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we must pay close attention to the mind-body connection, especially the negative impact of prolonged feelings of helplessness and despair. When left unattended, these feelings—not the stresses of life themselves—contribute to the inflammatory processes that can help cancer grow.
at least 40 percent of cancers can be prevented by simple changes in nutrition and physical activity (not to mention environmental factors).1
all of us have the ability to protect ourselves from cancer and to contribute by our own means to healing it.
how patients can contribute to their own care by supplementing conventional medical treatment.”
Cancer lies dormant in all of us. Like all living organisms, our bodies are making defective cells all the time. That’s how tumors are born. But our bodies are also equipped with a number of mechanisms that detect and keep such cells in check.
If we all have a potential cancer lying dormant in us, each of us also has a body designed to fight the process of tumor development. It is up to each of us to use our body’s natural defenses. Other cultures do this much better than ours.
These four approaches consist of: (1) guarding ourselves against the imbalances of our environment that have developed since 1940 and promote the current epidemic of cancer, (2) adjusting our diet so as to cut back on cancer promoters and include the greatest number of phytochemical components that actively fight tumors, (3) understanding and healing the psychological wounds that feed the biological mechanisms at work in cancer, and (4) creating a relationship with our bodies that stimulates the immune system and reduces the inflammation that makes tumors grow.
If there was one lesson to be learned from that, it was that there is no fixed rule in nature that applies in like manner to everything.
Statistics are information, not condemnation. The objective, when you have cancer and want to combat fatality, is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the curve.
If patients are better informed about their disease, if they look after body and mind, and if they are given what they need to improve their health, then they can mobilize the body’s vital functions to fight cancer.
vegetarian diet with supplements (the antioxidants vitamins E and C and selenium, and a gram of omega-3 fatty acids a day), physical exercise (thirty minutes of walking, six days a week), practice in stress management (yoga movements, breathing exercises, mental imagery, or progressive relaxation), and one hour of weekly participation in a support group with other patients in the same program.
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It stimulated genes that had a preventive effect against cancer and inhibited those that favored the development of the disease.
I have bad genes, what can I do? Turns out you can do a lot more than you thought.”
The more fruits and vegetables these genetically at-risk women ate, the lower their risk of developing cancer. Women who consumed up to twenty-seven different fruits and vegetables a week (and variety does seem to be important here) saw their risk diminished by fully 73 percent.6
They have found harmony in this simple quartet: detoxification of carcinogenic substances, an anticancer diet, adequate physical activity, and a search for emotional peace.
Chinese, the notion of “crisis” is written as a combination of the two characters “danger” and “opportunity.”
Until we have brushed up against mortality, life seems boundless and we’d prefer to keep it that way.
By exposing life’s brevity, a diagnosis of cancer can restore life’s true flavor.
Now I am either unaware of such matters, or they seem irrelevant. . . .
give thanks because I was transformed, because I am a much happier man since that second birth.
He probably thought of Schopenhauer’s saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.
If we can control the enemy by attacking its supply lines, then we can conceive of long-term treatments undermining the tumor’s attempts to create new vessel growth.
The lesson is simple: When we respect the needs and bodies of the animals that feed us, our own bodies are better balanced.
The softer plastic used for most mineral and spring water brands is normally made of recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and does not contain BPA (look for the number “1” on the bottom of the bottle that indicates the bottle is made of PET).
“It is generally recognized that environmental exposure is responsible for the majority of cancers.”
Upton Sinclair: “It’s difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“We can’t live healthy on a sick planet.”
“O my body, my being, my life force, speak to me! Help me sense what’s happening to you. Help me understand why you couldn’t cope. Tell me what you need. Tell me what nourishes you, strengthens and protects you. Tell me how we are going to make our way together, because alone, with my head, I haven’t succeeded, and I don’t know what to do anymore.”
cabbage, broccoli, garlic, soy, green tea, turmeric, raspberries, blueberries, and dark chocolate.
“Our study suggests that soy phytochemicals plus green tea may be used as a potentially effective dietary regimen for inhibiting progression of estrogen dependent breast cancer.”
In fact, when it is not mixed with pepper or ginger—as it always has been in curry—turmeric does not pass the intestinal barrier. Pepper increases the body’s absorption of turmeric by 2,000 percent.
Turmeric can also be eaten with soy products that replace animal proteins and provide the genistein mentioned above, which detoxifies and helps check angiogenesis. Add a cup of green tea and imagine the powerful cocktail that, with no side effects, keeps in check three of the principal mechanisms of cancer growth.
shiitake, maitake, kawaratake, and enokitake mushrooms
Ellagic acid is a polyphenol found in large quantities in raspberries and strawberries (it is also found in hazelnuts and walnuts).
cranberries, cinnamon, and dark chocolate.
plum contains as many antioxidants as a handful of berries and costs far less. In laboratory tests, stone fruits have also demonstrated their efficacy against breast cancer cells and cholesterol.
“Real” foods are thus more effective than supplements, and they are more effective in combination than when eaten separately.
effect of a diet that combines all variables—green tea, a lower glycemic index, reduction of omega-6 oils and increased consumption of omega-3s, turmeric, herbs, consumption of broccoli three times a week, olive oil, garlic/onions/leeks, berries, stone fruit, etc.
In the case of tomatoes, they actually need to be cooked in oil in order to release their precious anticancer phytochemicals,
Grilling, sautéing, or freezing fish or other seafood actually destroys about 30 percent of its omega-3s. The
The mixture contained brussels sprouts, broccoli, garlic, scallions, turmeric, black pepper, cranberries, grapefruit, and even a bit of green tea.
Every day, at every meal, we can choose food that will defend our bodies against the invasion of cancer by
The anticancer diet is principally composed of vegetables (and legumes) accompanied by olive (or canola or flaxseed) oil or organic butter, garlic, herbs, and spices. Meat and eggs are optional.
Green tea must be steeped for at least five to eight minutes—ideally ten minutes—to release its catechins.
Recommendations for use: Mix 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder with 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and a generous pinch of black pepper. Add to vegetables, soups, and salad dressings. A few drops of agave nectar can remove the slightly bitter taste.
Cabbages (brussels sprouts, bok choy, Chinese cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.) contain
Chopped garlic and onions can be gently fried in a little olive oil, mixed with steamed or stir-fried vegetables, and combined with curry or turmeric. They can also be consumed raw, mixed in salads, or eaten in a sandwich of multigrain bread and organic butter (or olive oil).
Carrots, yams, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkins, certain varieties of potimarron squash (also known as Hokkaido squash), tomatoes, persimmons, apricots, beets, and all the bright-colored (orange, red, yellow, green) fruits and vegetables contain vitamin A and lycopene,
Tomatoes must be cooked in order to release these nutrients.
