Colourful diets can help prevent cancer!

Next time when you plan your diet chart, make sure there are colourful fruits and vegetables that not only prevent weight gain, but also save you from cancer.

It's very clear for all the top cancers that diet has an influence on your risk of getting cancers.

A dinner plate filled with all-white, starchy foods is not only high in carbohydrate content but also has fewer cancer-fighting vitamins and minerals.

And So you are lacking all of those protective agents and you're at risk for eating too many calories. The risk is about the same if you were eating micro-concentrations of dioxin or other pharmaceutical or other pesticide agents that might be harmful.

Bringing in colours to the dinner table through vegetables and fruits in the yellow, green, red and orange families. Fruits and vegetables contain thousands of micronutrients, which are vitamins and minerals from the plants.

These micronutrients have an antioxidant effect, reducing the amount of chemicals produced in the body. The nutrients including vitamins A, B and E, carotenoids, selenium and calcium work individually and together to protect the body.

The more richly colored vegetables pack more protective ingredients. So, spinach, broccoli, carrots and deep-hued berries such as blueberries or strawberries are preferrable to mashed potato.

It is amazing when you walk into a grocery store how much color there is in the fruit and vegetable section and how much lack of color there is everywhere else. So if you shop by color and try to mix that, you'll really make a big difference.

Since obesity is linked to a higher risk of cancer, controlling calories is key. A plant-based diet, filled with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, will also help control weight, as well as prevent heart disease and diabetes.

Look for fruits and vegetables with rich color and incorporate a variety of colors into your diet.

Buy canned or frozen fruits and vegetables. They have the samenutrients as the fresh stuff and are readily available year round.

Avoid grocery shopping when you're hungry, which leads to impulse buying.

Stay away from processed carbohydrates, which add no nutritional value beyond calories.