Nutrition
“You dig your
grave with a knife and fork”. (Old English proverb)
Nutrition and the related subject of supplements is one that
has received a great deal of attention in cancer
treatment and with a great deal of justification. A
number of different nutritional therapies have been
proposed for the treatment of cancer and I refer you to
the following links for more information.
My personal experience is that nutritional therapy is
similar to all other CAM therapies; the diet needs to be
adapted to the individual metabolic needs of the patient.
Therefore I tend to favor a form of metabolic nutritional
therapy which in its least individualised form can be seen
in the Blood Type diet of D’Adamo, more differentiated in
the 12 metabolic types of Nicholas Gonzales, and the
Metabolic diet of Bill Wolcott. Of course, diets in the
Ayurvedic and Chinese medical traditions are individualised
as part of their regular diagnostic and treatment programs
and relevant specialists should be consulted.
Metabolic
Diets
Eat
Right 4 Your Type -
http://www.dadamo.com/
Metabolic
Diet by B. Wolcott:
Overview - http://www.canceractive.com/page.php?n=461
Website -
http://www.healthexcel.com
Nicholaz
Gonzalez Nutritional Regimen – includes a
large number of supplements
Website - http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/
Dr. Gonzalez's dietary program, as well as most of the
metabolic dietary program, is based on Dr. Kelley, who
cured himself of pancreatic cancer in 1973.
For an online version of his book "One
Answer to Cancer".
General
Dietary Advice for Cancer patients
The Penny Brohn
Cancer Center in the UK provides some excellent general advice on
diet.
Johanna Budwig Diet
I include this
diet because it has a long track record and is relatively
simple to apply. Information can be found at the
Healing Cancer Naturally
website.
The
Gerson Diet
One of the most
well-known cancer diets.
Website: http://www.gerson.org/
Macrobiotic Diet
I include this
diet because of its popularity in the Arab world (as
promoted by Miriam Nour) – generally it is considered a
cancer prevention diet rather than a cancer therapy diet.
There have been some variations introduced to the diet
since its inception. I have provided a few links which
explain the diet and one link that shows the problems with
the strict application of the original Kushi diet,
especially in already debilitated cancer patients.
Kushi institute website
Egyptian-affiliate of Kushi
institute
Modified macrobiotics site
(UK)
Arabic macrobiotic site
created by
Mariam Nour students in Egypt
Problems with strict macrobiotic diet in
cancer patients - orthodox
medical view