(photo)It is a legit question and the answer is one food alone can’t but a good nutrition with a mix of functional foods that fight the processes of cancer can help lessen the side effect of a standard cancer treatment. It also softens the aggressiveness of the cancer cells, help our body recover quickly as possible. Couple a healthy nutrition with daily exercise and relaxation and we greatly increase our chance to fight back cancer.
(photo)In winter it may be a little hard to get our 5 to 10 vegetables and fruits daily. Our creative mind can get the best and work it out. This vegetable side dish can go well with fish and chicken.
(photo)We may heard the term alternative or complementary used to name methods of prevention, diagnosis or cancer treatment. However, we wonder exactly was the difference. We ask ourself if these approaches are safe, proven scientifically and will work for us.
A proven cancer treatment is medical treatment with evidence-based. Tests were preformed set in a strict guideline and found safe and effective in a clinical trial. more…
(photo)What can we do to fight cancer is on our mind, especially when it struck next to us. We can lower or risk getting cancer with simple habit or changing some small lifestyle daily that can add on in a life time. It is not a guarantee with will not get cancer, but it increase the chance that modern cancer standard treatment will work. The tumor will be less aggressive, since we already fight it. more…
(photo)How ingredients make it in a recipe? Is it taste, texture or color? Or the ability it grant us to increase our well-being. For our life time, it is the taste that pretty much rules the day. However for a civilization which has lived for thousands of years, traditional foods and their ingredients give an advantage over other civilizations. We can take advantage of that fact. more…
(photo) How do we get cancer, is a good question. Cancer research had tried to answer that question from the past 40 years. We now know that it takes some 20 years to develop. It has to involve mutation in the DNA that leads to a malfunction in our body.But why some people get cancer and some don’t, is still in the grey. They come up with trend, factors that give us some guidelines to what to do and not, to increase our chance of survival. But cancer is a lottery and we only need one ticket to win ( or lose in this case). But one of the prime factors that we can control is our lifestyle. more…
(photo) Fear can be a big determination of our life. The fear of cancer can make us do some wacky things. We may even be incline to poison ourselves, if we think that increase our chance of survival. However, the best proved strategy is still standard cancer care with a healthy lifestyle. more…
(photo)Our quest to fight cancer makes us experiment all sort of mixture, folk remedies or ancient native tribes medicine which may hold promising results. Let be realistic, a good majority of people use complementary medicine want cancer knock on our door. We just to be inform of what may work and what was tested. One of these remedies which come from South America is Cat’s Claw or Uncaria tomentosa its medical name. more…
(photo)Water is an important part of our body, which is normal, since our body is made of about 70% of that molecule. We can go without food for weeks, but not water. We need an adequate intake of fluid to keep our body in balance. Our body can tolerate only a moderate change in fluid balance. Too little or too much fluid, can create an environment that we are not show with our A game and give cancer an open door to take a shot at us. It is an easy task to perform. Our brain and kidney work for us.
(photo)With the advance of standard cancer treatments, more and more people survive the first battle with cancer. However this treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and an even surgery come with a price tag. We are more inclined to sickness and there is a higher rate of obesity, diabetes, hypertension or osteoporosis than a group of people of the same age. We are more at risk, but cancer research shows us what current evidence, we can look for.
Cancer treatment can affect the health of our bones. Bones not only provide structure that we can move, walk, and run, swim and do our daily routine; they also provide our blood and immune system. Radiation treatment and medications can reduce hormone levels that are important to our bones. They create a higher risk of osteoporosis. But it seems, with a few tips, we can improve our bone health. more…