My worst nightmare

I love food. In particular, I love meat. I enjoy Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Italian food. But I'm told I should review my eating habits. I did some reading on diet for people with cancer or going through cancer treatment. There is a lot of info out there and many different ideas.  I’ve decided to pick and choose based on my lifestyle and advice from friends who have gone through a cancer experience.

Here are a couple of sites I found useful:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/eatinghints

http://www.healthcastle.com/cancerdiet.shtml

My diet choice

Zero meat. Why? Read this: http://www.cancertutor.com/faq/faq_meat.html

Majority raw fruit and vegetables. Here are just a few of the cancer cell killing nutrients (direct or indirect) in vegetables and fruits:

• 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))
• Turmeric (a spice) (curcurmin)
• Raw pineapple (bromelain and pexoxidase)
• Whole purple grapes with seeds and skins (more than a dozen, see Grape Cure article)
• Apricot seeds (laetrile)
• Strawberries, red raspberries, black raspberries (laetrile and ellagic acid)
• Blueberries (ellagic acid, anthrocyanins, OPC)

I found this list from “Raw Food Treatment”.  Sounds interesting: http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/RawFood.html

Modest amounts of milk products. I love my yoghurt.

Very small amounts of fat, sugar, alcohol, and salt.

My previous diet, which I love, is actually bad for me. It is a dramatic change, but a change I must make.