Micro nutrient studies Are scheduled Lor completion in 1992 and those results might be a turning Point said the researcher. Or Ritva Butrum. Chief of the die Branch of the National cancer Institute s division of cancer prevention and control. For now Butrum stressed Vitamin supplements remain of unknown value and even can be harmful at High dosages. Some can be toxic or reduce the body s ability o absorb other vitamins act minerals. Ii could be 10 years Belara doctors know whether end How vitamins prevent cancer she said. Indeed the relation of diet to cancer remains unproven although tuesday june 7,1968 some researchers have postulated that As Many a 35 percent of Talal cancer cases in the drilled slates each year May result from bad diet. Populations with the lowest cancer rates have been found to be those consuming diets Rich in whole grains fruits and Leafy vegetables and proportionally higher in polyunsaturated non animal fats. Additionally studies have related lower cancer rates to higher blood Levels of some forms of vitamins a c ande. A recent Issue of the journal medical week reported thai on the so Rengh of such evidence. The Sci is building a new 60-person prevention research lab in Frederick Maryland to study among other things the value of micronutrient. Vitamin a refers to two Basic micronutrient reinolds and carotenoids. In Ita Retinol form the kind in Vitamin Milfs Vitamin a aids cell growth. But the human body strictly limits the amount of Retinol passed into circulation. Unused amounts Are stored in the liver and can build up to toxic Levels