6 doctor-recommended anti-cancer soups to help prevent colon cancer

A healthy gut means a more effective defense against cancer for the body. A doctor recommends 6 anti-cancer longevity soups that not only warm the body but also help prevent colon cancer and promote gut health. What's more, these soups are made with affordable, everyday ingredients and are simple, delicious to prepare.

How Does Gut Health Help Prevent Cancer?

According to Japanese media Shukan PRIME, Dr. Sato Norihiro, a professor at Teikyo University's Fukuoka Faculty of Medical Technology and a leading cancer treatment authority, shares that approximately 70% of the body's immune cells are concentrated in the gut. Therefore, gut issues affect overall health, and maintaining a healthy gut environment is crucial for preventing diseases like cancer. Research proves that populations with higher counts of beneficial gut bacteria have lower incidence rates of colon cancer.

Hence, Sato shares the following 6 soups beneficial for colon health and preventing colon cancer. These soups utilize various powerful anti-cancer ingredients, including his top recommendations for improving gut environment: yam and burdock root. Burdock root is rich in dietary fiber that improves gut environment, with a good balance of soluble and insoluble fiber, both vital for cancer prevention. Yam contains resistant starch, which is hard to digest, reaching the intestines directly to become food for beneficial gut bacteria, aiding intestinal regulation.

6 Anti-Cancer Longevity Soup Recipes:

1. Broccoli "Salt Mapo" Soup

• Anti-Cancer Ingredients: Broccoli, Enoki Mushrooms
• Method: Sauté minced chicken with enoki, add broccoli, firm tofu, water, seasoning, thicken with potato starch slurry.

2. Mixed Vegetable Noodle Soup

• Anti-Cancer Ingredients: Cabbage, Shimeji Mushrooms
• Method: Sauté minced pork with cabbage, carrot, shimeji mushrooms, corn. Add water, oyster sauce, soy sauce, ginger, cook. Finally stir in milk and heat through.

3. Onion Chicken Soup

• Anti-Cancer Ingredients: Onion, Garlic
• Method: Marinate chicken drumettes with salt koji and salt. Simmer with sliced onion, rice, garlic, ginger, water. Finish with sesame oil, pepper.

4. Mackerel & Root Vegetable Curry Soup

• Anti-Cancer Ingredients: Mackerel, Burdock Root, Onion, Garlic
• Method: Sauté garlic, curry powder. Add canned mackerel (with juice), burdock, lotus root, onion, carrot, water, ketchup, oyster sauce, miso. Simmer.

5. Yam & Cucumber Chilled Soup

• Anti-Cancer Ingredient: Yam
• Method: Blend or mix grated yam, salted/cucumber (squeezed), firm tofu, miso, white sesame, bonito flakes, ginger with cold water. Chill. Serve garnished.

6. Versatile Tomato Soup Base & Two Serving Ideas

• Base: Sauté/microwave chopped onion with salt. Simmer with canned crushed tomatoes, mirin, ketchup. Cool, mix in bonito flakes.
  • Recipe A: Sardine & Burdock Tomato Stew: Sauté garlic, burdock, potato. Add water, simmer. Add canned sardines, tomato base, cherry tomatoes, simmer. Top with cheese powder.
  • Recipe B: Tomato Cream Soup: Mix tomato base and miso into warm soy milk (or milk). Sprinkle black pepper.