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CANCER DIETARY GUIDELINES

Nutritional support is essential to feed your immune system, to beat cancer and to give you the strength to better tolerate cancer treatments. Eating a wholefoods diet composed of fresh fruits and vegetables will provide important vitamins, minerals and fibre necessary to reduce tumour size and eradicate unwanted cancer cells. Certain foods provide specific cancer-fighting biochemicals, called phytochemicals.

I found diet to be one of the most important supporting therapies available to me in my fight against cancer. Not only did it decrease my tumour size very rapidly, but also provided the right nutrients to maintain good energy levels, balanced emotions and prevented a variety of side effects caused from orthodox medical treatment. Follow the dietary recommendations listed below to prevent and conquer cancer, and to support your body’s immune system:

• Remove all refined, processed and devitalized foods from your diet. For example, aged, bruised, mouldy and deep-fried foods. Remove foods with additives, colours, flavours, white flour products, low/no nutrient foods and sugar-rich foods. Be aware of the effects of certain preservatives and colourings found in foods.

• Reduce or avoid the intake of foods that contain natural carcinogens such as smoked, pickled or barbecued foods. Avoid foods that contain artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, artificial colours, nitrates and nitrites.

• Reduce or avoid fat and deep fried foods – a high intake of these foods has been linked to breast, colon, ovarian and prostate cancers. A low-fat diet is thought to slow the spread of non-melanoma skin cancers. Always use olive oil in your cooking and flaxseed oil on your salads. Use avocado instead of margarine.

• Avoid tea and coffee. Tea (over three cups/day) depletes the body of zinc and iron. Coffee (over two cups/day) depletes adrenal gland function and congests the body’s liver. Use herbal teas as an alternative. Specific herbal teas used to fight cancer include red clover tea, pau d’arco tea, astragalus tea, dandelion tea, echinacea tea, essiac tea and green tea. Green tea contains polyphenols which stop the enzymes of cancer-producing substances. Chaparral tea is believed to have potent anti-tumour properties (use in moderation under professional guidance).

• Avoid alcohol, cigarette smoke and drugs.

• If you are in an occupation where you are exposed to chemicals or man-made electromagnetic frequencies, for example, farmers working with pesticides, miners and plastic makers in factories etc. try to avoid. If you cannot leave this occupation, take plenty of antioxidants and glutathione to detoxify heavy metals.

• Try to buy organic produce. Avoid all hormonally treated meats such as poultry and beef. Try to buy free range poultry, eggs and grain fed meats.

• Avoid irradiated foods and pesticide sprayed foods.

• Do not consume peanuts, junk foods, soft drinks, salt and sugar. Instead of salt use kelp, sea salt or a natural salt substitute.

• Try to avoid most yeast foods such as Vegemite, Promite and yeast powders.

• Limit your consumption of full fat dairy products. A small amount of natural acidophilus yogurt, ricotta cheese and cottage cheese is recommended. Fermented foods that contain lactobacillus acidophilus such as yogurt are essential to good digestive health. Sauerkraut is also very good. Soy milk is beneficial as it contains a compound called genistein, which is believed to inhibit oestrogen and hormonally sensitive tumours, particularly breast tumours.

• Foods to be eaten in high amounts include broccoli, soybeans, shitake mushrooms, mung beans, red dates, lentils, olives, organic citrus peel, sesame seeds, almonds, parsley and seaweeds.

• Eat five to six small meals per day to keep blood sugar levels balanced and to allow for plenty of nutrient-rich variety in your diet.

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