It has long been held that a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables that are chock full of antioxidants are cancer fighting foods. Many women have had breast cancer, and gone through treatment to get rid of the cancer, and find out dome time down the road the cancer has recurred. Many women are trying a new holistic approach that does not consist of the radiation and the chemo, because, in some cases, the treatment can cause cancer to come back.

The women who have succeeded in treating their cancer with diet have had to learn a whole new eating lifestyle. The first thing they learned to do was to throw away all the white bread, white rice, and filled their pantries with brown rice, and whole wheat breads, cereals, bagels wheat germ, and crackers. The diet to help fight breast cancer also contains 1 to 2 servings of beans every day. You can eat beans by themselves, or you can add them to salads; you can put beans in almost anything. Beans are good cold or hot. You can cook up a pot of dried pinto beans, black eyed peas, or chick peas. You can also buy canned beans. You may have gas for a while until your intestinal tract gets accustomed to the beans, but the bloating will pass in time. Dried beans are very inexpensive, and they keep well in your pantry. You can cook up a bag and put a little good fat in the pot, like a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, or some other healthy fat.

Brazil nuts and walnuts are some of the best nuts to wage war on breast cancer. Brazil nuts and many other types of nuts contain antioxidants and they are loaded with selenium. Most people avoid nuts because they are considered fattening. Nuts are fattening if you are snacking on them all day long; however, if you add a handful of nuts throughout the day into your meal plan, the nuts will not be fattening, and you will be fighting breast cancer. It is important to get the nuts that have not been processed and salted. If you can deal with cracking nuts ahead of time, this is great; otherwise, try to get the nuts that have not been roasted and salted.

Selenium is an important part of the diet when you are fighting breast cancer, or any other kind of cancer. Studies show that people with low levels of selenium have higher risk of developing cancer. Low selenium, in itself, isn’t believed to be the culprit to cause breast cancer, skin cancer, colon cancer, lung and prostate cancer. However, selenium is part of the body’s “recipe” to make the antioxidant, glutathione. Glutathione helps the body to enhance Vitamin C and Vitamin E in the body, which are essential in detoxifying the body of free radicals.

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables will help the body fight cancer. Our bodies are designed to heal itself in many cases, but we put so many poisons into our bodies. The poisons that we put into our bodies might be cigarette smoke, unhealthy foods, and medications that are designed to treat disease. Many medications that treat an illness will cause an illness somewhere else in the body. Many medications taken for pain will cause liver and kidney damage. It is very important for people with breast cancer and other types of cancer to eat a healthy diet. Many people who treat their cancer with diet eat as many as 9 or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. If you eat 3 meals per day, you should eat 3 servings per meal. That could be one fruit and two vegetables. If you eat snacks in the day, it is good to add fruit and vegetables for the snacks also. If you are interested in treating breast cancer with a change in diet, ask your health care practitioner for guidance. These healing foods can supplement your cancer treatment.

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