Healing with Food Article

How I Cured Cancer with Diet

Accompanying recipe: Miso Soup with Broccoli and Wakame

Fifteen years ago, I reversed advanced cervical cancer with a healing diet. I’m still enjoying the same delicious diet and I remain cancer free. And, I've helped many other people recover their health by following this common sense, healthy diet.

Here's the five-step diet, followed by a recipe that uses five foods specifically healing to cancer.

1. Mental Preparation and Tracking
Aspire to feel better. Free up enough time to educate yourself and to implement some new routines. Soon healthier habits will become rote and then maintenance is a matter of course. As you proceed, track how you feel—mentally, emotionally and physically—when you eat well and when you don't. When you eat imbalanced meals or shoddy, stale foods, you’ll feel imbalanced, shoddy and stale. Continue to be aware of the direct correlation between feeling good and eating well.

2. Fill Your Kitchen with Quality Foods
Real food tastes better and is more satisfying. Quality means whole, vital and organic rather than refined, processed and adulterated. Thus, favor brown rice over a brown rice cracker or white rice. Use extra virgin olive oil and avoid any flavorless (and therefore refined) vegetable oil. Because their vitality is compromised, bypass canned, frozen or packaged foods.

3. Prepare Balanced Meals
When your diet is balanced, you're nourished and satisfied. For most people, an ideal meal will consist of one-third protein, one-third non-starchy vegetables and one-third complex carbohydrates plus one to two tablespoons of quality fat or oil. You'll find that when you get enough of everything else, you don’t crave carbohydrates.

4. Favor Freshly Prepared Meals
Food prepared today and eaten today gives maximum energy, satisfaction and healing. Yesterday's food is never as fulfilling. And if you’re not satisfied, then you tend to nibble on something else. This is especially true for grains and vegetables, as your own taste buds can confirm. Imagine two still-warm slices of toast or steamed broccoli spears. Next, imagine eating one right now and the other tomorrow.

5. Choose Easily Digested Foods
The best food in the world is bad for you if it stresses your gut. Soft-cooked foods are easier to digest than fried foods, baked goods or raw foods. Warm or room temperature foods and beverages are easier to assimilate than cold or hot ones. It is critical to chew well. Older people and anyone with compromised health generally needs digestive supplements. When convalescing, favor soups, stews and soft foods.

Five superior cancer-combating foods are miso, mushrooms, seaweed, and vegetables from the onion and cabbage families. This comforting soup uses all of these foods.

May you be well nourished,

Rebecca Wood