Holistic

[Katherinelopez]

Has anyone or is anyone trying holistic places for treatment. I am looking into the Gerson diet.

[Barbteeth]

Hi there

I’ve read up on this diet which was introduced in the 1920s

The diet seems very healthy as it consists of vast amounts of fruit and vegetable juices but also eliminates other food groups which I doubt is advisable

Also it must require an enormous commitment...I know I would find it impossible to follow as it would take over my life

Just my opinion

Barb XX

[kearnan in reply to Barbteeth]

Enjoy your life and what you like to eat. I have not made no changes to my diet at all. I eat what I have always eaten, still smoke (so hard to quit) and I have not had progression (its in my lungs) for two years now. I am one of those people that do not believe in all these so called diet changes that make cancer disappear. We will, at stage iv, be in treatment for life. These days its considered more of a chronic illness, than a terminal one and I do not intend to stop anything I enjoy eating or doing. I have been stage iv for two years now.

[Southside25]

This diet seems awfully old-fashioned to me. Fruit juices, even fresh, are full of sugar and should be avoided. Not only is the sugar not good for you, you lose the fiber you would get from actually eating whole fruits. I've read that drinking fruit juice is pretty much the same as drinking pop. A glass of fresh-squeezed OJ has about the same amount or more sugar as an equal amount of pop. I've talked to my onc. about diet, particularly sugar which is said to feed these estrogen tumors, and she doesn't buy it. She suggested following a healthy diet everyone should follow: lots of veggies and whole fruits, limit sugar (everyone should limit sugar) and other carbs, lean meats. Eat real food made from scratch and not from a box or a can. Detoxification and enemas are a waste; you're body detoxes itself every time you go to the bathroom - that's why we have a liver and kidneys.

[Barbteeth in reply to Southside25]

Well said...I totally agree

Barb xx

[blms]

I only eat berries and do not juice them ever. Blueberries and raspberries are good for you. I do the budwig diet mix in morning.

I have dramatically changed my diet since I was advanced to MBC and personally I do not find it a sacrifice but how I now love to eat. Initially I lost 12 pounds, now 116 snd 5.2”, so good healthy weight for a 69 year old. I do walk a peaceful 2 miles though wooded area 5 days a week, without sunscreen or sunglasses to maximize my vitamin D. I do make a green drink daily in AM which consists of only organic vegs, Romaine lettuce, basil, mint, arugula, spinach, broccoli and kale with ice and filtered water. Love that! Then lots of healthy mushrooms which I sauté with leeks and garlic and olive oil. I am a B blood type so I digest lamb well and love it so three times a week it is nit uncommon fir me to add a baby lollipop chop to my huge greens for salad with mushrooms on side and other organic vegs and some in season organic fruits. i try to eat an organic apple daily as well.And I always add a variation of some organically made sauerkraut stick every lunch. My biggest meal is afternoon and then I commonly do a farting mimicking diet to give my cells a chance to clean and repair. I am never hungry after that and just drink clean water, sometimes with lemon, green teas. I eliminated all sodas and fruit juices a long time ago. On the weekends I will normally have a Dubonnet or glass of sparkling as a treat. And then eat with my family as a social thing more than hunger.

[blms]

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