Foods to eat after treatment

hopeful girl 1
hopeful girl 1 Member Posts: 454
I have been reading that it is best to treat meat as a side dish and have most of your plate consist of plant foods. Does everyone do this?

Just wondering what the typical diet is for those in remission post treatments.

Thanks!

Hugs!

Cindy

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  • llight
    llight Member Posts: 99
    Foods post-treatment
    Eat from the farm, not the factory is the motto I’ve been taught. Lots of whole plant foods. Yes, no meat or minimal is the word on that. No juice, sugar. I’ve gotten my info from an onc nutritionist and integrative oncologist at the hospital. These links should help answer the specifics. Hope these help.

    Which Foods Hinder a Woman's Fight Against Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams, Integrative Oncologist—4 mins.
    http://www.5min.com/Video/Which-Foods-Hinder-a-Womans-Fight-Against-Cancer-231378516

    Nutrition and Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams—58 mins. Excellent lecture on how to eat.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZFcIbwCZg

    Here’s Dr. Oz’s Anticancer shopping list
    http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/anti-cancer-shopping-list

    Many vitamin D researchers are learning more and more about this vitamin everyday. If you want more info on this let me know. The latest I’ve read from academic sources is:
    Vit D3 can "induce differentiation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce cell death.”

    best,
    llight
  • hopeful girl 1
    hopeful girl 1 Member Posts: 454
    llight said:

    Foods post-treatment
    Eat from the farm, not the factory is the motto I’ve been taught. Lots of whole plant foods. Yes, no meat or minimal is the word on that. No juice, sugar. I’ve gotten my info from an onc nutritionist and integrative oncologist at the hospital. These links should help answer the specifics. Hope these help.

    Which Foods Hinder a Woman's Fight Against Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams, Integrative Oncologist—4 mins.
    http://www.5min.com/Video/Which-Foods-Hinder-a-Womans-Fight-Against-Cancer-231378516

    Nutrition and Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams—58 mins. Excellent lecture on how to eat.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZFcIbwCZg

    Here’s Dr. Oz’s Anticancer shopping list
    http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/anti-cancer-shopping-list

    Many vitamin D researchers are learning more and more about this vitamin everyday. If you want more info on this let me know. The latest I’ve read from academic sources is:
    Vit D3 can "induce differentiation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce cell death.”

    best,
    llight

    Thanks
    Will have to cheeck thisout. Thanks!
    Interested in Vitamin D info also.
  • llight
    llight Member Posts: 99

    Thanks
    Will have to cheeck thisout. Thanks!
    Interested in Vitamin D info also.

    Vit D3 info
    You’re welcome. Probably best to check the info here: http://csn.cancer.org/node/209091

    --Get your blood tested for serum D (the test is called: 25(OH)D) from your doc
    --The oil gelcaps of Vitamin D3 are the ones to take; they are over the counter
    --It is safe to take up to 10,000ius of D3/day (per Robert P. Heaney)
    --The formula to use to start is 75ius/kg/day (you can get a lb-kg calculator on the Net)
    --Get retested every month/three months/five months depending on what your first level is.
    --Garland is recommending ” Patients with…endometrial…cancer should receive the amount of vitamin D supplementation needed to raise serum 25(OH)D to 60-90 ng/ml. This may require 4000-7000 IU/day of vitamin D3….” (cited from the prev post)
    --All of this needs to be done under the supervision of your doctor.

    If you have any other questions or want more Vit D resources let me know. Please note I am sharing academic info from researchers who have been doing Vit D research for thirty years; not from the recent (misinformed) media reports on this subject.

    best,
    llight
  • HeartofSoul
    HeartofSoul Member Posts: 729 Member
    llight said:

    Foods post-treatment
    Eat from the farm, not the factory is the motto I’ve been taught. Lots of whole plant foods. Yes, no meat or minimal is the word on that. No juice, sugar. I’ve gotten my info from an onc nutritionist and integrative oncologist at the hospital. These links should help answer the specifics. Hope these help.

    Which Foods Hinder a Woman's Fight Against Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams, Integrative Oncologist—4 mins.
    http://www.5min.com/Video/Which-Foods-Hinder-a-Womans-Fight-Against-Cancer-231378516

    Nutrition and Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams—58 mins. Excellent lecture on how to eat.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZFcIbwCZg

    Here’s Dr. Oz’s Anticancer shopping list
    http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/anti-cancer-shopping-list

    Many vitamin D researchers are learning more and more about this vitamin everyday. If you want more info on this let me know. The latest I’ve read from academic sources is:
    Vit D3 can "induce differentiation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce cell death.”

    best,
    llight

    sorry im not convinced. i
    sorry im not convinced. i know Vit D sounds so inviting and gentle with unlimited potential to unlock the ravages of cancer that how can we survivie without it. I see lots of info out there, some of which is unfounded and actually expects the public to believe hook, line and sink that Vit D3 can "induce differentiation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce cell death. You cant defeat your enemy without knowing both the enemy intimately
    and maintain ones own objectivity. Cancer is a vastly complex and dynamic multitude of diseases and differientiates at the celluar and genetic level with over hundreds of types and subtypes. Cancer is a web of proteins, mutations, viruses, genetics, pathways, carciogentics, and immune system properties to name a few which require very specific strategies to have a chance of slowing the proliferation of cancer cell division.

    Medicine will get there, one cancer at a time, one baby step followed by periodic hurdles and setbacks. I feel nutrition plays a much larger role in minimizing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and strokes.
  • HellieC
    HellieC Member Posts: 524 Member
    llight said:

    Foods post-treatment
    Eat from the farm, not the factory is the motto I’ve been taught. Lots of whole plant foods. Yes, no meat or minimal is the word on that. No juice, sugar. I’ve gotten my info from an onc nutritionist and integrative oncologist at the hospital. These links should help answer the specifics. Hope these help.

    Which Foods Hinder a Woman's Fight Against Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams, Integrative Oncologist—4 mins.
    http://www.5min.com/Video/Which-Foods-Hinder-a-Womans-Fight-Against-Cancer-231378516

    Nutrition and Cancer, Dr. Donald Abrams—58 mins. Excellent lecture on how to eat.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZFcIbwCZg

    Here’s Dr. Oz’s Anticancer shopping list
    http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/anti-cancer-shopping-list

    Many vitamin D researchers are learning more and more about this vitamin everyday. If you want more info on this let me know. The latest I’ve read from academic sources is:
    Vit D3 can "induce differentiation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce cell death.”

    best,
    llight

    Thanks llight for the anti cancer foods links
    Thank you so much for the anticancer food links. I have been looking for some sites where I could get recipes etc. In England we have a place called the Bristol Cancer Centre, which also advocates a similar wholefood diet to the Dr. Oz approach. There are some minor differences (the Bristol diet allows a little white meat e.g. chicken) but it is broadly the same.

    But Dr Oz includes a daily glass of red wine - so that's the diet for me! LOL!

    I will be finishing my 6 cycles of carboplatin/taxol on 19th January, so I am researching various vitamin supplements and alternative therapies to take once conventional medicine takes a break for me. So far, I seem to have a supplements list which includes Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Digestive Enzymes, Vitamin B17 (apricot kernels - a very hotly debated issue), multivitamins, alkaline water etc. At this rate, I will be spending my day popping pills instead of getting on with living! So there is a balance to be found!

    But I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the need to be "doing something active" to keep my cancer at bay for as long as possible. I would always choose conventional medicine over alternative therapies as my primary regimen, but when there is no conventional approach being taken, then I feel the need to fill the gap!

    Thanks for all your information.
    Helen
  • kkstef
    kkstef Member Posts: 688 Member
    HellieC said:

    Thanks llight for the anti cancer foods links
    Thank you so much for the anticancer food links. I have been looking for some sites where I could get recipes etc. In England we have a place called the Bristol Cancer Centre, which also advocates a similar wholefood diet to the Dr. Oz approach. There are some minor differences (the Bristol diet allows a little white meat e.g. chicken) but it is broadly the same.

    But Dr Oz includes a daily glass of red wine - so that's the diet for me! LOL!

    I will be finishing my 6 cycles of carboplatin/taxol on 19th January, so I am researching various vitamin supplements and alternative therapies to take once conventional medicine takes a break for me. So far, I seem to have a supplements list which includes Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Digestive Enzymes, Vitamin B17 (apricot kernels - a very hotly debated issue), multivitamins, alkaline water etc. At this rate, I will be spending my day popping pills instead of getting on with living! So there is a balance to be found!

    But I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the need to be "doing something active" to keep my cancer at bay for as long as possible. I would always choose conventional medicine over alternative therapies as my primary regimen, but when there is no conventional approach being taken, then I feel the need to fill the gap!

    Thanks for all your information.
    Helen

    More good nutrition info
    I recommend that you read: Anticancer A new Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD
    You can also check out the website at: www.anticancerways.com

    A great source of GOOD info....

    Karen
  • jazzy1
    jazzy1 Member Posts: 1,379

    sorry im not convinced. i
    sorry im not convinced. i know Vit D sounds so inviting and gentle with unlimited potential to unlock the ravages of cancer that how can we survivie without it. I see lots of info out there, some of which is unfounded and actually expects the public to believe hook, line and sink that Vit D3 can "induce differentiation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce cell death. You cant defeat your enemy without knowing both the enemy intimately
    and maintain ones own objectivity. Cancer is a vastly complex and dynamic multitude of diseases and differientiates at the celluar and genetic level with over hundreds of types and subtypes. Cancer is a web of proteins, mutations, viruses, genetics, pathways, carciogentics, and immune system properties to name a few which require very specific strategies to have a chance of slowing the proliferation of cancer cell division.

    Medicine will get there, one cancer at a time, one baby step followed by periodic hurdles and setbacks. I feel nutrition plays a much larger role in minimizing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and strokes.

    Vitamin D - Heartofsoul
    I do understand your concern, but much of what llight has presented comes from research going on for 30+ years. Not like someone just started in this area, but been going on for quite a while. Many articles don't have the backing with research and those I'd just not continue to read....unbased. I'd suggest reading some of the research she suggests, as I'm right with her on the recommendations.

    Presently I take 7000 iu/day, as prior to Winter months with not much time in sun, was taking 5000 iu/day. Had my first serum level test completed in October and it was 67. Note, recommendation with cancer patients 60-90 level. This number brougth smiles to my doc and myself.

    MY SUGGESTION --- Worth your time to read more into vitamin D....

    Take care,
    Jan
  • jazzy1
    jazzy1 Member Posts: 1,379
    kkstef said:

    More good nutrition info
    I recommend that you read: Anticancer A new Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD
    You can also check out the website at: www.anticancerways.com

    A great source of GOOD info....

    Karen

    Book
    Another very detailed book I'd suggest --

    FOODS TO FIGHT CANCER, Essential foods to help prevent cancer
    by RIchard Belkiveau, PhD and Denis Gingras, PhD

    Happy reading,
    Jan
  • Songflower
    Songflower Member Posts: 608
    jazzy1 said:

    Book
    Another very detailed book I'd suggest --

    FOODS TO FIGHT CANCER, Essential foods to help prevent cancer
    by RIchard Belkiveau, PhD and Denis Gingras, PhD

    Happy reading,
    Jan

    Cancer Diet
    Just a small note My Gyn Onc told me that it is much better to get antiantidoxants from food. So have your berries, fruit, etc. daily. I think taking too many vitamins and supplements that have not been studied can be dangerous. It is better to eat a healthy diet. It is very anxiety causing when you finish treatment and realize how safe you felt on that chemo. I felt like I was walking on thin ice and about to drop in at any moment. This takes time; you are being monitored carefully for recurrance.


    Diane
  • Susanna23
    Susanna23 Member Posts: 66 Member
    HellieC said:

    Thanks llight for the anti cancer foods links
    Thank you so much for the anticancer food links. I have been looking for some sites where I could get recipes etc. In England we have a place called the Bristol Cancer Centre, which also advocates a similar wholefood diet to the Dr. Oz approach. There are some minor differences (the Bristol diet allows a little white meat e.g. chicken) but it is broadly the same.

    But Dr Oz includes a daily glass of red wine - so that's the diet for me! LOL!

    I will be finishing my 6 cycles of carboplatin/taxol on 19th January, so I am researching various vitamin supplements and alternative therapies to take once conventional medicine takes a break for me. So far, I seem to have a supplements list which includes Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Digestive Enzymes, Vitamin B17 (apricot kernels - a very hotly debated issue), multivitamins, alkaline water etc. At this rate, I will be spending my day popping pills instead of getting on with living! So there is a balance to be found!

    But I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the need to be "doing something active" to keep my cancer at bay for as long as possible. I would always choose conventional medicine over alternative therapies as my primary regimen, but when there is no conventional approach being taken, then I feel the need to fill the gap!

    Thanks for all your information.
    Helen

    Food thoughts
    Hi Helen - we have already 'met' on a UK website! I didn't know the Bristol Cancer Help Centre was still going. Anyway, over Christmas I've been studying Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber and it makes a lot of sense to me (I'm a freelance medical/health journalist and I'd already written up a lot of these studies for a website I used to work for). I already do a lot of these things - been a vegetarian for 30 years, we eat lots of berries etc. I have been taking 2000 IU Vit D3 ever since I was diagnosed (I have a colleague who has done a lot of work on vit D and I respect his efforts) I have added Sencha green tea to my daily routine and the turmeric/black pepper/olive oil combo (just bought big bag of turmeric from local Tesco Asian dept). Also since the diagnosis I've been taking Viridian beauty oil - just pouring a couple of teaspoons onto food - it's got a mix of omegas in it with flax seed oil etc. Got given a couple of bottles as a freebie at a a press event several months ago and never thought anything of it - because then I didn't have cancer lol. Then when I had a another look at it, I thought why not give it a go...
    Husband is very keen on this approach also - he's always been very keen on healthy eating and we're both big red wine fans.
    But I don't want to be too 'alternative' - at heart I am a scientist and I will be going to start my chemo on Tuesday in a positive ('chemo is my friend') state ne of mind - and will also mention the vit D supplement to the doctor in case it is contraindicated. The self-help is to stop me feeling too helpless in this situation, really. I have seen so many brave posts on this site and others about people just getting on with their lives - I don't find it so easy!
    I was interested to see the doctor Oz tips - my hospital offers aromatherapy etc but no nutritional guidance. It's interesting that the Servan Schreiber approach is being tested at MD Anderson. And how his book describes why that's so unusual!
    Take care
    Susan
  • llight
    llight Member Posts: 99
    Susanna23 said:

    Food thoughts
    Hi Helen - we have already 'met' on a UK website! I didn't know the Bristol Cancer Help Centre was still going. Anyway, over Christmas I've been studying Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber and it makes a lot of sense to me (I'm a freelance medical/health journalist and I'd already written up a lot of these studies for a website I used to work for). I already do a lot of these things - been a vegetarian for 30 years, we eat lots of berries etc. I have been taking 2000 IU Vit D3 ever since I was diagnosed (I have a colleague who has done a lot of work on vit D and I respect his efforts) I have added Sencha green tea to my daily routine and the turmeric/black pepper/olive oil combo (just bought big bag of turmeric from local Tesco Asian dept). Also since the diagnosis I've been taking Viridian beauty oil - just pouring a couple of teaspoons onto food - it's got a mix of omegas in it with flax seed oil etc. Got given a couple of bottles as a freebie at a a press event several months ago and never thought anything of it - because then I didn't have cancer lol. Then when I had a another look at it, I thought why not give it a go...
    Husband is very keen on this approach also - he's always been very keen on healthy eating and we're both big red wine fans.
    But I don't want to be too 'alternative' - at heart I am a scientist and I will be going to start my chemo on Tuesday in a positive ('chemo is my friend') state ne of mind - and will also mention the vit D supplement to the doctor in case it is contraindicated. The self-help is to stop me feeling too helpless in this situation, really. I have seen so many brave posts on this site and others about people just getting on with their lives - I don't find it so easy!
    I was interested to see the doctor Oz tips - my hospital offers aromatherapy etc but no nutritional guidance. It's interesting that the Servan Schreiber approach is being tested at MD Anderson. And how his book describes why that's so unusual!
    Take care
    Susan

    You're welcome & doctor quotes
    You're welcome sisters!

    I like to follow the academic research. It's important to look closely at who is providing the research and what they are to financially gain from such research. As Dr. Heaney said in the Omaha Vitamin D Symposium video, "Vitamin D3 is cheap and that's one of the reasons why there's no commercial push for it."

    I agree with Susan that self-help measures are empowering. Where there’s empowerment, there’s hope.

    Two quotes to leave you with:
    Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, Neuroscientist and 17 year brain cancer survivor:
    “…For the last 40 years, all of oncology has been focused on destroying cancer cells….We spent between 150 and 200 billion dollars on cancer research in the last 40 years and we’ve improved the median survival of metastatic cancer, which is really the only one that kills you, by 3 months….So maybe we’re not pursuing quite the right roadmap. And what [I and others are] saying…is that yes it’s great to kill cancer cells but obviously it doesn’t seem to be enough. It is important, at the same time, to strengthen the body’s ability to resist cancer by creating an inhospitable terrain to cancer growth. And you can do both at the same time. This is not about alternative medicine.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDt3AJQ98c

    Dr. Alan Pocinki, Washington, DC Internist:
    “We don't have evidence for much of what we do in medicine, but if you wait for the evidence, you may be depriving your patients of beneficial treatments." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704584804575645023841631864.html

    best,
    llight
  • HellieC
    HellieC Member Posts: 524 Member
    Susanna23 said:

    Food thoughts
    Hi Helen - we have already 'met' on a UK website! I didn't know the Bristol Cancer Help Centre was still going. Anyway, over Christmas I've been studying Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber and it makes a lot of sense to me (I'm a freelance medical/health journalist and I'd already written up a lot of these studies for a website I used to work for). I already do a lot of these things - been a vegetarian for 30 years, we eat lots of berries etc. I have been taking 2000 IU Vit D3 ever since I was diagnosed (I have a colleague who has done a lot of work on vit D and I respect his efforts) I have added Sencha green tea to my daily routine and the turmeric/black pepper/olive oil combo (just bought big bag of turmeric from local Tesco Asian dept). Also since the diagnosis I've been taking Viridian beauty oil - just pouring a couple of teaspoons onto food - it's got a mix of omegas in it with flax seed oil etc. Got given a couple of bottles as a freebie at a a press event several months ago and never thought anything of it - because then I didn't have cancer lol. Then when I had a another look at it, I thought why not give it a go...
    Husband is very keen on this approach also - he's always been very keen on healthy eating and we're both big red wine fans.
    But I don't want to be too 'alternative' - at heart I am a scientist and I will be going to start my chemo on Tuesday in a positive ('chemo is my friend') state ne of mind - and will also mention the vit D supplement to the doctor in case it is contraindicated. The self-help is to stop me feeling too helpless in this situation, really. I have seen so many brave posts on this site and others about people just getting on with their lives - I don't find it so easy!
    I was interested to see the doctor Oz tips - my hospital offers aromatherapy etc but no nutritional guidance. It's interesting that the Servan Schreiber approach is being tested at MD Anderson. And how his book describes why that's so unusual!
    Take care
    Susan

    Hi Susan
    Small world! I guess we ladies are part of quite an exclusive club so we are bound to come across each other wherever we post!
    Thanks for your information and particularly your thoughts about vitamin D3. I think those of us who live in the northern hemisphere and have indoor jobs (I work in clinical research, reviewing the data from patients in clinical trials) are pretty likely to be vitamin D deficient, so it seems a good place to start.
    I am not naturally into "alternative" therapies, but I know that once my chemo stops that I will need to feel that I am doing something else to fight off the cancer. So I find myself embracing things that my "pre cancer" self would not have even considered at the vaguest level.
    From my internet research, I reckon that there is only about a 30-35% chance that the taxol/carbo chemo combo I am taking will result in a complete response. My remaining cancer is also microscopic, so we have no way of knowing what response we have achieved, because it is too small to measure (my CA 125 started at 14 before treatment and is now at 12, so that isn't really telling us anything as there is a margin for error in all these results). We can only measure succcess or failure by whether it recurs (or not)! That's pretty scary.
    I am thinking positive, eating lots of veggies and fruit, trying to wean myself off my sweet tooth (terribly hard) and will be popping the supplements, including the apricot kernels, vitamins D3 and C and digestive enzymes. It may be mumbo jumbo, but at least if the cancer comes back, I will feel that I have done everything I could do. I don't want to look back and think "if only I'd tried this or that".
    However, apart from the dietary changes, I am not introducing anything until after the chemo, as like you, I am fundamentally a scientist and want to give conventional medicine it's full shot before I turn to the slightly whackier approaches!
    Kindest wishes
    Helen
  • Teemac
    Teemac Member Posts: 26
    RADIATION
    I JUST STARTED RADIATION. THE DR TOLD ME THAT DURING TREATMENTS I NEED TO DRINK PLEANTY OF JUICE OR GATORADE AND EAT LOTS OF PROTEIN. HE ALSO SAID TO STAY AWAY FROM GREEN LEAFEY VEGETABLES.
  • Double Whammy
    Double Whammy Member Posts: 2,832 Member
    Teemac said:

    RADIATION
    I JUST STARTED RADIATION. THE DR TOLD ME THAT DURING TREATMENTS I NEED TO DRINK PLEANTY OF JUICE OR GATORADE AND EAT LOTS OF PROTEIN. HE ALSO SAID TO STAY AWAY FROM GREEN LEAFEY VEGETABLES.

    Unscientific opinion
    Here's my unscientific, unmedical, uneducated, totally personal opinion. I get my advice from people who are educated, academic medical professionals, and I also recognize that they may be wrong, but their opinions are based on a heck of a lot more knowledge and medical problem solving abilities than I have - in addition to knowing my personal health issues.

    Dr. Servan-Schriber's book makes a lot of sense to me. I continue to and plan to read and learn more. Luckily I like to eat everything and anything so it's not like I don't like healthy food. The Vitamin D thing also makes sense to me (mine had been very low prior to diagnosis). We all know about the benefits of eating a primarily plant-based, high fiber, low fat diet for our cardiovascular system and general health. I would like my cardiovascular system and overall general health to be in as good a shape as possible in case I have to fight either this cancer or breast cancer or another cancer again - or some other health crisis. If in addition to being in as good health as I can, I've also achieved the benefit of keeping cancer away, that's fabulous. And if I want a cheesburger and French fries on occasion, I'm going to have one.

    Suzanne
  • HellieC
    HellieC Member Posts: 524 Member

    Unscientific opinion
    Here's my unscientific, unmedical, uneducated, totally personal opinion. I get my advice from people who are educated, academic medical professionals, and I also recognize that they may be wrong, but their opinions are based on a heck of a lot more knowledge and medical problem solving abilities than I have - in addition to knowing my personal health issues.

    Dr. Servan-Schriber's book makes a lot of sense to me. I continue to and plan to read and learn more. Luckily I like to eat everything and anything so it's not like I don't like healthy food. The Vitamin D thing also makes sense to me (mine had been very low prior to diagnosis). We all know about the benefits of eating a primarily plant-based, high fiber, low fat diet for our cardiovascular system and general health. I would like my cardiovascular system and overall general health to be in as good a shape as possible in case I have to fight either this cancer or breast cancer or another cancer again - or some other health crisis. If in addition to being in as good health as I can, I've also achieved the benefit of keeping cancer away, that's fabulous. And if I want a cheesburger and French fries on occasion, I'm going to have one.

    Suzanne

    That's a great approach Suzanne
    Oh Suzanne - I do so agree with your approach!
    It makes sense to eat healthily, think about supplements where appropriate, take exercise, stretch our minds and do everything we can to give our bodies a chance to fight whatever illness comes our way.
    But let's also enjoy life - which might mean the occasional cheeseburger (or, in my case, good old English fish and chips)!
    Life is for living after all!
    Helen
  • jazzy1
    jazzy1 Member Posts: 1,379
    HellieC said:

    That's a great approach Suzanne
    Oh Suzanne - I do so agree with your approach!
    It makes sense to eat healthily, think about supplements where appropriate, take exercise, stretch our minds and do everything we can to give our bodies a chance to fight whatever illness comes our way.
    But let's also enjoy life - which might mean the occasional cheeseburger (or, in my case, good old English fish and chips)!
    Life is for living after all!
    Helen

    I agree Suzanne & Helen
    I'm in tune with the eating as well. Know our bodies are like cars, if we put in water-filled gas, we'll putter down the road and stop. On other hand, if we put in good fuel, we'll run for a much longer time.

    The Anti Cancer book is my bible, as I've read it numerous times. He has many good points and also know he's a 15 yr brain cancer survivor...that should tell us something about his approach.

    Not only should we eat the "plant-like" foods, but watch the "dirty dozen" which have more pesticides (such as apples, lettuce, etc). In this case, go the "organic" route for no pesticides. Watch the meats and dairy products -- loaded with hormones which many of us should avoid with uterine cancer. I've almost entirely off any dairy products, only using Unsweetened Almond Milk or Soy Milk. Then my chicken is grass-fed which isn't laced with hormones.

    On the other side, I'm only human and will eat that occasional piece of lasagna or apple pie, but do it very infrequently. I'm starting to notice my desires for these foods is diminishing over timer ..yeah!

    Happy eating ladies....
    Jan