Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 The Concept of a Cancer Diet 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 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 also 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. corn 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, 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, 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. 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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