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The Concept of a Cancer Diet

JoAnn Guest

Mar 25, 2006 13:37 PST

 

 

http://www.cancertutor.com/AltTreatments/Alt_Diet.html

 

I remember reading the detailed diary of a person who was trying to

cure his own cancer with alternative treatments. I was puzzled why

his treatments weren't working until I came across an entry several

months into his treatment plan. He basically stated (after several

months of alternative treatments): " I decided to stop smoking. " What

is wrong with this picture? What is wrong is that he thought he

could treat his own cancer by popping pills. There is far more to

fighting cancer with alternative treatments than popping pills.

 

You cancer is aggressively trying to kill you. It will stop at

nothing until you are dead or you are more aggressive than it is! An

alternative treatment plan is not a passive endeavor, it is an

aggressive, fierce attack, or it simply won't work. This is why the

family and friends of a patient must be willing to help. There are

days when you may need a phone call every hour of the day. This is

why your mental toughness, meaning your determination to kill the

cancer, is so important. This is where your spirituality should come

into play and why people talk about holistic medicine.

 

There are certain things you absolutely must remember during any

cancer treatment. I will itemize several of these things. The book

by Jon Barron (see below) covers more details. These things apply to

everyone trying to treat their cancer.

 

No matter what treatment plan a person is on, the diet is just as

important as the treatment plan! Let me give you an example:

 

When taking orthodox drugs, you might encounter something like this:

Step 1: Take the yellow and green pills.

Step 2: Do not drink alcohol or tea after taking the pills.

 

 

What about the foods and drinks not specifically mentioned in Step 1

and Step 2? With orthodox medicine you are free to eat anything not

prohibited.

 

But with alternative cancer treatments just the opposite is true.

 

For example, let us consider a simplified Brandt Grape Cure diet:

Step 1: Grape Juice and natural water.

Step 2: Do not ingest any chlorine.

 

 

In this case, you are FORBIDDEN to eat any food that is not in Step

1, even though it is not listed in Step 2. Understand this: with

alternative treatments for cancer, what you don't eat is just as

important as what you are allowed to eat.

 

Most people who get cancer get it " because " of the things they have

eaten (or smoked) throughout their lives.

 

Thus, by default, if you want to reverse this trend, you need to

reverse your diet. A cancer diet severely restricts what you can

eat. By default, if it is not in the diet, don't eat it. The Step 2

items are simply the most damaging things to the diet.

 

 

A Few Details

As I will mention below in the warnings section in more detail,

avoid all chlorine in your diet. This means, for example, not

drinking soda pop or any other drinks that have been made by mixing

tap water with something else. You must always be thinking about

what you are eating and drinking!

 

You should absolutely avoid eating refined sugar and refined grains

and anything else refined.

 

Whole grain (not whole wheat) can be used instead of white flour or

wheat flour.

 

Sugar, and to a lesser degree white flour, feed the cancer cells.

Eating these things is like giving cancer cells a " free lunch " !

 

In addition, refined sugar and other simple sugars also interfere

with your immunity system.

 

These substances also interfere with getting Vitamin C and oxygen

into the cancer cells.

 

Sugar also depletes the body of key minerals and other nutrients

because of its acidity.

 

It is not the acidity that directly destroys the minerals, the

acidity causes the body to use the minerals to regulate the pH level

in the body.

 

Entire books have been written on the evils of refined sugar.

 

Even though you can't eat sugar or refined grains, make no mistake

about it, ALL man-made sweeteners (e.g. aspartame - NutraSweet) and

fat substitutes should also be avoided. This is a second reason all

soda

pops are out of the question. Soda pops are also acidic, which is a

third reason.

 

The only acceptable sugar substitute is Stevia, which is an herb.

 

If sugar is bad for people with cancer, how about honey, another

simple sugar? The jury is still out on honey, but based on the

evidence it seems raw (not pasteurized) honey is a positive thing to

take if you have cancer.

 

The bad news is that its simple sugars, fructose (38 percent) and

glucose (31 percent) " feed " cancer cells.

 

The good news is that honey contains powerful phenolic antioxidants.

It may be that honey is as good as grape juice at getting cancer

killing substances into the cancer cells (i.e. the sugars are a

transport agent to get the antioxidants into the cancer cells).

However, the exact quality and quantity of the antioxidants in

honey, in treating cancer, is unknown. Honey builds the immunity

system.

 

One thing that is known about honey is that the darker the honey the

better, as far as antioxidants are concerned. So for now, honey

should

be considered an acceptable food for those with cancer, particularly

the " darker " varieties.

 

Of course, there are exceptions.

 

Some treatment plans, such as the Breuss diet, do not work if there

are " excess sugars " in the diet, even if the sugars are transport

agents for antioxidants.

 

Other foods you should absolutely avoid are trans fats, meaning

trans fatty acids or partially hydrogenated oils. Trans fatty acids

may be one of the major causes of cancer. They become part of the

cell's wall

(replacing cholesterol) and make the cell rigid and anaerobic (i.e.

the first step to becoming cancerous).

 

Another bad food for cancer patients is polyunsaturated oils:

" polyunsaturated oils (corn oils sold in supermarkets everywhere)

promote the growth of small blood vessels (by promoting the

production of " bad " prostaglandins). "

 

This is bad for cancer because it allows tumors to grow new blood

vessels. However, these small blood vessels are good for preventing

strokes. Thus, while on a cancer diet avoid polyunsaturated oils.

 

If you have more than four months to live, you should spend the

first five days on a colon cleanse, while taking your new treatment.

This is

absolutely critical so that your colon can process and absorb the

nutrients in your alternative cancer diet. See the second treatment

article on the main page, Jon Barron, to find out how to do this. In

fact everyone should read Jon Barron's book (it is free!). You need

to keep studying as you are treating your cancer and Jon Barron's

book will give you the big picture of why you have cancer and how to

treat it. As an alternative you can read one of Hulda Clark's books

on cancer. She also uses a cleanse.

 

Need I even mention stopping smoking (no matter what kind of cancer

you have), because smoking puts more than 100 carcinogens in your

body. Need I even mention stopping drinking alcohol, which

interferes with some treatment plans.

 

Need I even mention caffeine (except when it is part of a treatment

plan), because caffeine restricts the blood vessels, meaning less

oxygen gets to the cancer cells.

 

 

Understanding What A Cancer Diet Is

Let us expand on this subject.

 

With regards to a cancer treatment, every food that we eat or drink

can be categorized into several different categories:

 

 

1) Foods that " feed " and " strengthen " the cancer cells (e.g. refined

sugar, refined flour, soda pop, etc.)

 

2) Foods that " cause " cancer (e.g. trans fatty acids [margarine,

french

fries and virtually every other processed food you buy], aspartame

[Diet Coke, NutraSweet, Equal, etc.], MSG, polyunsaturated oils

[e.g. canola, corn, soy, peanut oil], etc.)

 

3) Foods that " directly interfere " with alternative treatments for

cancer (e.g. chlorine, fluoride, alcohol, coffee, etc.)

 

4) Foods that " occupy " and " distract " the immunity system from

focusing

on killing the cancer cells (e.g. beef, pork, turkey, dairy

products,

etc.)

 

5) Foods that contain nutrients that kill the cancer cells, stop the

spread of cancer, or in some other way help treat the cancer (e.g.

purple grapes with seeds and skin, red raspberries with

seeds,organic

strawberries with seeds, broccoli, cauliflower, several herbs,

carrots, pineapples, almonds, etc.)

 

In addition there are things like cooking vegetables. The cooking

" destroys " the enzymes in the vegetables and make them far less

digestible and far less effective in treating cancer.

 

" Pasteurizing " fruit drinks also does this.

 

Ideally, during a cancer treatment, if foods are allowed on a

particular

diet, 100% of everything you eat should be in the category of " Foods

that contain nutrients that kill the cancer cells, stop the spread

of cancer, or in some other way help treat the cancer. "

 

Whenever you eat a food that is not in that category, you are

interfering with your cancer treatment! This is why so many cancer

diets are very high in certain raw vegetables and certain raw

fruits.

 

Juicing of certain raw vegetables and raw fruits is also good in

some

cases (but not all cases, especially when the seeds are important)

because the vegetables and fruits are more easily digested

(translation:

more nutrients get to the cancer cells). However, when you juice you

throw away a lot of nutrients.

 

Some cancer treatments are virtually 100% raw vegetables and raw

fruits.

Thus, by living on a diet of foods and drinks known to be harmful to

cancer cells and the spreading of the cancer, by combining this diet

with one or more cancer treatments (e.g. Essiac Tea), you are

supercharging the treatment, and just as importantly, not

interfering with the treatment.

 

But also understand that not all vegetables and fruits are equal at

treating cancer. Some vegetables do not contribute significantly to

treating cancer and some fruits do not contribute significantly to

treating cancer (at least not that we know of at the current time).

On the other hand, some vegetables are very potent cancer killers,

as are

some fruits. See my section on the " Raw Food " treatment plan for

more information.

 

This concept is so important I am going to say it another way.

Several

of the publicized alternative cancer treatments include a vegan

diet, meaning animal products are excluded and vegetables and fruits

are eaten raw, when possible. However, a vegan diet is not a good

cancer diet.

 

These vegan diets should be converted to a " raw food " diet, meaning

a vegan diet that is predominantly vegetables and fruits that are

known to treat cancer!

 

Are you beginning to understand why I say that you cannot treat

cancer by just " popping pills? "

 

When I read testimonials, and understand what people did to treat

their cancer, I am frequently amazed their treatment worked. My best

guess is that they intuitively " ate healthy foods " as part of their

cancer diet, but didn't mention that part.

 

But just " eating healthy foods " is not enough. You must eat ONLY

foods that are treating your cancer and you must eat only the best

foods that treat cancer.

 

 

What To Prepare For

When you go on a natural treatment for cancer, such as the grape

cure, hydrogen peroxide, raw food diet (i.e. carrot-based vegetable

juice),

etc. you can expect some strong reactions from the body. As Johanna

Brandt put it:

 

" The grape is, as far as I know, the most powerful nature solvent of

some chemical deposits, and at the same time the most drastic

eliminator. Because of its extraordinary properties, the avenues of

excretion become superbly active under a proper grape diet. " (page

102)

 

Other foods and treatments can also yield these results. Here are a

sample of things I have run into:

 

" I had chemotherapy coming out the pores of my skin, even though it

had been months since I had any. I had to take showers several times

a day

to wash this stuff off because it would burn my skin as it came out.

I

smelled putrid. It was just awful, the toxic stuff that was coming

out

of me. "

 

" Something else I noticed was that any time she had a bowel movement

(which became quite frequent after the start of the diet) it was so

foul

smelling, almost like she was excreting rotten flesh! "

 

" He is doing well at taking everything as he is supposed to. My

sister

said that she noticed a foul odor 'like it was coming out his pores'

last Sunday. She said it smelled horrible and was nauseating and

unbearable. "

 

And if you are on a colon flush, it gets worse: " He reported lumps

of

foul smelling substances that looked like 'rotten hamburger'

flushing

out of his colon, his urine was strong and dark, and he had

occasional

headaches. "

 

These symptoms, plus diarrhea, constipation, etc. can all result

from a

massive change in diet or the treatment itself. They are common,

they

are normal and they are an indication the treatment is working!

 

 

Exercise

I also want to emphasize exercise. Everyone knows that the

circulatory

system has a " pump, " called the heart, that pumps blood throughout

the

body.

 

 

" Like the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system is made up of

channels or vessels, valves and filters (nodes). Unlike the

bloodstream

system, however, there is no pump like the heart.

 

Instead, the lymphatic fluid is forced through the system by the

action

of the muscles and breathing. "

http://www.cbass.com/lymph.htm

 

The lymphatic system is critical to the immunity system and to the

treatment of cancer.

 

Exercise, deep breathing, etc. are things that will help the

lymphatic system do its job.

(moderator's note: Trampoline exercise is best for emptying the

lymphatic glands of toxic residues)

 

Many cancer patients, for a variety of reasons, are in no condition

to

go for long walks, jog, or do other types of exercise. However, the

good

news is that the arm muscles are just as good, and perhaps better,

at

pumping the lymphatic system as are the legs. Thus, lifting hand

weights

can accomplish much in helping the lymphatic system.

 

http://www.cancertutor.com/AltTreatments/Alt_Diet.html

 

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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:38 pm

Post subject: Diet May Affect How Our Bodies Fight Cancer

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The " Alternative Approach " column, Daily Herald, June 16, 2003, by

Patrick B. Massey M.D., Ph.D, Medical Director, Alexian Brothers

Hospital Network; President, ALT-MED Medical and Physical Therapy

Program, Elk Grove Village, IL

 

I recently gave a lecture on alternative therapies for cancer at the

Brookfield zoo. I was asked, " Why does it seem that cancer is

becoming

more common? "

 

I believe the answer is directly related to our diet.

 

Our food has a significant impact on our body's ability to fight to

cancer, infections and inflammation.

 

" Chronic inflammation " is believed to be one of the " pathways " by

which

normal cells are transformed into cancer cells.

 

David Rakel MD, director of Integrative Medicine at the University

of

Wisconsin in Madison, emphasized this idea in a recent lecture to

physicians at the Alexian Brothers Medical Center.

 

He believes it is related to the ratio of omega-6 and omega-3 fats

in

our diets. Omega-3 fats are found in abundance in pure fish oils.

 

Omega-6 fats are in many fried foods and processed, refined cooking

oils.

 

When there is an injury, cells release a 'compound'

called 'arachnadonic

acid'.

 

Arachnadonic acid comes from " omega-6 " fat and is transformed by the

body into a number of " compounds " that produce the feeling of pain

and

intensify inflammation.

 

Chronic inflammation may occur if there is a lot of omega-6 fat

available for transformation into arachnadonic acid.

 

Fortunately, the body also produces compounds that have the opposite

effect...reduce pain and inflammation.

Interestingly, omega-3 fat is the source for these pain-reducing

compounds.

 

Dr. Rakel stated that diets high in omega-6 fats promote autoimmune

disease, heart disease and a number of cancers. Breast, prostate and

bowel cancers are more common in people with a diet " high in omega-

6 "

fats.

 

People eating a high omega-6 diet also have more intense pain (even

to

minor injuries) and higher potential of developing chronic pain.

 

Cancer and pain may be the result of an " enhanced " inflammatory

response.

 

In contrast, a diet that is high in omega-3 fats has a reduced

inflammatory response and generally less pain to injury.

 

We also know that a high amount of dietary omega-3 fats produces a

lower

incidence of breast, prostate and bowel cancer.

 

Therefore, a diet that is high in omega-6 fat " intensifies "

inflammation

and promotes disease while a diet that is high in omega-3 fats

reduces

inflammation and promotes health.

 

A good balance of omega-6 to omega-3 fats is 1:1 to 3:1.

 

Our modern diets, however, have a ratio of about 30:1.

That tilts the balance in favor of inflammation and disease. We need

better odds.

 

" So how much fish do I need to eat? " Well, there can be a

significant

improvement in the fat ratio if you eat 1-3 servings per week (most

benefits are lost with fried fish).

 

For those of you who dislike fish, fish oil supplements may be the

key

(1000-1800 mg/day). Although there may be some concern for those

taking

blood thinners like Coumadin, fish and fish oil is safe and

healthful.

 

http://nowfoods.com/?action=itemdetail & item_id=14141

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