A correct diet should include organic fruits and vegetables and possibly some meat and fish. Some animal proteins were found to promote cancer growth, as it is the case of casein, a milk protein. Animal protein is hard to digest and contribute to a more acidic state of your body. You can easily and cheaply test your saliva pH by buying pH strips and test your saliva at wake-up time.
A correct diet should also contain both cooked food and raw food. Raw food, like fruits, vegetables, sprouts and nuts, contain enzymes that help digestion and have other healthy functions within the body, while some cooked food pushes pancreas into producing enzymes for digestion, which besides sugar control (by releasing insulin), represents another burden for this important organ. That's why it is important to reduce the consumption of high glycemic carbohydrates. Total abolition of cooked food may be wrong, because some foods can only be absorbed if cooked.
A better diet is also more based on protein (preferably from vegetable source) and healthy oils like omega-3 and omega-6, and less in carbohydrates, although all of them are required for the correct functioning of the body. A good source of omega-3 oils are flaxseed oil and krill oil, they are both better than fish oil. For maximum intake and absorption of flaxseed oil, search for the Budwig Protocol in the internet and how to prepare the quark cheese + flaxseed oil mix. One should also base his/her diet on food preparation and less on processed foods - foods that are packed and are on shelves of your local supermarket - because this type of food is usually prepared at high temperatures, may include several unhealthy ingredients and it is not fresh, being there sometimes for several months prior to consumption.
Any diet should be personalized, that is created by you. Only you can determine what food allergies or intolerances you have, you have to use an elimination diet without the most common offenders - dairy, cereals, pasta, bread, gluten, coffee, chocolate, citrus fruits - and then test reintroduce a suspicious food one each day. Be also very suspicious of foods that you consume every day, they may be the culprit of digestive related problems - foods like coffee, breakfast cereals, too much of a certain fruit, etc.
One should drink highly mineralized non-chlorinated water. There are no easy choices here; tap water, even filtered, may still contain heavy metals, chemicals and bacteria. Reverse osmosis filters remove most of the minerals from the water they filter. Water ionizers artificially create higher pH water, but use filtered tap water, so the problems with tap water remain. Bottled spring or mineral water has the problem of the plastic bottles where water is contained - plastics contain chemicals that have many health issues, plus the bottles are washed with strong detergents like caustic soda. The best would be drinking water from a spring, however this is not an option for most people including me. I opted to drink bottled water from a spring whose water is highly mineralized and with a naturally higher pH.
Stress control is very important, especially avoiding chronic stress, that will deplete your body of important ingredients, it will lower your immunity, making you more vulnerable to several diseases, including cancer, and may make you feel miserable. How do you control it? First by acknowledging its existence in first place, then actively and consciously counteracting it. Avoid working too many hours, make a pause regularly, pick up the phone standing up, and move regularly out of your seat (if you work in an office like me). The rest of stress control should be based on regular moderate exercise, like walking, swimming or cycling, yoga, dancing, listening to relaxing music, sleeping an adequate number of hours every day, etc. Don't rely on prescription pills to control your stress, it is an artificial and wrong way to do it. If you need an extra help, you may take supplements like 5-HTP, lemon balm, L-theanine or melatonin (the sleeping hormone).
Daily time outdoors with sunshine exposure, with some care during summertime, especially during noon hours, is very important for one to get an adequate amount of the important vitamin D in a natural way, plus the health benefits of sun rays with its large spectrum of various radiations. Being outside of a building, breathing air that has not circulated through air conducts, and receiving the sun rays are the way our bodies were built and developed through milennia. When I refer to sunshine exposure, I mean direct sunlight, with no sunglasses or sun protection cream. You just have to be careful to not overdo it; about half an hour to an hour per day is alright.
About environmental and chemical hazards avoidance, you have to think that everything that you eat, breathe or put over your body will get into your bloodstream and will affect your health, either in a positive or negative way. Be extremely careful with every cosmetic product you buy - most of them are full of potentially carcinogenic products - I am referring to soaps, colognes, hair shampoo, toothpastes, anti-prespirants and deodorants, skin creams of any type, etc. Anything that you put on your skin will be absorbed into your body, eventually going into the bloodstream, and reaching any part of your body. Check this website for evaluating any cosmetic product you may use: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/.
Preferring organic food to mainstream commercial food, is avoiding consuming pesticides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, genetically modified foods, food additives, most of them having the capability of creating inflammation and promoting cancer.
What about supplements? I am in favor of taking them, in fact I take a lot of them. Most today’s foods don't have the health properties of the past, even organic foods. Most soils are depleted of minerals, climate alterations, especially due to man intervention, may have a strong toll on food quality. Taking supplements is compensating for the present less nutritional food you get, and providing an extra health protection. It is important to locate a good supplement supplier, a certified one. In
I take vitamins - E, D3, C, K complex, B (B6, B12 and Folic Acid); minerals - calcium, magnesium and potassium; antioxidants - green tea, ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid), berry complex (blueberries, red berries, cranberries, etc.); anti-inflammation supplements such as MSM or boswella; detoxifying supplements such as milk thistle and artichoke; anti-cancer supplements such as curcumin, IP6, I3C + DIM, selenium, and a blend of the amino acids l-proline + l-lysine; immune enhancing supplements like beta-glucan or the chinese mushrooms reishi and maitake; metabolism enhancing supplements such as sea-iodine, CoenzymeQ10 (in ubiquinol form) or rhodiola; anti-aging supplements like resveratrol and PQQ, etc.
Supplements can be sold in many forms and versions, with different price tags. Some forms are better bioavailable than others, for instance, magnesium citrate is better absorbed than magnesium oxide, a cheaper form. In general, newer forms such as liposomal, liquid, or ionic suspended forms are better than the traditional capsules, tablets or softgels, but they are hard to find and more expensive. For example, vitamin C in liposomal form is almost equivalent to getting vitamin C intravenously, its absorption is 10 times higher than traditional capsules.
Finally, keeping your weight under control, and avoiding sugar in any forms, including lowering carbohydrates intake, such as pasta, bread, white rice or potatoes, which are digested to sugar, is an important anti-cancer strategy. Cancer cells rely more on sugar and much less on oxygen than normal healthy cells. Cancer cells absorb 16 times more sugar than normal cells, their metabolism is mainly anaerobic.
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