Recent Discoveries for Simple Cancer Nutrition with Cancer Treatment

What does medical research say about simple cancer nutrition with treatment? The guidelines for eating to prevent cancer are now expanding to also include nutrition to help treat cancer.

• Research is only just beginning to show us exactly how food can TREAT cancer as well as prevent it.

• Scientists are already able to pinpoint exactly how certain foods have anti-tumor effects - for all cancers – as well as for cancers as specific as HER2-driven breast cancer disease.

HERE'S WHAT TO DO and NOT TO DO based on recent health discoveries for simple cancer nutrition:

1) GET SUNSHINE or take Vitamin D

"There is no better anti-cancer agent than activated vitamin D. It does everything you'd want," explains Dr. J. Cannell of the Vitamin D Council.

Why? In the body, vitamin D is converted into a steroid hormone, and genes responding to it play a crucial role in fixing damaged cells and maintaining good cell health.

Those studying the vitamin say that the ”hide-from-sunlight” advice has amounted to the health equivalent of a foolish poker trade.

Anyone practicing sun avoidance has traded the benefit of a reduced risk of SKIN CANCER — which is easy to detect and treat and seldom fatal — for an increased risk of the scary, high-body-count cancers, such as BREAST, PROSTATE AND COLON, that appear linked to vitamin D shortages. "Fifteen hundred Americans die every year from skin cancers. Fifteen hundred Americans DIE EVERY DAY FROM THE SERIOUS CANCERS."

The sun advice has been misguided information "of just breathtaking proportions," says John Cannell, head of the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit, California-based organization.

A recent vitamin D study amazed even the researchers, who found that taking vitamin D supplements and calcium substantially reduced all cancer risk – by 77%.

The four-year study, conducted by researchers at Creighton University in Nebraska, initially enrolled 1,180 women who were over the age of 55 and living in a nine-county rural area of the state.

• NEW RECOMMENDATIONS: Reinhold Vieth, professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and one of the world's top vitamin D experts says that rather than pollutants, the critical factor for cancer "is more likely a lack of vitamin D."

He recommends taking AT LEAST 1000 IU of vitamin D in the winter and for anyone not getting into the sun. Many are now recommending 5000 IU of vitamin D per day and are doubling that for a therapeutic dosage.

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2) Add These for Simple Cancer Nutrition:

HERE IS THE RESEARCH CONSENSUS FOR BASIC SIMPLE CANCER NUTRITION:

Intake of flax seed, especially its lignan fraction, and abundant portions of fruits and vegetables will lower cancer risk.

Foods found to exert an anti-carcinogenic effect at realistic doses are:

a) omega 3 fats and extra virgin olive oil, b) cruciferous or brassica vegetables, c) tea d) berries

OMEGA-3 FATS inhibit cancers and most people do not eat enough:

• An Australian study done ten years ago showed a 40% reduction in melanoma for those who were eating fish.

• Studies (epidemiological, experimental, and mechanistic data) implicate omega-6 fat as STIMULATORS OF CANCERS, and long-chain omega-3 fats as INHIBITORS OF DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF A RANGE OF HUMAN CANCERS, including melanoma. (Cancer Res 2000 Aug 1;60(15):4139-45)

BEST SOURCES OF OMEGA 3 are: ground FLAX SEEDS, walnuts, salmon, mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, and albacore tuna.

EAT LESS or NONE Omega-6 because in the USA people eat 10 times too much Omega-6 for proper balancing with Omega-3’s. There is Omega 6, in: corn oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil:

• More About Omega Oils for Best Health

• Balancing Omega-3 anti-inflammatory, Omega-6 pro-inflammatory as simple cancer nutrition *

WHY USE EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL INSTEAD:

Spanish researchers identified 30 phenolic compounds with ANTI-BREAST CANCER ACTIVITIES in olive oil, thus showing how selected nutrients from an olive oil-rich "Mediterranean diet" directly regulates HER2-driven breast cancer disease. (BMC Cancer. 2007 May 9;7:80)

b) EAT BROCCOLI, CABBAGE and Broccoli SPROUTS: Cruciferous or brassica vegetables have a demonstrated anti tumor effect. The most potent of these are BROCCOLI SPROUTS.

The basic rule for simple cancer nutrition is to eat lots of vegetables, especially cabbage, onions, and broccoli, with olive oil and green tea on a nice warm patio in the sun. c) TEA and GREEN TEA contain compounds that inhibit cancer.

d) BERRIES are very promising, and scientists are developing supplements with proper doses of their active ingredients.

e) SEA VEGETABLES have been studied intensely for their anti cancer activities, especially kelp.

There are many studies showing FUCOIDANS contained in brown seaweeds to inhibit anti tumors, prevent tumors from spreading and inhibit metastasis.

• Medical Research for Best Nutrition With Cancer Treatment

• Study finds a SEA VEGETABLE that REDUCES a Hormone Related To Breast Cancer Risk

• Sea Vegetable Recipes with Wild Pacific Kelp

3) Get Recommendations for Liver Cancer and Nutrition

With liver cancer, or cancer that has spread to the liver, it is important to eat foods that are easy on the liver for a month or so.

Ask us for nutritional recommendations for Liver Cancer:

• See also: Nutrition for Liver Cancer

4) Get Proven Anti Tumor Supplements

With life-threatening cancer, or for with those who have difficulties digesting, have nausea, or are undergoing chemo or radiation – as well as for patients experiencing muscle wasting, and low blood counts, it is best to also add:

• NUTRACEUTICALS, or foods that have been clinically shown to be effective, can be safely used with cancer and cancer wasting to speed recovery and inhibit metastasis.

These are nutritional supplements that have a patent for the prevention and treatment of cancer that can be safely and easily added to the diet.

• A special CYSTEINE-RICH PROTEIN has been clinically shown to inhibit tumors and help restore health and also prevent muscle wasting and weight loss in cancer patients.

More About Anti Tumor Nutraceuticals:

6) DO’S AND DON’Ts of Simple Cancer Nutrition

This may be the hardest for some: GIVE YOUR BODY A BREAK and eliminate all JUNK food and white sugar, flour, pastries, cookies, soda, diet soda, processed meats etc. except for the occasional treat that “makes your heart sing,” stick to the basics of simple cancer nutrition.

• SIMPLE CANCER NUTRITION means going “back to the basics” with salads, stir fried veggies, (not French fries) omelettes, fish, turkey and chicken, fruits, nuts, berries, whole grains only, e.g. brown rice, -- add some dark chocolate , but forget the alcohol.

• Along with simple cancer nutrition, GET A NEW LEASE ON LIFE by doing something totally different, whether it be going for walks, taking a yoga class, doing a scrap book, calling a forgotten friend, writing a journal, doing something frivolous just for you or taking a holiday. Set new priorities and just BE!

And find out how to BE HAPPY NOW!

Simple Cancer Nutrition and Supplements with Cancer Treatment

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