Eating for Health and Breast Cancer

Eating for Health and Breast Cancer

Eating for Health is the beginning of your breast cancer nutritional recovery
strategy, not the end. Our aim is that you start with the recommendations in this
chapter, then use the ensuing chapters to customize the program based on your own
unique needs and biochemistry. That’s how it works best.

Eating for Health Guidelines

Eating for Health is based on science and sustainability. Here are some guidelines to
help you embrace this new way of relating to food. You may want to check off the
ones you already follow, and star the ones you intend to add to your daily routine:

• ___________ Grow your own salad greens and herbs, and if you have a

large yard, cultivate fresh fruit or nut trees, or berry vines.

• ___________ Drink plenty of filtered water each day, about one-half cup (4

ounces) every hour.

• ___________ Read labels and avoid foods with artificial ingredients.
• ___________ Avoid eating refined and artificial sugars, especially in

pastries and confections.

• ___________ Eat more vegetables; learn to love legumes!
• ___________ Consume breakfast before 10:00 a.m. and include a serving of

good-quality protein.

• ___________ Have protein at three-to-four-hour intervals during the day to

curb sugar cravings and stabilize blood sugar and insulin production.

• ___________ Minimize caffeine intake to 50 milligrams a day or less for

women, and twice that for men.

• ___________ Choose monounsaturated fat (from olives, avocados, almonds,

macadamia nuts) or virgin coconut oil over fat from commercial meat and

dairy or polyunsaturated oils (soy, corn, sunflower).

• ___________ Decrease consumption of glutenous grains (wheat, rye, and

barley), which may cause digestive disturbance.

• ___________ Increase consumption of gluten-free grains (rice, organic

corn, millet, quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth).

• ___________ Have two or more servings of colorful vegetables per meal

for optimal pH (acid-alkaline) balance. Overacidity causes inflammation and

depletes the body of calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium (Frassetto

et al. 2000).

• ___________ Add “booster” foods, such as algae, sea vegetables, nutritional

yeast, and culinary spices, to your diet to increase trace minerals, which aid

healthy metabolism, detoxification, and antioxidant activity.

• ___________ Eat slowly, with blessings and gratitude.