Hi
I’m really keen to find a good book or some good information on an anti cancer diet.
Can anyone recommend any?
Thanks
Freddie
Hi Freddie
Whilst you wait for the other users to reply with their advice you may find the BCC booklet ‘diet and breast cancer’ useful. It covers different types of diet and nutritional issues.
If you would like a copy just follow the link below:-
breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/bcc_diet_09.pdf
I hope you find this helpful.
Kind regards
Sam (BCC Facilitator)
Freddie, I have been trying to find out the same!! Got a bk from Amazon along with the Susan Love one, but its a bit technical and not very good!
My MSN home page had 20 anti cancer foods the other day and I’ve looked at websites, now make sure i have my 5 a day, seeds, oily fish but i to would like more advice. I have looked at the leaflet on here, doesn’t really say much, sorry BCC
LOve Debs xxxxxxx
The lady who has the alright tit blog followed an anti-oxidant diet. It sounded rich in beetroot and spinach with no/little meat as they give the animals funny supplements which arent really good for us to eat.
Organic foods too.
Some people believe milk products are a no-no, because of the hormones they give dairy cows. A friend of mine (who was vegetarian) gave up milk products when she was diagnosed 10 years ago. Interestingly I gave up dairy at a similar time because of a low-grade lactose allergy, and here I am diagnosed with bc 3 months ago!
You can get lots of advice on the internet regarding nutrition & cancer, but the problem is separating out the scientifically proven advice from the old wives’ tales. Good luck!
Phili x
Hi
Thanks so much for the advice. I am trying very hard to be healthy but sometimes I do give in. My problem is that I love all the wrong things eg cheese,crisps,cake. I’m reasonably healthy but now I feel so terrible if I dare to have a packet of crisps! I also find it quite hard to eat all these healthy organic things when I’m cooking for four including two fussy children!!!
Still must try harder! I suppose the key is to make little changes gradually.
Has anyone heard of ‘The rainbow diet’ one ?
I have read that all types of beans, green veg eg esp spinach ,sprouts,broccoli are strong anti-cancer foods. My children will be chuffed about the sprouts ( NOT !)
Love Freddie xxxxxxxx
And, Freddie, don’t forget good quality dark chocolate which they also recommend, much to my delight! 
Hi Freddie
I’ve decided to follow the Plant Programme. The main message of that is no dairy (which I have found very hard but have stuck with) but the programme isn’t only that. There is lots of other dietary advice besides. I ordered the book from Amazon. The author Prof. Jane Plant has had advanced breast cancer.
Although I found it a hard switch of diet I was lucky because my husband went on it too. He feels great on the diet, has slimmed down and everyone tells him he looks glowing (his skin looks great lucky thing!). I’m on chemo at the moment which I have found extremely gruelling but I’ve picked up well in between. My brother actually tells me I’ve never looked healthier so think the diet must be doing something!
I’ve actually ordered the Rainbow Diet book today. The place to go is: canceractive.com
Hope this may be helpful.
Elinda x
“The Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Diet”, by Dr Michelle Harvie, is also relevant to those who have had bc - even people with secondaries, such as myself.
There is a negative review of this book on the Amazon.uk website which contains a factual error, saying “I bet it warns against” two types of food. Both of these food types form a part of the suggested healthy eating plans.
Dear Freddie the bristol cancer send nutritional advice free, it’s a vegan diet.
Leadie
Hi Freddie, I am also keen to find the best diet poss. My onc says just eat healthily and make sure you get at least your 5 a day. I’ve read the Jane Plant book too and found it good, I’ve gone on to oat milk and non dairy marg and cut out cheese, yoghurts, but spose the cakes and biscuits I’ve consumed may have dairy in!!! I’ve also read some threads saying their oncs didn’t back up the Jane Plant theory. It’s so hard isn’t it, we just want so much to be doing the right thing to keep the bc away and yet there are so many differing views on food out there. I havent heard of the rainbow diet must have a look at that one. I spose the one thing all seem to agree with is lots of fruit and veg and cut back on meats…which I guess is why my onc just says eat healthily. Really interesting thread, will be good to hear what other ladies have been advised.
Love Smiler
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Hi Freddie,
I found the book ‘Foods to Fight Cancer’ very useful. It gives all the science behind it, if you want that information, and is very readable. It is not contraversial (I won’t even start on what I think about Jane Plant, and yes I read her Your Life in Your Hands cover to cover)and it is easy to adapt a normal diet to include the cancer fighting foods.
Hi Ladies,
I see a Nutritional Therapist regarding my diet.
I have read lots of books and looked at things on the net and found it too much and over whelming.All I ever managed to do was take things out of my diet that I loved and that seemed to set me up to fail.
The lady that I see advises me on the best foods to have and why.
We also look at what I could be lacking and add suppliments in to support the system.
As far the cancer goes I am not sure what difference it makes BUT what I will say is I feel really well, have lots of energy and my bloods are always good.
I have had secondaries now for nearly 4 years and I’m still going strong.
Whatever you do to help yourself I honestly beleive will make a difference to your overall health.
Sometimes just doing the 5 a day can be tough.
juicing is very good for you but more vegetable than fruit.
Best wishes Tess
Hi Everyone,
Tess just wondering whether you got your nutritional therapist through the hospital? Sounds just what I need cos like you I’ve read lots and possibly too many conflicting things!I was really good with juicing during chemo but seem to have got out of routine with it recently,just been more busy with being back at work but must get back to it!
Love Smiler
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I just wanted to remind people that if they’re giving up dairy, be careful about substituting it with lots of soya, if your cancer is hormone receptive. I gave up dairy a few years ago for other reasons, switched to soya milk and yoghurts etc, and a couple of years later diagnosed with (ER +ve)BC. Is there a link, I wonder?
(Soya creates something in your body which is similar to oestrogen)
I’ve gone back to dairy now, despite reading Jane Plant’s book. It was just too hard, and my other problems I had with it had stopped. I just love cheese. And cream. And cereal last thing at night.
Jacquie x
Re the milk issue. can i just say that as an organic farmer’s wife we don’t give our cows any extra suppliments (execpt salt licks and natural minerals) however i think i’m right in saying that all milking cows produce a certain amount of hormones naturally and these may filter through into their milk. Sorry this dosn’t really help
cheers
caroline
I found my Nutritional Therapist from a recommendation and they are not the same as a nutrionalist.
Maybe try the yellow pages or google.
As for Soya…
There has been so much controversy that my N/therapist dosn’t recommend it.
The theroy of J Plants book is that the oestrogen is processed in a different way.
Organic rice milk with added calcium…
Takes a bit of getting used to though!!!
Could try apple juice on musli!!!
Hi Bikinggirl, I also tried rice milk n like you say took some getting used to! Have now discovered oat milk which I really like, even ok to drink on it’s own, don’t know wether you’ve tried it but for me it’s much nicer than the rice!
Smiler
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A friend of mine swears by this book: “The China Study” by C. Campbell. It might be better known in North America. Is anyone familiar with it? The author is an academic, a professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell.
Again, as far as I understand, its advocates no dairy and basically no animal products period.
I realise that even though I eat what I consider to be a healthy diet and am not over weight, I derive a LOT of pleasure from eating and don’t really want to lose that from my life.
I LOVE cheese: really strong cheddar, parmesan, goats cheese, wensleydale with cranberries, camembert, stilton, gorgonzola and mascarpone! the list is endless. I also like yogurts, ice cream and milk in my cappuccino.
There area lot of people out there who eat absolute rubbish and they don’t get cancer.
like many of you I am trying to take a proactive approach but find there is a lot of confusing advice. I have the Plant book and another by Susanne Olivier. The Olivier book (Preventing and overcoming breast cancer) is less extreme and packed full of information about a healthy diet, cancer fighting foods etc. Its good because she advocates making maneageable changes rather than taking an all or nothing approach, which pretty much sets you up to fail.
At the end of the day, a diet based largely on good old fruit and veggies can’t be bad, but it has to be something that we can live with. I eat a largely healthy diet with very little junk but have a great weakness for wine, beer (etc. etc. lol) and its linked with bc as well. If you give up everything nice in life you might live longer -or it might just feel like it lol!
One thing I do object to is those expensive books and supplements on the net that claim to cure cancer so long as you part with large amounts of cash. If all it took to cure cancer was a diet or crazy supplement I’m sure the medics would know by now. Authors of these programmes claim that the big pharmaceutical companies block the research as it would wreck their profits but if daft supplements could cure cancer then I’m sure the pharmas would be making more potent versions of these.
alex
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