Grape Juice May Prevent Breast Cancer

On Thursday, Welch Foods released a statement concerning the findings of a new study that suggest drinking Concord grape juice is a possible breast cancer preventive.

Concord grapes are the deep purple grapes. The study suggests that a glass of 100% pure Concord grape juice a day can prevent the onset of breast cancer in women.

Different lifestyles and genetic predispositions also expose women to greater or lesser extents to the risk of breast cancer, but the study suggests that drinking the grape juice can mitigate one's risk.

This is not the first time that red or purple grapes or products made from them have been found to have a link with preventing cancer. In the last decade, many studies have been conducted into the "grape cure" for cancer.

Research suggests that cancer victims who have not let their condition get more than moderately advanced can cure their cancer by putting themselves on a radical grape diet. This diet consists of preparing and consuming nothing but red or purple grapes and grape juice and water for an extended period of time, generally two to four weeks. After that time, other healthy foods such as tomatoes can be added to the diet. Meat is avoided for up to a few months.

Those who promote the grape cure say that grapes, especially red or purple grapes, are extremely antiseptic and a powerful solvent of fatty deposits and malignant growths, while also being a tissue builder.

Many of us have also heard about the "French Diet". This talks about French people who live in that nation's Alsace region that eat a great amount of red meat and cheese, yet stay slender and live very long and healthy lives. It came to be realized after a time that the secret to their health and longevity in spite of their "bad" food eating habits was their three to four glasses of red wine consumed daily.

Chemicals in red wine such as resveratrols and tannins act as arterial scrapers, cleaning away the "plaque" that builds up in the body and especially comes from eating foods high in fats and protein and leads to circulatory and heart problems. These chemicals derive from the grapes.