Dietary Info for cancer

Hi semi-colons,

This is a continuation of my healing cancer with diet thread headed Juicing.

Many of you have emailed me about some specifics that I have done over the past three years to stay cancer free and not having done chemo. I have shared my vitamin and supplement lists, and Eastern healing practices such as acupuncture and massage and lymphatic drainage, but I haven't spoken much about the macrobiotics that I also implemented to some degree.

Macrobiotics have been known to cure cancer for 1/3 of the folks who do it. In a nutshell it is eating in balance as close to the center as possible---whole grains, veggies, fruit and a small amount of fish and poultry. It focuses on fermented foods such as miso (a fermented soy paste that you make into a broth) that was found to cleanse the body of radiation poisoning following WWII bombing of Japan. It helps to detox and move things along through the digestive process. It provieds good bacteria that helps enzymes.

It has been proven so effective that the Kushi Institute was given a grant to study why macrobiotics cure cancer. This is huge!! The "establishment" is finally acknowledging the power of a pure diet in curing cancer.

A wonderful book on the subject is:

The Cancer Pervention Diet by Muchio Kushi.

A personal testimony story is:

When Hope Never Dies by Marlene McKenna

(I think that is her last name--books are still packed away so i cannot check for sure right now).

Then today I received my latest issue of Alternative Medicine magazine and there is an article about a woman with Stage IV lung cancer that had spread all around her abdomen. One doctor gave her 2-6 weeks and another gave her at most 6 months. She is alive 9 years later!!

"....revealing three tumors in her left lung and seven in her right--and the disease had spread. Her liver housed three tumors, she had another in her pancreas, and yet another was causing her abdomen to swell."

She took one dose of chemo and lost 46 pounds and felt so ill that she stopped any chemo. It was her oncologist who suggested she try macrobiotics.

At the time of starting the program she was "....on oxygen, bald, my nails were blue, and my color was gray."

She ended up finding a macrobiotic counselor who helped her to learn the how-to.

As for me, I bought Kushi's book and implemented much of his philosophy. A friend would cook me a few macro meals a week and I made very simple ones like rice sushi and steamed veggies with brown rice, miso broth, etc. I bought a macro cookbook which I really like but the title has flown from my mind at the moment (dang). When I unpack it I'll add it the list.

Chinese Medicine is not a real big proponant of juicing because it is "cold and wet", but in my research I felt it was right for me so I combined the two.

I also kept track of my pH level daily. You can purchase a little roll of litmus paper that you pee on (or use your spit) and it will give you your pH level in seconds. It is very important to stay in a healthy alkaline state. Cancer loves an acid state and that comes from food far from center--such as meat and sugar and dairy. They are way too yin or yang.

Now if this all sounds too New Age or freaky for you just now that I am not a New Ager AT ALL!! It is just Eastern medicine rather than Western Medicine. It is a belief system based on the body's ability to heal itself when brought into balance.

In Western Medicine the body is really not expected to "heal" but the disease is managed by series of drugs. How often in Western Medicine do you hear your doctor trying to find the source of you anemia or does he just give you iron shots. When you have migraines are you tested for food allergies or are you, like me, put on drugs to try to supress the migraines; and how many, like me, still had migraines or worse..double vision?? When are we challenged to get off sugar or alcohol or dairy or processed foods and see if the headaches are cured? Well thank God my osteopath did just that and my migraines got better. the neurosurgeon was stumped when after he put me on drugs the migraines kept coming. He had no answers. My ostoepath did because he searched for the root cause.

I happen to like Western dignostics like colonoscopies, but I prefer Eastern Medicine for healing better. It's not an all or nothing proposition but a melding of the two---completing a circle from East to West. Each half is missing something when they ignore the other half.

So get out the tofu and toss out the cheese, replace your mashed potatoes with some brown rice, some miso instead of gravy and just see what can happen to your CEA or your tumors or whatever.

When it's your life what do you have to lose by trying?

peace, emily who will be having sushi and wasabi tonight and thinking of you all