i think fad diets are a waste of time but the only thing I would say is that a few years ago I went onto soya milk as I thought it would be good for me and developed the most tremendous uncomfortableness (is there such a word!!) and sort of burning in my breasts. Went to the GP who examined me and could find nothing wrong and thought it was probably down to the hormones in the soya milk. Stopped the soya and the problem was resolved.
Second only to cows milk, goats milk and sheeps milk, Soya is the most common allergen! It’s the protein in both that is the biggest problem though the fat in either also causes problems for some people.
We are not designed to consume the milk of other species or human milk after weaning. I reckon that a lot of human foods have been improved thru plant breeding over the thousands of years to also lose some of their ingredients which makes them digestible in the wild form. Glad you found out what the problem was Crehensal.
Jenny xx
Further to the discussion on Jane Plant’s book; has anyone read today’s Daily Telegraph (Monday 16 June)? There is an article entitled Could this plate of food prevent cancer? from a book by Dr David Servan Schreiber entitled ‘Anticancer:A New Way of Life’. He, basically, seems to agree with Jane Plant with regard to diet.
Val
Well just to add a more partial view, two freinds of mine undertook this diet of Jane Plants both have since died of breast cancer, two other women i know who smoke, drink milk and slather butter on thier toast are alive and well 12 years on!!..cancer does not care if you drink no milk or give up wine its a very insidous disease that takes the well living and the ones who say “to hell with it”
After my primary diagnosis and before I had a bilateral mastectomy I went on the Plant diet. I was extremely strict with it for 4 years despite my love of butter and cheese. Then I was dx with multiple bone mets four years later. I was gutted and now have abandoned the diet and just try to eat a healthy balanced diet. Dairy free clearly didn’t work for me.
Rosdubh
Just to add my tuppence worth,I read Jane Plants book while on chemo.Being triple neg and with a poor prognosis sticking to the diet was the only thing that gave me hope in the early days and really helped get me through.I’ll be five years down the line this Christmas and whether or not my diet has anything to do with me still being cancer free I’m a lot fitter than I was pre BC days so it certainly hasnt done me any harm and I’ve had no problem sticking to it!
I have said this before somewhere on this website but in this context am going to say it again. I am sure taking too much soya caused my bc. I gave up dairy years ago, convinced that it was bad for humans, and went overboard for soya - used soya milk, cream, puddings, yoghurt and tofu. I cannot remember precisely when but some time in the year ( or less ) before I was diagnosed my body began to feel it had had some sort of boost - I am postmenopausal, pretty slim and my boobs were sagging somewhat - then I began to feel my boobs plumping up - I think someone else describes the odd sensations - and remember thinking perhaps it’s from the oestrogen in the soya. I hadn’t heard it could be bad for bc. Then, Bingo, I had this 36mm tumour - oestrogen positive.
So now I use neither dairy nor soya. Let’s see what happens!
Sarcath
I would be concerned about any diet which restricts calcium because of the affect on the bones. I have a diet very rich in calcium and was surprised to discover i had osteopeania when tested before starting Aromasin.
get calcium in lots of green vegetables- spinach etc.I’m strong as an ox and I’ve been veggie since 15 and dairy free for 4+yrs now!