Nutrition Is Power for for breast cancer survivors

The Eating for Health approach to improving eating habits and food choices

supports health and contributes to protecting healthy cells from becoming

cancerous; it doesn’t claim to be curative. If we assume that cancer is a genetic

disorder, our focus is on which foods support cancer-protective gene expression

versus which foods promote cancer proliferation. The research on this nutritionbased

approach is still emerging, because foods have not been studied as

exhaustively as botanical and, especially, pharmaceutical medicines.

Because few researchers have tested the healing power of diet alone for breast

cancer, we see the role of food and nutrients as promoting health and peace of mind,

and supporting life. Jeffrey Bland, a pioneering biochemist in the field of

nutrigenomics, has stated (2010) that fresh, whole plant foods speak to our genes in

a language they understand, encouraging them to function in a health-promoting

way (more on this in next explain about Eating for Health Foundational Plan).
It is logical to conclude that consuming foods that

were grown in poor soil, and then overprocessed and blended with chemical

additives, colors, and preservatives, is less conducive to health in general due to

such foods’ low nutrient content and tendency to arouse inflammation at a cellular

level. We will explore this premise in detail in the chapters to come.