Good news - alternative therapy - diet and exercise :)

This is information taken from "The Choice" by Bernadette Bohan.  The book is about her battle against breast cancer.  I haven’t read it yet, but I have read the back section called “Change Simply”.

ISBN 0 00 775ch398 5

 

Juicing

·         Raw foods are better for you than cooked.  Heating food above 43ˊ destroys almost all the enzymes.

·         2 x 250ml of juice per day gives around 10 portions of fruit and vegetables.

·         All diets allow you to eat as many vegetables as you like.

·         Increases fluid intake

·         Tasty

 

She recommends a “masticating juicer”.  It is more expensive but worth it.  They are favoured because they grind, crush and press the fruit and veg slowly.

·         Produce good quality juice full of nutrients and enzymes

·         Produce little pulp

·         Simple to clean

·         Excellent for juicing leafy green vegetables and wheat grass.

·         Recommended foods – grape and apple; apple and carrot; celery and cucumber; parsley and :  spinach; wheatgrass – “a superfood”

Water

Tap water has the following:

·         Fluoride

·         Chlorine

·         Aluminium.

She recommends either the use of a home distiller that boils water and kills all germs, viruses and cysts; or a reverse osmosis filtration system.  I will get the latter.

Powerful foods

·         Nitrilosides:  wheat grass is the richest source.  Other good sources include apricot kernels, apple seeds, pear seeds, bitter almonds, walnuts, pecans, blackberries, goose-berries, cranberries, buckwheat, lentils, millet and sprouts (sprouting food)

·         Easiest seeds to start sprouting are alfalfa, red clover, fenugreek, onion, sunflower, sesame, pumpkin.

Powerful Supplements

·         Essential fats – Essential fats do not make you fat.  Excessive carbohydrates make you fat. Essential fats increase metabolic rate and noticeably boost energy levels which increases calorie burning.

·         Sources: 

o   seed oils such as flax, sunflower, sesame (keep refrigerated)

o   Oily fish

Enzymes

·         Found in raw food

·         Can be taken in supplements if you cannot keep food down (she had problems during chemotherapy)

 

Probiotics

·         Use probiotic supplements

·         Keep refrigerated

Safe personal care

·         Avoid fluoride

·         Avoid Sodium Lauryl Sulphate –harsh detergent used in commercial shampoos and toothpaste.

·         Aluminium – in antipersperants (this is true!)

·         Propylene Glycol:  found in skin care products, make up, body lotion, baby lotion.

Exercise

·         Cancer hates oxygen.  In 1931 Otto Warburg discovered lack of oxygen causes cancer, and received the Nobel Prize.  His conclusion was that oxygenating cancer cell was the best way to fight cancer as well as viruses, bacteria and fungal infections.  It follows that exercise, which oxygenates the body, will help ward off disease.  So let’s get moving!!

 

The great news is that I live within walking distance of an organic vegan supermarket, that is a local cooperative.  I think I will be doing a lot of shopping there.

 

Of course, the other news is that I will contact pilates Sarah and see if we can start an exercise programme to build up my fitness levels.