(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)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)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…
(photo)When we had cancer, we went to the cancer treatment, with cycle of hours sitting at the hospital, plugging in to get chemotherapy and being sick a few days later after each treatment from the side effect. We do have greater risk to get it again. By knowing this, we pretty much have to do the right thing not to get it again. The right thing is to change our old habits which had increased our risk to get cancer in the first place.
(photo)Cancer treatment can be very hard on our body. The feeling of fullness and the change of smell or taste can cause change in our appetite. Since food is the energy and weapon, we need to cope with the standard cancer regime; we need strategy to overcome the challenge of decreased appetite.
(photo)anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.
Chinese proverb.
Burning candle in by both ends, we hear it a lot in our modern society. Performance, be the first and push it to our limit, our environment push us to be at peak performance every day. But to be able to keep up on the long run, we need maintain our body and give us pause to repair damage. more…
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We can imagine the grimace we got on our face when we bite into a lemon slice. Well breast cancer cells react even worst. Citrus is a type of food that we specially do not appeal to our taste, we accept the orange jus in the morning but what about the other citrus like clementine, grapefruit, lime and lemon. We should at less eat one citrus per day. When life give us lemons, we need to make lemonade. more…