Tag Archives: diet and nutrition

Overweight Prostate Cancer Sufferers More Likely to Die of the Disease

June 14, 2009 – 2:54 am

If one is obese, one has a much higher probability of contracting a host of various degenerative diseases, as well as to live a much shorter life.
Logically speaking, with a weaker body and a compromised immune system, an overweight person would also be less able to fend off and recover from various health conditions. [...]

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Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Cancer Risk - Many Are Not Informed

June 3, 2009 – 10:12 am

A good diet can help to prevent cancer, and even help you to overcome the disease, right? Bad foods cause cancer, right? Bad lifestyle habits like alcohol drinking, lack of exercise and being overweight increase cancer risk, right?
These sound like common and commonsensical knowledge, which you would think the majority of people would be aware [...]

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Vegetables and Fruits May Help Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence

June 3, 2009 – 9:59 am

Fruits and vegetables are an absolutely critical part of any health-promoting diet, and even more so when it comes to cancer prevention or anti-cancer dietary protocols.
They are high in vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, antioxidants, enzymes and other nutrients, contain lots of fiber which helps to keep the intestines and colon clean, as well as contain countless [...]

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Woman Beats Breast Cancer Using Healing Diet and Plan from Solomon Wickey

April 17, 2009 – 6:23 am

Many people diagnosed with cancer have walked away from conventional cancer treatment, sought out “alternatives” and gotten well. This is a story of a lady from Indiana who got breast cancer, found an alternative protocol, followed it, and got well.
The protocol she followed was largely dietary and herbal in nature. But it also entailed other [...]

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Eating Saturated Fats Could Be Linked to Higher Small Intestine Cancer Risk

April 17, 2009 – 4:26 am

Modern day diets are high in saturated fats from commercially produced meats, processed animal food products like dairy products, etc. And these are having a detrimental effect on our health.
The study highlighted here discussed a possible link between small intestine cancer and saturated fats.

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Small Intestine Cancer Risk Lowered By Eating More Fiber and Whole Grains

April 17, 2009 – 3:57 am

When we eat more fiber, we visit the toilet more regularly. That, intuitively, means a cleaner colon and a lower risk of large intestine disorders and colorectal cancer. Natural healers, however, have always asserted that a lack of regular elimination can cause many illnesses and ailments, including ones which are in another part of the [...]

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Cancer and Sugar - Studies Which Show The Link

April 17, 2009 – 2:19 am

One of the most important things a cancer suffererer needs to do is to avoid refined sugar in his or her diet. I’m talking candy bars, cakes, sugary beverages, and the like. Cancer cells love these sugars. It amazes me that, in hospitals, they actually serve items with refined sugar to cancer patients. Don’t they [...]

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Vitamin B17 and Pancreatic Enzymes in Preventing and Treating Cancer - A Video Documentary on the Story of Vitamin B17

March 30, 2009 – 6:28 pm

Have you heard of the trophoblast theory of cancer? It basically states that cancer is a deficiency disease, much like scurvy is a deficiency of vitamin C. Under this theory, it is stated that nature has provided two main mechanisms for protection against cancer - the pancreatic enzyme trypsin, as well as the natural compound [...]

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Choosing An Alternative Cancer Treatment - How A Breast Cancer Sufferer Made Her Decision

March 30, 2009 – 11:35 am

When one is diagnosed with the much-dreaded disease called “cancer”, the shock and fear which grips the person can literally be crippling. As the dust settles, after asking the “how’s” and the “why me’s”, is a very important question - “what next?”
This question can be tough even for people who are well-versed in natural and [...]

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Budwig Protocol - Key Points and How It Works

March 30, 2009 – 10:40 am

Today, thousands of people worldwide are using Dr Johanna Budwig’s protocol to overcome cancer and other serious diseases. I personally know of these people, and converse with them. Their oncologists are shocked at their progress and recovery, but that’s nothing surprising - oncologists and medical doctors mostly know very little about cancer healing.
This article by [...]

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Simple Lifestyle and Dietary Changes Stopped Aggressive Prostate Cancer; 36% Did Not Need Further Treatment

March 30, 2009 – 3:08 am

A study conducted at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridgeshire found that, for almost 40% of aggressive prostate cancer sufferers, surgery and radiotherapy treatments which were planned were not needed after the men made simple changes to their lifestyle and dietary habits.
Not only did the changes slow the growth of the cancers, they even stopped it altogether [...]

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Overeating Linked to Cancer

March 17, 2009 – 1:59 pm

Since time memorial, fasting has been advocated as a means of cleansing - both physically as well as spiritually.
Even today, many “alternative” and natural cancer treatment protocols encourage some form of fasting for the purpose of cleansing and detoxification, as well as for “starving” cancer cells. With obesity a major risk factor for cancer, it [...]

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Acai Berries May Destroy Cancer Cells

March 17, 2009 – 1:37 pm

There are literally thousands of natural cancer fighters and killers residing in fruits and vegetables given to us by Mother Nature. This is knowledge traditionally known to many cultures worldwide, for literally thousands of years.
Increasingly, modern science is empirically proving these health benefits, too. One fruit which is getting more and more attention is the [...]

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Omega 6 Fatty Acids - High Intake Linked to Breast Cancer

March 17, 2009 – 1:28 pm

An gross imbalance of omega 3 fatty acids and omega 6 fatty acids - we are getting way too little of the former and way too much of the latter - is a major cause of not just cancer, but a host of other degenerative health conditions as well.
Here, this article highlights excessive omega 6 [...]

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Cancer Fund Raising and Donations - An Event Severely Lacking in Common Sense

March 17, 2009 – 12:22 pm

There is so much about conventional cancer treatment which is instinctively, intuitively and intellectually wrong.
Poisons and chemicals cause cancer. Radiation causes cancer. Stress causes cancer. Yet, conventional medicine’s diagnostic and treatment protocols are full of poisons, chemicals, radiation and stress; they cause cancer! This article highlights to us that even cancer fund-raising activities severely lack [...]

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Lung Cancer Risk May Be Increased By Inorganic Phosphates in Processed Foods

January 14, 2009 – 6:01 am

Lung cancer is most heavily linked with smoking, and, increasingly, also to air pollution, which is a worsening problem in most developed cities.
Yet, just like how food, diet and nutrition play a part in the development of skin cancer (and not just sunburn) and other cancers, so it is the case for lung cancer. And [...]

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Colonoscopies Do NOT Prevent Colon Cancer

January 14, 2009 – 5:19 am

I have been seeing some stories lately about how colonoscopy is only effective for detecting cancer in the left side of the colon (i.e. the descending colon), and not the right side of it (i.e. the ascending colon).
What really alarms me is how I have seen several headlines which go ‘colonoscopies only prevents X% of [...]

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Breast Cancer Risk Found To Be Lower For Those Who Eat Native Mexican Diet

January 13, 2009 – 4:32 pm

A study, called the Four-Corners Breast Cancer Study, was carried out to ascertain how specific dietary choices affected breast cancer risk. Women from 4 states in the United States – Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah – were involved in the study.
The dietary habits of breast cancer sufferers were compared with those of randomly selected [...]

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Eating Beans and Potatoes May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

January 12, 2009 – 10:09 am

A pre-clinical study conducted by researchers from the Colorado State University has suggested that eating potatoes and beans regularly could help lower the risk of getting breast cancer.
The study will later move on into a clinical trial involving breast cancer survivors.

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An Example of A Natural Cancer Treatment Protocol

January 11, 2009 – 3:44 pm

If you are familiar with natural cancer protocols, or so-called “alternative” cancer treatments, you would have some overall idea of what it entails - nutrition, detoxing, boosting immunity, etc.
But what would a specific natural cancer healing protocol entail? The following article details some of the main elements of such a method.

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Natural Substance Noscapine Found Effective Against Advanced Prostate Cancer

December 30, 2008 – 3:34 am

Have you heard of noscapine? I have not.
It is said to be a naturally-occurring substance, a non-addictive derivative of opium, which had been successfully and safely used as a cough suppressant for more than half a century. And recent research carried out on mice has found the natural substance to be effective against advanced [...]

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Cancer Drugs Used To Shrink Tumors In Fact Promote Their Growth

December 29, 2008 – 2:27 am

In conventional cancer treatment, the focus is almost totally on the tumor - killing it via burning (radiation) or poisoning (chemotherapy), or removing it using surgery. Cancer drugs are also used to attempt to shrink tumors. Little, if anything, is usually done to improve the nutritional status, overall health, immunity and outlook of the person.
This [...]

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More Physical Activity Means Less Cancer Risk

December 28, 2008 – 9:02 pm

Yet another study has linked the level of physical activity in one’s life with one’s risk of getting cancer. Not unexpectedly, there is an inverse correlation. And this piece of research is said to be the first conducted on a non-Western population.
The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and was carried out [...]

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Two Studies Showing Cruciferous Vegetables Lower Risk of Bladder Cancer

December 28, 2008 – 2:04 pm

Cruciferous vegetables, particularly when eaten raw, are well-known for their antioxidant properties as well as anti-cancer effects.
Recent research at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute has linked the consumption of raw cruciferous vegetables to lowered risk of getting bladder cancer.

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Diet, Stress and Cancer Risk

December 28, 2008 – 11:00 am

Intuitively as well as scientifically, we have a feel of how stress and diet both play large roles in cancer development. A study published in August 2008 in the International Journal of Oncology has given us some clues of how these two factors may interact to affect cancer risk.
The article below summarizes this study. A [...]

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Possible Way In Which Meat Increases Cancer Risk

December 26, 2008 – 5:11 pm

Numerous studies have already linked the consumption of meat, in particular red meat and processed meats, to increased cancer risk. Now, recent research has given us a possible idea of how red meat could have this undesirable effect.
In gist, it has something to do with chronic inflammation - a study has found that eating such [...]

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Consumption of Fish May Improve Prostate Cancer Survival

November 28, 2008 – 9:59 pm

A study jointly conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as well as Columbia University in New York found that consumption of fish may improve prostate cancer survival.
Earlier epidemiological studies are not conclusive on whether eating fish and seafood n-3 fatty acids may prevent or slow [...]

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