Food as Therapy

More on “Food as Therapy”, Supplements and Lifestyle

  • Cancer Fighting Foods PowerPoint Presentation
  • The UCSF Medical Center site features a document that contains over 90 pages of food and lifestyle recommendations for breast cancer prevention and treatment, including references and recommendations for additional reading. Access the full pdf here: http://cancer.ucsf.edu/_docs/crc/nutrition_breast.pdf
  • The importance of the micro-environment surrounding unhealthy cells should not be overlooked. In this short clip on Fox News honoring a producer who succumbed to TNBC in 2015, an emotional plea is made for awareness and chemo research with only a passing mention to lifestyle therapy Fox and Friends Raising Awareness for TNBC. At least in this clip from the TNBC Foundation honoring Robin Roberts, the Good Morning America Anchor who has fought TNBC and then a blood cancer caused by the chemo she received, Robin discusses the importance of diet and keeping a healthy weight as a deterrence to cancer TNBC Survivor Robin Roberts.
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering has put together an impressive collection of information on herbs and botanicals on their CAM website. It is searchable and includes information on the uses of the herbs, evidence base, and contraindications MSKCC Cancer Care Integrating herbs and botanicals
  • From Cancer Compass-An Alternate Route website Natural Healing with a Variety of Diet/Food programs
  • Life Extension Foundation is a supplement company that also conducts and publishes research on health and disease. Staff physicians are available for consults with customers http://www.lifeextension.com/Protocols
  • Kris Carr is a cancer survivor and advocate who wrote and directed a documentary about her journey. She is plant based and her site is a good source of information, inspiration, and recipes
  • John McDougall of Forks Over Knives documentary fame provides information and recipes on his site including this article about diet and cancer
  • Plant Pure Nation is the movement started by T. Colin Campbell (The China Syndrome) and son Nelson Campbell; info on the film, food, networking groups, recipes is available on PlantPureNation.com. Plant Pure Nation also sells prepared meals that can be shipped and kept frozen for times when cooking is not an option.

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