Are you Feeding your Cancer or Nourishing your body

Complementary Cancer Therapies

Mainstream medical treatment of cancer revolves around therapies that damage healthy cells with often debilitating side effects, frequently forcing patients to abandon treatment. Therefore it’s not surprising that many cancer patients now opt to complement conventional treatments with alternative therapies that may temper adverse side effects and also improve effectiveness. 

Nutrition

If you have cancer, you may be well aware of the link between the foods you eat and your risk of cancer. But for those of you who don’t, suffice it to say that virtually everything you put into (or onto) your body can either help or hinder your natural healing mechanisms, and thereby influence your risk of cancer and recovery.

This is not an "alternative" view at all. Rather, even the conservative Canadian Cancer Society states that:

About one-third of all cancers can be prevented by eating well, being active and maintaining a healthy body weight.

The science is clear: it’s the overall pattern of living that’s important. You can lower your risk if you move more, stay lean and eat plenty of vegetables and fruit, as well as other plant foods such as whole grains and beans.

Learn what you should be doing to strengthen, support and help recover your cancer.

When used properly nutritional supplementation can enhance the effectiveness of conventional cancer treatments, boost the immune system, and improve the patient’s quality of (and control over) life.

Many cancer patients take supplemental nutrition during cancer treatment to alleviate treatment toxicities and to improve well-being.