Eating for Recovery - What I've learned

The Gawler Foundation and the books recommended in this blog should provide you with sufficient evidence that 'food is medicine'.  If only I had come to that conclusion earlier! 

Its really simple .... Cancer is multi-dimentional and no-one really knows why one person gets it and another doesn't.  In my case, I was healthy, exercised, never smoked and ate good foods.  However, in addition to genetic predisposition and various other elements ie smoking, asbestos etc, cancer has been found to be aggravated and stimulated by inflammation and stress.  Our western diet is highly inflammatory caused by foods such as meats, fats, refined sugar and chemical additives.

To give you an example, I had three PET scans where radio-active glucose was injected intravenously.  It took approximately 60 minutes for the 'radiotracer' to travel through the body and to be absorbed by the cancer tissue being studied.  The tumour loves the glucose/sugar and feeds on it.

The basic principles are:

• Rethink your lifestyle and base your diet on vegetables, grains and fruit
• Where possible use chemical free produce.  Plants produce phyto-chemicals which are like 'natural pesticides' that stop plants from being eaten by insects. When plants are sprayed with pesticides - you will absorb those chemicals.
• Steam, dry bake, wok saute but don't deep fry.  In human history frying food is a relatively new way of preparing food. The heat of frying changes the chemistry of the fat molecules in the food. Our bodies are not adapted to take care of these fat molecules altered by frying and on a biochemical level the altered fat molecules interfere in a negative way with the functioning of the cells. 
• Keep your body Alkaline and remove all acid forming food such as meat, soft drinks, salt, sugar, jams, pastries, white breads .... refined, sweetened and processed foods!

Anti Cancer Foods:

• Cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts
• Turmeric/Curcumin
• Pomegranate
• Broccoli
• Spinach
• Vegetables juices at least 3 times a day (as per the Gawler Diet)