Cancer - can we fight it?
Cancer Prevention with the Foods you Eat
When someone in your family has stomach cancer or pancreas cancer, you begin to research and ask why? Here are several people’s ideas. From the book, Foods that fight Pain, p. 160, by Neal Barnard, MD written in 1998: "People who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables have lower rates of many types of cancer, including those arising in the esophagus, stomach, pancreas and colon. Stomach cancer is also linked to smoked and salt pickled foods. Cancer of the pancreas has also been studied in international comparisons and is linked with meats, alcohol and coffee. Diets rich in animal products and other fatty foods tend to increase cancer risk, while vegetables and fruits help reduce it. People who consume the most fruits and vegetables have the lowest cancer rates.”
Some things to remember if you are Diabetic. You are at a greater risk for pancreatic cancer and as Dr Oz states you should be watching the color of your poop. If it is brown, it is fine, but if it turns very light in color you should be reporting it to your doctor. Some of the things Dr Barnard states that are helpful to remember if you are diabetic: "1) Insulin is sensitive to fat. So watch out for greasy foods. 2) Complex carbs (rice/potatoes/100% whole grain bread) release their sugars gradually, while sugar, bread, pastas do not. 3) Fiber keeps the absorption of sugar slow and steady." We keep recommending you take 1 T of ground up flax seed every morning, or something with 100% bran in it.
We have also discovered through some of Dr West’s literature that you can improve your blood sugar by making sure you either take a complex B or eating whole grains. “Generous amounts of vegetables, whole grains, and bean dishes, while generally avoiding animal products and bad fats can reverse Diabetes in those taking oral medications. Plant based diets and exercise not only gets blood sugars under control, it dramatically reduces the risk of eye, kidney, and nerve complications.”
Dr Joel Fuhrman gives seminars to doctors and lay people to help people change their lifestyle. From the book Eat to Live, by Joel Fuhrman, MD: “Cancer is a fruit and vegetable deficiency disease. Raw vegetables have the most powerful anti-cancer properties of all foods. Beans, in general, not just soy, have additional anti-cancer benefits against reproductive cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer. Consume high levels of fruits, green vegetables, and beans. Take note though that he says “a vegetarian whose diet is mainly refined grains, cold breakfast cereal, processed health food store products, vegetarian fast foods, white rice, and pasta will be worse off than a person who eats a little chicken or eggs, but consumes large amounts of fruits, vegetables and beans.
Vegetarians often have less heart disease and often have cholesterol levels of 125. By taking cholesterol lowering medications and blood pressure meds, you do not necessarily keep someone from a major heart attack. You are simply suppressing the body from having high cholesterol or high blood pressure, but you are not addressing the origin of the problem, which is often stress or a diet high in sugar or refined carbohydrates. Tell someone that they should cut out all their sugar and white flour products and you will quickly find out what they eat. Most inflamed and arthritic patients simply refuse to cut out all baked goods with white flour and sugar out of their diet, but they very quickly let you know they do not eat extra sugar. They are totally unaware of the high sugar content in their breakfast cereal, toast, bagels, muffins, orange juice, pancakes and waffles. They will not eat unsweetened apple sauce, and they must have a dessert with their meals. I have watched my father order Essenhaus pancakes and slather them with butter and syrup, and then as the syrup soaks in, add additional syrup. This post becomes very personal to me because my father thinks he eats pretty healthy, and most folks his age are not nearly as concerned about eating healthy as they are about just getting those vitamins from pills. If we tell them to eat 6-8 servings of vegetables a day, they prefer a Green Drink or a Vegetable pill to eating the vegetable.
I am very concerned about the soil our plants are grown in. We spray them with pesticides and weed killers and expect a healthy crop. Since the 80’s when we began the “no till” soil, cancer has been on the rise. We have depended upon our farmers to raise good grain crops, but now we are feeding our animals mostly grains from a “no till” soil. We are raising an “inflamed” society. We are taking more and more pain killers to get rid of the self induced pain, due to our fast paced life, and needing to make more money.
I urge you today to consider a diet consisting of the following foods:
Try following this diet for 5-6 days in a row, and then you are allowed one free day a week where you can eat anything you want, while still making sure you have 2-4 oz of protein at each meal, 6-8 servings of vegetables every day, 3 servings of fruit daily, and 3 servings of complex carbs every day. How much you eat depends upon the natural frame of your body. Most adults should be able to eat 1600-2000 calories a day, while eating no more than 400 calories per meal:
Breakfast 400 calories
Mid morning snack 300-400 calories
Lunch 400 calories
Afternoon snack 300-400 calories
Dinner 400 calories
Proteins
*Egg whites with 1–2 whole eggs for flavor (or, if organic, 2–5 whole eggs, including yolks)
*Chicken breast or thigh
*Black beans or Lentils
*Beef (preferably grass-fed)
Pork (rarely)
*Fish
Cottage Cheese
Legumes
*Lentils (also called "dal" or "daal")
Pinto beans (incomplete protein)
Red beans (incomplete protein)
Soybeans
*Fiber: Flax Seed Ground up (1 Tbsp a day) Bran, or Chia seeds
Nuts and Seeds (especially almonds, walnuts)
Vegetables
*Spinach
*Mixed vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, or any other cruciferous vegetables)
*Sauerkraut
*Asparagus
Peas
*Mixed Greens and Southern Greens (Okra, collard greens, kale)
Green beans and cucumbers
Garlic
If you are trying to lose weight, concentrate on getting the * asterisked foods in your diet on a daily basis. Eat as much as you like of the above food items, but keep it simple. Pick three or four meals and repeat them. Almost all restaurants can give you a salad or vegetables in place of french fries, potatoes, or rice.
In your diet you should have moderate amounts of good fats. Nuts come in this category as well. But use: Fish Oil or Krill Oil or Olive oil (limit to 2 tsp per meal)
The foods below should be eaten in moderation, so your blood sugar does not rise too quickly.
Fruits (3 servings a day) between meals, but never with meat
If you juice your own fruits and vegetables, drink these freshly made.
Apples, grapes, grapefruit, lemon, lime, cantaloupe, berries, papaya, sour cherries, watermelon (or any fruit in season in your area)
If walking at least 3 miles a day, you can add 100% whole grains, sweet potatoes, corn, whole wheat pasta to your evening meal.
If using cheese, do not exceed 2 oz per day. Cheese can be sprinkled over vegetables and eggs for more flavor.
Bedtime snack of 4 oz of wine or berries or Rezveratrol
If you have stomach issues, watch out for smoke grilled meats and pickled foods. You may want to make sure that you get an apple every day. Mild apples that work for me are gala or fuji apples.
A NOTE OF CAUTION to all HCg dieters
There is some cause for concern with this currently very popular diet. The HCg diet is not recommended to be taken often. If you have gastrointestinal issues, pancreas high or low blood sugar issues, or liver or gallbladder problems you should be slow to get on this diet more than once a year. You should have done a Liver Detoxification for 15 days before you begin this diet.
The Dr Navarre Urine test links high levels of HCg in the urine to cancer. If you want to see if you have high levels before you begin the HCg diet, you can send for the urine kit. It will cost you around $50 to do the test.
I recently had an acquaintance who had gastrointestinal issues resulting in high blood pressure. This patient recently went on the HCg diet and very successfully lost a lot of weight. However, within a year of the diet, she was diagnosed with pancreatic/liver cancer and died within 3 months of her diagnosis. I checked with a local doctor who has patients on this diet, and he has not had this happen under his watch. But he gives them a Liver Detox before the diet, monitors the color of their poop, and does not recommend the patient go on this diet for more than 43 days out of the year. He also strongly insists that they keep their protein level low and their vegetable intake very high. He says the high protein diets are very hard on the kidney. He also says the two day gorge days of high gain and high loss thereafter is hard on the heart. These are things to take in consideration. We know that the HCg diet is not a diet for everyone. Some do not lose any weight on this diet, while others lose large amounts of weight. The biggest negatives about this diet (in my opinion) is not eating until lunch time, and the large amounts of coffee consumed, and the limited amounts of vegetables and fruits on the diet.
Grocery Food List
Fruit
lemons
melons or cantaloupes
apples
berries
pineapple
grape fruits
cherries
pears
plums
apricot
oranges
peaches
We highly recommend to wash them all properly with Hydrochloric solution 5%.
Extras: Stevia, tea, coffee, salt, pepper, ginger, tumeric, cayenne pepper, and cumin.
Legumes*
Beans and Peas:
- Adzuki beans
- Black beans
- Black-eyed peas
- Broad beans
- Butter beans
- Garbanzos
- Green beans and Italian green beans
- Green peas (English peas)
- Lentils
- Lima beans
- Mung
- Pinto
- Pigeon peas
- Soy beans
- Split peas
- Wax
- White beans (cannellini, greta northern, navy)
Note: All meat, soy meat substitutes, cheeses, beans and eggs are counted as protein - although not all are complete protein. I cannot recommend kidney beans because they are on almost everyone’s sensitivity list. If legumes are eaten with equal amounts of whole grain rice they become a complete protein.
Vegetables
Fresh vegetables are obviously best. Frozen is good. Canned is okay for some foods such as tomatoes.
- Arugula
- Asparagus
- Bok Choy
- Broccoli, brocoli rabe, broccoli sprouts
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage (green or red)
- Capers
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chayote squash
- Chicory
- Chives
- Cilantro
- Collard greens
- Cucumbers
- Endive
- Fennel
- Garlic
- Green beans
- Kale greens
- Leeks
- Lettuce (all varieties, but iceberg is the least desirable)
- Mushrooms (all varieties)
- Mustard Greens
- Okra
- Onions (all varieties)
- Parsley
- Peppers (all varieties)
- Sauerkraut
- Scallions (green onions)
- Sea vegetables( kelp, dulse, nori, kombu, hijiki
- Shallots
- Snow peas
- Spaghetti squash
- Spinach
- Sprouts (bean, alfalfa)
- Swiss chard greens
- Tomatoes
-Turnip greens
- Watercress Chestnuts
- Winter squash
- Yellow squash
- Zucchini squash
* Green beans, Italian beans, and wax are considered veggies, rather than legumes, on this diet.
Some things to remember if you are Diabetic. You are at a greater risk for pancreatic cancer and as Dr Oz states you should be watching the color of your poop. If it is brown, it is fine, but if it turns very light in color you should be reporting it to your doctor. Some of the things Dr Barnard states that are helpful to remember if you are diabetic: "1) Insulin is sensitive to fat. So watch out for greasy foods. 2) Complex carbs (rice/potatoes/100% whole grain bread) release their sugars gradually, while sugar, bread, pastas do not. 3) Fiber keeps the absorption of sugar slow and steady." We keep recommending you take 1 T of ground up flax seed every morning, or something with 100% bran in it.
We have also discovered through some of Dr West’s literature that you can improve your blood sugar by making sure you either take a complex B or eating whole grains. “Generous amounts of vegetables, whole grains, and bean dishes, while generally avoiding animal products and bad fats can reverse Diabetes in those taking oral medications. Plant based diets and exercise not only gets blood sugars under control, it dramatically reduces the risk of eye, kidney, and nerve complications.”
Dr Joel Fuhrman gives seminars to doctors and lay people to help people change their lifestyle. From the book Eat to Live, by Joel Fuhrman, MD: “Cancer is a fruit and vegetable deficiency disease. Raw vegetables have the most powerful anti-cancer properties of all foods. Beans, in general, not just soy, have additional anti-cancer benefits against reproductive cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer. Consume high levels of fruits, green vegetables, and beans. Take note though that he says “a vegetarian whose diet is mainly refined grains, cold breakfast cereal, processed health food store products, vegetarian fast foods, white rice, and pasta will be worse off than a person who eats a little chicken or eggs, but consumes large amounts of fruits, vegetables and beans.
Vegetarians often have less heart disease and often have cholesterol levels of 125. By taking cholesterol lowering medications and blood pressure meds, you do not necessarily keep someone from a major heart attack. You are simply suppressing the body from having high cholesterol or high blood pressure, but you are not addressing the origin of the problem, which is often stress or a diet high in sugar or refined carbohydrates. Tell someone that they should cut out all their sugar and white flour products and you will quickly find out what they eat. Most inflamed and arthritic patients simply refuse to cut out all baked goods with white flour and sugar out of their diet, but they very quickly let you know they do not eat extra sugar. They are totally unaware of the high sugar content in their breakfast cereal, toast, bagels, muffins, orange juice, pancakes and waffles. They will not eat unsweetened apple sauce, and they must have a dessert with their meals. I have watched my father order Essenhaus pancakes and slather them with butter and syrup, and then as the syrup soaks in, add additional syrup. This post becomes very personal to me because my father thinks he eats pretty healthy, and most folks his age are not nearly as concerned about eating healthy as they are about just getting those vitamins from pills. If we tell them to eat 6-8 servings of vegetables a day, they prefer a Green Drink or a Vegetable pill to eating the vegetable.
I am very concerned about the soil our plants are grown in. We spray them with pesticides and weed killers and expect a healthy crop. Since the 80’s when we began the “no till” soil, cancer has been on the rise. We have depended upon our farmers to raise good grain crops, but now we are feeding our animals mostly grains from a “no till” soil. We are raising an “inflamed” society. We are taking more and more pain killers to get rid of the self induced pain, due to our fast paced life, and needing to make more money.
I urge you today to consider a diet consisting of the following foods:
Try following this diet for 5-6 days in a row, and then you are allowed one free day a week where you can eat anything you want, while still making sure you have 2-4 oz of protein at each meal, 6-8 servings of vegetables every day, 3 servings of fruit daily, and 3 servings of complex carbs every day. How much you eat depends upon the natural frame of your body. Most adults should be able to eat 1600-2000 calories a day, while eating no more than 400 calories per meal:
Breakfast 400 calories
Mid morning snack 300-400 calories
Lunch 400 calories
Afternoon snack 300-400 calories
Dinner 400 calories
Proteins
*Egg whites with 1–2 whole eggs for flavor (or, if organic, 2–5 whole eggs, including yolks)
*Chicken breast or thigh
*Black beans or Lentils
*Beef (preferably grass-fed)
Pork (rarely)
*Fish
Cottage Cheese
Legumes
*Lentils (also called "dal" or "daal")
Pinto beans (incomplete protein)
Red beans (incomplete protein)
Soybeans
*Fiber: Flax Seed Ground up (1 Tbsp a day) Bran, or Chia seeds
Nuts and Seeds (especially almonds, walnuts)
Vegetables
*Spinach
*Mixed vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, or any other cruciferous vegetables)
*Sauerkraut
*Asparagus
Peas
*Mixed Greens and Southern Greens (Okra, collard greens, kale)
Green beans and cucumbers
Garlic
If you are trying to lose weight, concentrate on getting the * asterisked foods in your diet on a daily basis. Eat as much as you like of the above food items, but keep it simple. Pick three or four meals and repeat them. Almost all restaurants can give you a salad or vegetables in place of french fries, potatoes, or rice.
In your diet you should have moderate amounts of good fats. Nuts come in this category as well. But use: Fish Oil or Krill Oil or Olive oil (limit to 2 tsp per meal)
The foods below should be eaten in moderation, so your blood sugar does not rise too quickly.
Fruits (3 servings a day) between meals, but never with meat
If you juice your own fruits and vegetables, drink these freshly made.
Apples, grapes, grapefruit, lemon, lime, cantaloupe, berries, papaya, sour cherries, watermelon (or any fruit in season in your area)
If walking at least 3 miles a day, you can add 100% whole grains, sweet potatoes, corn, whole wheat pasta to your evening meal.
If using cheese, do not exceed 2 oz per day. Cheese can be sprinkled over vegetables and eggs for more flavor.
Bedtime snack of 4 oz of wine or berries or Rezveratrol
If you have stomach issues, watch out for smoke grilled meats and pickled foods. You may want to make sure that you get an apple every day. Mild apples that work for me are gala or fuji apples.
A NOTE OF CAUTION to all HCg dieters
There is some cause for concern with this currently very popular diet. The HCg diet is not recommended to be taken often. If you have gastrointestinal issues, pancreas high or low blood sugar issues, or liver or gallbladder problems you should be slow to get on this diet more than once a year. You should have done a Liver Detoxification for 15 days before you begin this diet.
The Dr Navarre Urine test links high levels of HCg in the urine to cancer. If you want to see if you have high levels before you begin the HCg diet, you can send for the urine kit. It will cost you around $50 to do the test.
I recently had an acquaintance who had gastrointestinal issues resulting in high blood pressure. This patient recently went on the HCg diet and very successfully lost a lot of weight. However, within a year of the diet, she was diagnosed with pancreatic/liver cancer and died within 3 months of her diagnosis. I checked with a local doctor who has patients on this diet, and he has not had this happen under his watch. But he gives them a Liver Detox before the diet, monitors the color of their poop, and does not recommend the patient go on this diet for more than 43 days out of the year. He also strongly insists that they keep their protein level low and their vegetable intake very high. He says the high protein diets are very hard on the kidney. He also says the two day gorge days of high gain and high loss thereafter is hard on the heart. These are things to take in consideration. We know that the HCg diet is not a diet for everyone. Some do not lose any weight on this diet, while others lose large amounts of weight. The biggest negatives about this diet (in my opinion) is not eating until lunch time, and the large amounts of coffee consumed, and the limited amounts of vegetables and fruits on the diet.
Grocery Food List
Fruit
lemons
melons or cantaloupes
apples
berries
pineapple
grape fruits
cherries
pears
plums
apricot
oranges
peaches
We highly recommend to wash them all properly with Hydrochloric solution 5%.
Extras: Stevia, tea, coffee, salt, pepper, ginger, tumeric, cayenne pepper, and cumin.
Legumes*
Beans and Peas:
- Adzuki beans
- Black beans
- Black-eyed peas
- Broad beans
- Butter beans
- Garbanzos
- Green beans and Italian green beans
- Green peas (English peas)
- Lentils
- Lima beans
- Mung
- Pinto
- Pigeon peas
- Soy beans
- Split peas
- Wax
- White beans (cannellini, greta northern, navy)
Note: All meat, soy meat substitutes, cheeses, beans and eggs are counted as protein - although not all are complete protein. I cannot recommend kidney beans because they are on almost everyone’s sensitivity list. If legumes are eaten with equal amounts of whole grain rice they become a complete protein.
Vegetables
Fresh vegetables are obviously best. Frozen is good. Canned is okay for some foods such as tomatoes.
- Arugula
- Asparagus
- Bok Choy
- Broccoli, brocoli rabe, broccoli sprouts
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage (green or red)
- Capers
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chayote squash
- Chicory
- Chives
- Cilantro
- Collard greens
- Cucumbers
- Endive
- Fennel
- Garlic
- Green beans
- Kale greens
- Leeks
- Lettuce (all varieties, but iceberg is the least desirable)
- Mushrooms (all varieties)
- Mustard Greens
- Okra
- Onions (all varieties)
- Parsley
- Peppers (all varieties)
- Sauerkraut
- Scallions (green onions)
- Sea vegetables( kelp, dulse, nori, kombu, hijiki
- Shallots
- Snow peas
- Spaghetti squash
- Spinach
- Sprouts (bean, alfalfa)
- Swiss chard greens
- Tomatoes
-Turnip greens
- Watercress Chestnuts
- Winter squash
- Yellow squash
- Zucchini squash
* Green beans, Italian beans, and wax are considered veggies, rather than legumes, on this diet.
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