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Cancer Diet – The Important Vitamins
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There
are many vitamins that are essential to the body's ability to fight
cancer. Some are not very well known
and one is essential. This article addresses
each vitamin, the role it plays and the best natural sources.
ARTICLE
A
cancer diet needs particular emphasis on the following vitamins.
Vitamin
A
Role:
as an anti-oxidant and important for healing.
Natural
sources: green and yellow fruits and vegetables, organic animal liver but
be careful, a non-organically raised animal's liver could be full of
chemicals!
Beta-carotene
- very important in a cancer diet - from carrots in particular, is
converted to Vitamin A by the liver, and is a far safer way to get a really
good boost of this vitamin, with no dangers of overdosing.
Vitamin
B Complex
Role:
particularly important to the health of nerves and the production of
energy.
Natural
sources are chicken, eggs, brewer's yeast, whole grains, leafy green
vegetables, fish.
Vitamin
B17 - almost unheard of, but critical in a cancer diet.
B17
interacts with the very large amounts of beta-glucosidase
in cancer cells to produce hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde.
These two poisons combine into an extremely deadly poison that targets
cancer cells. The reason that it doesn't target healthy cells is that
although they have small quantities of beta-glucosidase,
they also contain rodonase, a substance that
cancer cells do not have, that breaks the poison down into compounds that
actually assist the bodies immune system!
Natural
sources are flaxseed oil, brown rice, brewer's yeast, lentils, macadamia
nuts, pecans, raspberries, strawberries, walnuts, watercress and yams.
Vitamin
C
Role:
Antioxidant needed to assist over 300 metabolic functions of the body.
Natural
sources are citrus fruits, most yellow or red fruits and vegetables, leafy
green vegetables.
The
body cannot store this very essential nutrient so we need to ingest it
daily. As it is not stored it cannot
be overdosed.
A
word of warning though - do not take Vitamin C supplements at the same time
as aspirin - the combination is very irritant to the stomach lining. Also it taking a supplement, look for a
buffered form which is digested over a longer period of time and far less
irritant. Also avoid chewable
tablets - the acidity is not good for the teeth!
Vitamin
E, again crucial in a cancer diet.
Role:
Antioxidant, used in circulation and tissue repair.
Natural
sources include coldpressed vegetable oils, leafy
green vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and wholegrains. Brown rice, eggs, kelp, oatmeal and sweet
potatoes are also good sources.
Just
a note - the body needs zinc to maintain levels of Vitamin E in the blood,
also take iron supplements at a different time from Vitamin E as some forms
of iron will destroy Vitamin E.
As
always a diet that draws from all food groups, fruit, vegetable, meat,
fish, chicken, grains, nuts, seeds and oils, all eaten as close to the way
nature made them is the best cancer diet possible.
(Marilyn's partner Glenn was
declared cancer-free after 11 months using a nutritional approach. She
spent many hours researching an alternative to the barbaric surgery offered
as Glenn’s only hope. Needless to
say he never did have the surgery. They are now on a mission to
"spread the word" about the many things they discovered we can
all do to fight cancer. For more crucial, potentially lifesaving
information please visit www.cancer-einfo.com)
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