Many cancer survivors had shared experiences on how they have battled cancer. Some have written books, web pages and even started foundations to share their triumphs. Majority focused on their diet apart from their medications as a strategy to fight the disease.

Utmost of their plans were plant based diets consisting of  a variety of vegetables and fruits a day. Dark Green and leafy vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, cabbage, Brussels sprout, eggplants, artichoke, asparagus, kale, basil, bitter melon, carrots and a host of other vegetables specially the deeply colored ones have more phytochemicals that retard the growth of cancer cells. Darkly colored fruits such as blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, grapes, pomegranate, tomatoes, and apples are rich in phytochemicals and flavonoids also inhibit the growth and spread of those deadly cancer cells. If your dietitian had a made a diet plan for you incorporating at least 5 or 10 fruits and vegetable a day by all means stick to it. At the best, your diet should be dense in vegetables and fruits.

Of course, it is understandable that a drastic change in your eating habits and food preferences is always difficult. You might find your diet boring. But little and gradual changes are beneficial.

If you cheat on your diet of eating your greens and fruits and binge on fried and greasy food once, it might not be so much of a problem. Cheating all the time is the problem. Eating more of fat laden, sweet foods mixed with preservatives such as hot dogs, greasy burgers won’t help you progress in your fight with cancer. These foods feed cancer cells and in the long run destroy your well laid plans of licking the disease that threaten to consume you. If you cheat on your diet plans all the time, it’s like saying goodbye to all those potentially good days of your life that you are trying to win.

So how do you break that bad habit of cheating? For starters, motivate yourself so that you have to strongly and single-mindedly focus on your goal. Remember the adage that we are what we eat? And that rings true in the fight against cancer. Eating farmed animals that have been treated with hormones will willingly coax those cancer cells to aggressively grow and spread ruthlessly. Find ways to prepare your vegetables to look and taste deliciously. Blend broccoli with carrots, add a dash of cinnamon, a few sprigs of mint, an apple and a twist of lemon .Why not make fun out of concocting recipes, mix and match and maybe you can come up with a delicious juice or vegetable-fruit juice recipe? That way you can have your cake and eat it too.