Does the way we eat raise the chance of getting cancer?

Iris,

I agree that nutrition is critical. When I was spending my days researching for Mark, nutrition just kept popping it’s head up everywhere I looked. It was difficult to deny that it was a key player, although I believe there are many keys. We spent an enormous amount of money working with a well known naturopath who gave us a diet, that didn’t make much sense to me, but as I started to research it made perfect sense. Our family eats this way today and I’ve posted that diet a couple of times on the discussion boards. If you can’t find it just e-mail me.

Basically eat the way it was created, as much as possible. It was easy for me to make this change as I did all the research, but it was another thing for Mark. Eating was painful for him and he didn’t often feel hungry, but when he did – brown rice and fresh veggies didn’t have a lot of appeal.

One of the books I like the best was called “Nourishing Traditions” now that said, they call it the bible of good nutrition and it’s about as big as the bible, but it is absolutely filled with research on nutrition and for me, I want to read the research. It is also filled with recipes that are based on the research. I think that accounts for it’s size.

Eat well!

Stac

Hi Iris… Thanks for your post about diet. Your absolutley correct in my opinion. I feel high protien, high fiber, high calorie count, high potassium, ect. helps tremendously. I’ve had mets to both lungs for over six years and still chopping wood. I feel longevity can be lost if you don’t take that extra step to keep your body pumped up with the good stuff. Oh, I go astray from time to time with my diet but most of the time Eat what is needed. I also feel a couple drawbacks to maintaing the weight and body strength is not exercising and not taking anti nausea medicines when needed. Personally the more I feel nausea the more I eat and you have to keep telling yourself eat and drink and don’t lay around. You have to interact and socialize with people to keep your mind healthy as well. Iris , I’m so happy to see Peter taking a strong positive approach. It really does work. Although we know many variables come in to play for each individual; Like aggressiveness of cancer, Individual response to different trearments, and how soon it is diagnosed, doing all the above is certainly helpful in keeping the bunny battery energized. Thanks for the reminder.
God Bless,
Jeff G.