Overview of the Cancer Diet

Warning About Vitamin K

There are many very healthy foods which contain significant levels of vitamin K. Vitamin K is needed by the body for blood clotting, however, too much vitamin K can contribute to the creation of blood clots in some situations. No more than 25% to 30% of a person's diet should consist of foods high in vitamin K, which include (but is not limited to):
Broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, collard greens, cucumber peel (i.e. the skin), endive, green scallion, lettuce, mustard greens, spinach, turnip green, and watercress. Garlic should be avoided for other reasons and onions should be eaten in moderation.

While proteolytic enzymes are blood thinners, it is best not to try and balance blood clotting foods and blood thinners. It is best to use moderation on both sides of the issue.

About the Cancer Diet

The cancer diet is just as important as the cancer treatment!!

For example, suppose your house is on fire. As the fire trucks pull up to your house, and start to spray water on your burning house, suppose one of your neighbors, who does not like you, starts to spray gasoline onto your house from your back yard. Is your neighbor helping the fire department?

In exactly a similar way, a cancer treatment is trying to put out the "fire" of cancer which is spreading throughout your body. If you have a poor cancer diet you are essentially FEEDING the cancer cells.

Actually, you have several options with regards to your cancer diet:
1) You can simply avoid feeding the cancer cells (e.g. no sugar, no flour, no meat, etc.), or
2) You can use the cancer diet to help build your immune system and provide needed nutrients to the non-cancerous cells, or
3) You can use the cancer diet to help build the immune system AND help kill cancer cells, or
4) You can use the cancer diet as a cancer treatment.

In fact, many, many cancer patients have cured their cancer by using nothing but a cancer diet.

However, most cancer patients who seek out alternative cancer treatments have had extensive chemotherapy and radiation and these patients may need more than a good cancer diet.

How far you go with your cancer diet is up to you, but this much is clear, a poor cancer diet will undermine the cancer treatment and may even totally cancel out the cancer treatment!!

Gerson, Moerman, Hoxsey, and many others, were people who knew how to cure cancer and they knew that the "cancer diet" was a MAJOR FACTOR, EVEN THE PRIMARY FACTOR, in a person's ability to survive their cancer!!!

Many books have been written about various diets. You hear terms like "live food," "raw food," wheatgrass juice, carrot juice, macrobiotic diet, Lorraine Day diet, sprouting, and many, many more.

In somes cases, people will simply go to a clinic or a retreat to get their cancer diet. While this is good, it is important to remind the reader that using your cancer diet as the ONLY cancer treatment is not recommended.

It is best to use a solid alternative cancer treatment as the main treatment and use the cancer diet to build the immune system, kill some cancer cells and be a contributing factor in your cancer treatment.

But it is not recommended to exclusively use a cancer diet as your sole treatment, with very rare exceptions (e.g. the Gerson Clinic in Mexico).

The Basics

There will be a number of links at the bottom of this web page so you can learn more about various types of diets. But for now you should understand that if you are a cancer patient, and you want to survive your cancer, you had better become a vegan. Meat is absolutely forbidden for cancer patients, with the sole exception that cancer patients who are exceptionally weak may eat meat to provide needed proteins (and they are on a cachexia protocol, such as hydrazine sulfate).

Meat is forbidden for many reasons. First, pancreatic enzymes, which are critical for cancer patients, are programmed to digest meat before they are programmed to strip-off the protein coating of cancer cells, which makes the cancer cells "visible" to the immune sytem so the immune system can kill them.

Also, animal proteins may "feed" cancer cells as much as sugar. This is an unknown, but what is known is that meat proteins are one of the most consistent factors contributing to why a person gets cancer.

Meats are also very acidic. Obviously, sugar, white flour, and many other things, literally feed cancer cells because they are so acidic. Soda pops, even if "diet soda pops," are another example of a forbidden food because they are so acidic.

So why are acidic foods and drinks forbidden? The reason is the "inner terrain," as Dr. Robert O. Young and many others have called the inside of our body. Cancer cells become very agressive in an acidic environment and very docile in an alkaine environment. The book: Sick and Tired - Reclaim Your Inner Terrain, by Dr. Robert O. Young, PhD is a classic book on this topic (linked to below).

In fact, all animal products are forbidden with rare exceptions (e.g. the Budwig Diet)

Juicing

There are two advantages to juicing vegetables and fruits. First, juicing makes the nutrients in a fruit or vegetable more digestible by the body, meaning more of the nutrients are extracted from the vegetables or fruits with less of the obstructing fibers. The second advantage is that you can consume a lot more vegetables (particularly vegetables and fruits with cancer killing nutrients) in a shorter amount of time and with a lot less effort. Juicing is an excellent way to consume your fruits and vegetables.

The bad thing about juicing is that the nutrients are not extracted sufficiently from the seeds or skins of some key vegetables and fruits. If you are eating a food where the seeds and/or skins contain key cancer fighting nutrients (e.g. purple grapes), you should not use a juicer for the seeds or skin, but rather use a food processor or use a hand grinder, to grind the seeds and skins to make mush.

A Note About Carrots

A special note about carrots is in order. Like virtually all vegetables, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of phytonutrients (i.e. nutrients in plants not otherwise classified) in carrots that have not yet been identified or tested for cancer-fighting abilities. It may be that we do not yet know the best cancer-fighting nutrient in carrots, but based on many testimonials and some books, carrots may be the best cancer-fighting vegetable of all.

• "In a review of 206 human studies, carrots consistently emerged as one of the top cancer-fighting foods. The power of carrots lies in the group of pigments called carotenoids (beta-carotene is among this group), which give them their orange color."
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A long-time and highly reliable friend of mine (in fact, my wife and I had our wedding reception at her home more than 35 years ago), told me about her friend's father, who completely cured his throat cancer with carrot juice. In other words, he ate nothing and drank nothing but carrot juice and natural water. But I should mention that he did not have chemotherapy or radiation.

Closer to home, I have seen a clear pattern in the people I have interviewed, and testimonials that I have read, that carrot juice was the core element of their raw food diet. While the day may come that some other vegetable, such as beetroots (i.e. red beets), may be shown to be even better, until that day comes it would be advisable to make sure that carrots are the core of your vegetable juice.

Vegetables Juices

The RAW vegetables you should focus on are: carrots, cabbage, green asparagus, broccoli, red beets (i.e. beetroot), beet tops, cauliflower, asparagas and related vegetables. Peppers also have cancer fighting substances. The spice turmeric can be added as well.

AS A MINIMUM, the vegetable juice should include:
1) Carrot juice (1 to 2 quarts/liters),
2) Beet juice (from at least 2 red beets, with their beet tops)
3) A significant amount of cruciferous vegetables including: broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower (this is for both the cancer and the critical protection of the liver)

Important Note: Beetroot can cause the urine of a person to turn red. Thus, if you take beetroot and your urine turns red, it is not necessarily blood in the urine.

Here are just a few of the cancer cell killing nutrients (direct or indirect) in vegetables:
Raw Carrots (alpha carotene, beta carotene, Vitamin E, etc.),
Raw Broccoli (sulforaphanes/isothiocyanates),
Raw cabbage (isothiocyanates),
Green Asparagus (saponins),
Beetroot/red beets (proanthocyanidins (PAC's or OPC's)), and
Turmeric (a spice) (curcurmin).

A vegetable juice using 1 quart of carrots is the minimum level of carrots that is acceptable. Vegetable juices with 2 quarts of carrots has also been used by many people.

At least 80% or above of the vegetable juice should come from vegetables with known cancer-fighting abilities, although other vegetables are not far behind the ones I just mentioned.

Fruit Juices

As an alternative to a vegetable juice, you could also make a fruit juice. Unlike the vegetable juice, for which you should only take 1 to 2 quarts of carrot juice per day, there is no limit to how many fruit juices you can have each day.

RAW fruits you should focus on are: purple grapes (with skins and seeds), red raspberries, black raspberries, strawberries, and other non-citrus fruits, with their seeds, especially peaches and apricots (the seed is inside a hard shell). Actually, any fruit with dark blue or dark purple coloring is acceptable, such as blueberries. Raw pineapple is especially good if you can get it and afford it. Tomatoes also have cancer fighting nutrients.

Here is a sample of the known cancer-killing nutrients in fruits:
Raw pineapple (bromelain and pexoxidase),
Whole purple grapes with seeds and skins (more than a dozen),
Apricot seeds and apple seeds (laetrile),
Strawberries, red raspberries, black raspberries (laetrile and ellagic acid),
Blueberries (ellagic acid, anthrocyanins, OPC),

At least 80% or above of the fruit juice should come from fruits with known cancer-fighting abilities.

Also allowed are the super-fruit juices: mangosteen, noni and wolfberry or goji. These are allowed, but only in very limited quantities. No more than a 5 or 6 ounces of these super fruit juices (combined) should be taken each day because they place a burden on the liver by releasing a great deal of toxins in the body.

Another issue is glucose. Carrots have a high level of glucose. This glucose is readily taken in by cancer cells. When the glucose is taken in so are the nutrients in the carrots, etc. that kill cancer cells. Cancer cells steal from normal cells not only glucose, but nutrients as well.

When a person combines non-vegetable and non-fruit foods which are high in glucose with the vegetable juice or fruit juice, then the cancer cells are getting glucose from multiple sources and they may be getting a lot of nutrients from these other foods. These other nutrients may not kill cancer cells as well as carrot juice and some of the other vegetable juices.

In other words, do not consume vegetables or fruits, or any other food which is high in glucose, unless they are cancer-killing foods.

Mixing foods that contain high levels of glucose, but do not kill cancer cells, DILUTES the amount of cancer-killing nutrients that get into the cancer cells, making the treatment LESS effective!!

Should a Vegetable Juice Fast and a Fruit Juice Fast Be Combined?

The question naturally arises, how about combining a good vegetable juice with a good fruit juice? The answer is - don't. Your cancer treatment should be ALL vegetable juices or ALL fruit juices. It is one or the other for the entire treatment.

The reason for using ONLY vegetable juices or ONLY fruit juices in the cancer treatment is that cancer-killing nutrients frequently work cumulatively. In other words, it is the cumulative effect, over 3 or 4 or 5 consecutive weeks, that makes the treatment effective.

If you break that cumulative effect, by significantly changing the person's diet or treatment, the cumulative effect could be lost.

Cooking Foods

Cooking food destroys 100% of all enzymes in a food. Because many foods contain the necessary enzymes needed to digest that food (and get the nutrients out of the food), cooking food places a great burden on our body and does not allow a person to get as many nutrients out of their food. Actually, cooking food does damage to the value of the food in over two dozen different ways.

While it may be true that some nutrients are made more readily available by cooking, overall, it is better to eat vegetables raw than cooked, boiled or broiled. Some foods, however, are generally cooked for safety reasons, such as peas and green beans, to name but two.

• "Eating cooked food prevents the immune system from working on what is really important in keeping us superbly healthy and young in body, mind and soul. We exhaust and dissipate the body's strength by using the immune system to combat the unnatural cooked foods, chemically based supplements, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, hormones (in meats, poultry, fish and dairy) and numerous other toxins we ingest, breathe in or absorb through our skin. When we really need the immune system to support us (as when a disease or infection develops or an injury occurs), it then lacks the strength to defend us properly."

And another one:

• "Foods to avoid: all animal products, especially proteins and fats, i.e. no cooked meat, fat, eggs, milk, etc.; all refined sugars and starches; carbohydrates; oils; eat only fresh raw fruit and vegetables, juices and extracts."