Hi Guys,
Thanks for the advice. Yes, I guess it is a way of life, a holistic approach. At this point I really think he will give anything a try. I'm interested in trying it myself. To be honest I already eat a lot of the foods contained in a macrobiotic diet. Will look into it more.
I think one of our biggest problems if all the chemicals that are in foods etc are def not helping.. crop spraying and so on.. animals fed manufactured food also..
For anyone who's interested my friend and I have both been giving the macrobiotic thing a real go for the past couple of months. You weren't wrong about it being a lifestyle choice! There's so much to consider and it really does completely effect everything.
Really hopeful of keeping it up long term although I do find myself being tempted to slip every now and again...
Here's the WHO's stats on cancer:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/
Myarka
The WHO is a sham.....look up how they knuckled under to the sugar lobby regarding the intake of sugar....the lobby was going to withhold $400 million dollars.....:-(
For anyone who's interested me and my friend have been doing pretty well living macrobiotic. It was really tough at first but I think the biggest help has been utilising good recipes to make nice meals from your macrobiotics.
[url]I have found some great stuff on http://www.thekindfoodcompany.co.uk/recipes [/url]
And occasionally the BBC will do something that ticks the right boxes.
Is it helping the Lymphoma? Very hard to tell. But my friend reports he is enjoying the challenge of keeping macrobiotic!
Will a right diet help only for preventing cancer? Or can it help existing cancer patients too?
But how can we know what's the right diet? It looks like the researches change every day, and even they don't agree with each other.
As far as my reading leads me to understand, most research agrees about what a 'healthy diet' consists of - but people (the NHS, the AHA etc.) don't want to believe it.
Most research points to 'healthy' being low-carb, NO refined carbs, steer clear of polyunsaturated oils. How many official bodies are prepared to say that?
There may be at times seem that there's inconsistency in nutritional research, but so much of it is supressed until it can't be suppressed anymore.
Diet (as in want you eat) and nutrition (what you need from your food) is generally in most cases very easy:
*Eat seasonally and in tune with your environment as possible.
*Process food enough to get its best nutrition, and to reduce anti-nutrients
*Depend less on pack processed food and increase cooking for yourself/family/friends
*Don't believe marketing hype - whether in a supermarket or health food shop
*Dried fruit need rehydrating
*Listen carefully to your gut instincts and reactions to what you are consuming. If you feel crap for 24 hours or more, then maybe you shouldn't be eating it
*Vary your diet and joyfully try new foods and tastes occasionally
*Refined simple sugars is a drug - reduce consummation
*We should balance the 5 flavours - sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty
*Avoid products with trans-fatty acids, aspartame, MSG and anything that looks suspicious
*Not all 'E' numbers are bad and not all are good. Vitamin C is a E number!!
*Fats and oils are not dietary no no's and are part of good health. Choose organic and/or cold pressed oils & fats. As a society we could do with higher levels of omega 3 and a reduction of omega 6
*Appreciate what you are eating, you are partaking with the universe
*Chew slowly and digest well
*BMI & calorie counting is taken too much as gospel - based too much on statistics and not enough on individual differences
As for diet and cancer and can it help in cancer cases, it's like any other serious illness, the more you can do something and the more you can boost the immune system, the increase in recovery may be possible. The body if there is enough vitality can ride many of life's ripples, but if atrophy has gone to a very low ebb, no magic pill, chemical (chemotherapy is based on WW1 nerve gas), herb or food is going to help. But changing to a more wholesome diet at least is a positive step and well worth considering with other therapies and techniques.
Healthy Diet is part of the picture to fight against cancer. It takes take ages for people to understand the prevention of cancer is the basic needs of
a) daily intake sufficient of water
b) daily exercises
c) enough rest or sleep.
d) ..... keeping an active fitness life...and others (which needs more details explanation)
However, if someone is having the cancer, it is totally a different approach, as emotion would normally takes over everything. From the internet resources, alkaline foods or water would slow down the spread of the cancer. Some article even suggest higher dosage of Vitamin C would cure certain cancer.
While from my observation, the cancer hard to fight because the content of human body contains the harmful cells, just like a glass of clean water fill with few drops of ink. The more drops of the ink, probably means the higher stages of the cancer it becomes.
For me, i would think of Colon cleanse supplements to clean up or building up a good digestive or absorption system, I would not consider it as a lose weight supplement. What needs to be discharged from the body need to be replaced by alkaline food and drinks.
Some article suggest that Cancer means body is simply too acidic. This is what I'm working on. stay tune.