The All Food, But Only Food Diet

Eat All Food and Only Food

All food is good for you.

Most foods have healing properties.  All food has superfood potential.  You just have to think of something you like, do a bit of research, and someone has found out its healing powers. Or, your favorite food has yet to be discovered as the New Miracle Food.

But some things are not food, and not good for you.  Do not eat these.
And some foods are too processed or treated in such away that their benefits are destroyed, and they have become harmful. Do not eat these either.

Follow the “Only eat food, and lots of kinds of food” rule, and you will get tons of anti oxidants, minerals, vitamins, and all the anti tumour, and anti cancer chemicals science is just starting to discover. Do not eat filler foods that fill you up, but don’t nourish the body.

Don’t Eat This!

The Not Foods:
Under no circumstances eat:
Artificial sugars or sweeteners – They are unhealthy and will make you fat
Artificial food Colouring – some is made from food, some is not
Artificial Flavour
Nitrates – found in processed meats
Sulfates
Mono sodium Glutamate
Gum – don’t even chew it
Any products  with non-food ingredients on the label

The Foods that Are Ruined:
Milk – don’t drink it unless it’s organic and unpasturaized, from a dependable source
Yogurt – unless it is organic
Beef – unless it is grass feed, or organic
Apples – unless they are organic
Potatoes – unless they are organic
Strawberries – unless they are organic
Corn and Corn Products – unless the package says they are not GMO (Genetically modified Organism)
Soy Products – except organic tofu or miso
Salmon from a farm

The Foods that are processed, have no value, and take the place of all the other delicious food that will heal you:
White flour, pasta and baked goods
White Rice, and rice products
Puffed rice
Sugar
Glucose
Fructose
Alcohol – except limited amounts of red wine
Bottled (cooked) juice
Corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil

Comment if you think of something I forgot on my Don’t Eat This! list

Bon Appetit!

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Rhonda, May 23rd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in anti cancer diet, superfoods

Classic Mushroom Soup

This classic tasty soup promotes health and fights cancer. Makes about four bowls of rich, creamy mushroom soup. I use a variety of mushrooms. For the people you love…

Ingredients

4 tablespoons of butter
16 oz. of mushrooms, any kind, chopped
1 cup of chopped onions
1/2 cup of chopped celery
1 chopped organic potato
8 sprigs of thyme
2 cups of organic bone broth
2 cups of organic whole milk (or a mix of cream and milk)
salt
pepper
chives
parsley

Melt the butter in a large pot
Add the onions and fry on low heat for about 10 minutes
Add the celery and potatoes  and fry for 5 more minutes,
Add one teaspoon of salt, and a pinch of black pepper
Add the mushrooms and thyme and fry for 5  minutes
Add the broth and simmer for 10 minutes, make sure the potatoes are cooked
Add the milk and puree in a food processor or with a hand blender
Taste, and add salt and pepper as needed
Heat thru
Add to bowls, and top with chopped chives and parsley

How the ingredients  fight cancer:

Celery
Contains eight families of anti-cancer compounds including  acetylenics that have been shown to stop the growth of tumor cells,  phenolic acids, which block the action of prostaglandins that encourage the growth of tumor cells and coumarins which help prevent free radicals from damaging cells.

Onions
Onions extracts are  rich in a variety of sulfides and  provide some protection against tumor growth.

Butter
Many of the saturated fats in butter have strong anti-cancer properties. Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acid chains that have strong anti-tumor effects. Butter also contains conjugated linoleic acid which gives excellent protection against cancer. Vitamin A and the anti-oxidants in butter–vitamin E, selenium and cholesterol–protect against cancer as well as heart disease.

Mushrooms
Mushrooms contain Beta Glucan, and have an anti cancer and anti tumour effect.They help your body with immune response.

Bone stock Bone stock contains minerals in a digestible forms, is used for the treatment of many diseases including cancer, helps the body absorb protein.  Broth is good for the digestive system.

Potatoes
New studies indicate that potatoes may be toxic to some lines of cancer cells

Thyme
Thyme contains an essential oil that is rich in thymol, a powerful antiseptic, antibacterial, and a strong antioxidant.  It contains  terpenoids which are recognized for their cancer preventive properties. Rosmarinic and ursolic acids are major terpenoids in thyme that possess anti-cancer properties.

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Rhonda, May 10th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
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How to convert a bra into a mastectomy bra in 5 minutes

Why I make my own:
I am a small size, and I don’t like most of the styles of mastectomy bras, and I can hardly even find any.

What you need:

A bra
Buy one that has cups large enough to cover the fake breast.
Try it on to make sure the fake breast fits in on all sides, and that the neckline of the bra fits close against your skin, and doesn’t gape.
I like a wide gusset. (That’s the part that connects the two cups)
I like underwire for shape, and logistics.  My favs are elita underwire and new fav, warners lace charmers 2512.  I don’t like molded cups because I find they gape.

Fabric
I use old tee shirts.  I like nice soft thin fabric.

Sewing Machine
I use a sewing machine.  But you can do this by hand…it will take a bit longer

Steps:

  1. Cut out a piece of fabric larger then the cup
  2. Place the fabric under the bra
  3. Sew from the outside of the bra
  4. Sew along the edge of the bra,  from the strap to the centre
  5. Then from the centre, along the bottom,
  6. And then from the strap, along the armpit edge, to the band
  7. Carefully, cut off the excess fabric, leaving a flap at the opening

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Rhonda, May 3rd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Breast Cancer Lifestyle, How to make a mastectomy bra

scientific evidence for supplements – a graph

Here is an interesting graph from Snake Oil.

The higher the bubble on the graph, the more proof has been found that it works to fight the medical condition indicated on the bubble. The bigger the bubble, the more it has been searched on line.

Interesting to note that Beta Glucan, and Vitamin D are fairly high up on the graph, meaning that they are currently considered proven cancer fighters.

The info used to make this graph is from large, human, randomized placebo-controlled trials. They did not count animal trials or cell studies.

Go to the site for the interactive version of the graph.

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Rhonda, April 12th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in vitamins and supplements for fighting cancer

Cell phones – protect yourself

We love our phones and so no one wants to see the link between breast cancer and cell phones. Kind of like smoking in the 50′s.  People knew smoking wasn’t healthy, but they didn’t want to admit it to themselves.  How could something so common, and widespread be unhealthy?

There are many studies of the effect of cell phones on the brain.

I have not found any studies on the effect of cellphones on the breasts…but  Doctor John G. West in Orange County has seen a link. Two women who carried their phones close to their breast,  found lumps close to where they kept their phones. A similar coincidence happened to me.  I believe that the link  between cell phone radiation and breast cancer deserves a study.  In the meantime…

how do you protect yourself?:

Be extra careful in rural areas because you get more radiation from your phone as your phone works harder to get the satellite signal.

Use the speaker phone on your phone, if you have one, when  you can.

Keep your phone away from your body, even when not in use. Don’t keep it near your bed at night.

Cordless home phones may also be dangerous, so keep these away from your body too.

Find  the  SAR rating (specific absorption rate) of your cell phone.

Good luck trying to tell your teenager to keep her phone away from her ovaries,  breasts and brain!

May 17 article on Cells and Brain Cancer from the Globe and Mail

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Rhonda, April 11th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in cell phones & breast cancer?

mushrooms are magic

cremini, oyster and shiitake

Eat mushrooms
Lots, and everyday if you can!

Mushrooms fight cancer
Mushrooms have chemicals that are anti tumor, anti cancer, and they activate your immune system. They also contain antioxidants, as well as chemicals that lower cholesterol and blood sugar levels. They have significant levels of  of selenium, b vitamins, and are low calorie,  (until you add a ton of butter!)

  • Current studies have proved what wise people have know for centuries…  mushrooms have medicinal properties.
  • – Beta Glucan, a key chemical in mushrooms,  activates your body’s immune response. Known as biological response modifiers Beta Glucans get your white blood cells working to consume tumor cells, pathogens and dead cell material. Basically they tell your immune system to get working and clean up your body. It’s also found in oats.
  • - Macrobiotics (practitioners of a radical Japanese health diet that claims to fight cancer) advise eating shiitake  mushrooms.  They prefer to eat mushrooms cooked and preferably sun dried.
  • - Andrew Wiel, a doctor turned health food expert strongly believes in mushrooms and eats them everyday.
  • A mushroom (kawaratake) extract  is  used in Japan, intravenously, combined with chemo for  cancer treatment.
  • - You can  take AHCC capsules (active hexose correlated componds) that contain a Shiitake a mushroom extract. These are very expensive. About 100$ a bottle.  AHCC is a very popular anti cancer nutrient.  It is also supposed to help counteract the effects of chemo.  I consumed one bottle of these, about a year after my cancer treatments.  Now I just eat mushrooms as much as possible.  If I was rich, I would take one of these a day. Forever.

Just eat them
Each edible mushroom type contains a unique combination of chemicals. I personally eat all (edible) mushrooms, because I like mushrooms, and I believe that the many health benefits are yet undiscovered.  They all taste good, and are easy to incorporate into everyday cooking.

Here are some common mushrooms.  They even have these at my local small town grocery store:

  • Portabello – lowers hormones, may help prevent breast cancer.  These are pretty easy to find in stores, and they come in small (babyportabello or cremini) and large (4″).
  • White mushroom (button mushroom) – inhibit growth of certain cancers.
  • Enokitake – anti tumor, and longer surival rate.  These are beautiful delicate mushrooms that you can put raw in salads, or add to soups at the last minute.
  • King oyster mushrooms - stimulate the immune system.
  • Shiitake – Rich in beta glucan.  Stimulates the immune system. A traditional Japanese mushroom, that can be used in most recipes where you would use regular button mushrooms (except you don’t eat the stems because they are too tough). The flavor is a bit different. You can also buy these mushrooms dried. Contains Lentinan, a drug used in some countries to fight cancer because it has anti-tumor properties.  AHCC is made from shiitake mushrooms.
  • Oyster mushroom – prevent breast and colon cancer, lowers cholesterol.
  • Maitake – (Hen of the woods) inhibits the growth of breast, liver and lung cancer. Shown to stimulate the immune system of breast cancer patients.

I use all these, and I use them interchangeably.  I put them in most foods, and I make a mean mushroom soup.  OK, just start buying them.  How can you go wrong?

Peace

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Rhonda, April 10th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in superfoods

Florentines – Superfood Cookies

These tasty chewy cookies have more fruit and nuts then sugar, flour, or butter. They are not hard to make, and I think they taste better then any  other cookies. Only use natural ingredients. Organic ingredients make these even tastier and more healthy. This recipe is adapted from the Joy of Cooking.

Florentine superfood cookie recipe from what i did to survive on Vimeo.

Florentine Recipe

Preheat oven to 350

Mix
1 1/4 cups of mixed dried organic fruit, such as raisins, blueberries, cranberries, cherries, apricots, figs, apricots.  Do not use dried fruits that have added sulfur.
1/2 cup of whole grain flour

Put in a blender, along with:
4 tablespoons of Brown Sugar
4 tablespoons of honey
1/2 cup of walnuts or chopped almonds, sunflower seeds
1/8th of a teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

Blend until the fruits and nuts are in 1/4″ pieces
Add 4 tablespoons of butter
And re blend until the pieces are about 1/8″

Form dough into 1″ balls and place on buttered cookie sheet. Flatten to 2 1/2″  to 3″ patties. Bake for 7-8 minutes. Allow to cool for a few minutes, then carefully remove to a wire rack.

Optional (for chocolate lovers)
melt 4 ounces of dark chocolate. in a metal bowl over boiling water.
carefully spread the chocolate on the bottoms of the cookies. The chocolate will harden when the cookies cool completely.

How these cookies work to fight disease:
Every fruit seems to have some anti disease properties
apricots – high in  lyposene, beta-carotene A & fiber
blueberries -  rich in anthocyanins and ellagic acid vitamin c
cranberries - anti oxidants, kill cancer cells
cherries - – rich source of healthy antioxidants
-contain queritrin (which is a potent anticancer agent)
- also contain ellagic acid, which experts believe is one of the most useful compounds for    cancer prevention helping to repair damaged cells in the body
-also contains perillyl alcohol (POH), which is very effective in reducing the occurrence of all types of cancer. Stopping the spread of cancerous cells by depriving them of the crucial proteins they require in order to grow. (Cooking the berries destroys some of the antioxidant qualities)

walnuts – omega 3 fatty acids, anti oxidants – reduced breast cancer in mice

butter -  Much debated.  It might become the next big food fad.  The saturated fats in butter have strong anti-cancer properties. Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acid chains that have strong anti-tumor effects.  Butter also contains conjugated linoleic acid which gives excellent protection against cancer. Vitamin A and the anti-oxidants in butter–vitamin E, selenium and cholesterol–protect against cancer as well as heart disease.

chocolate – full of antioxidants

not so good – This recipe has 4 tablespoons of sugar much less then most recipes.  Sugar is not healthy, so if you don’t consider reducing the added sugar by half. There is natural sugar in the fruit, and too much of this is not good either.

These are the most healthy cookies ever. Don’t eat any other cookies and don’t eat too many!

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Rhonda, March 30th 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Recipes, superfoods

Add one more drug to chemo – Marijuana

Rhonda AbramsI was afraid to ask my doctor for a prescription for medical marijuana.  I thought she might lose respect for me at a time that I wanted to be taken very seriously.

In Canada, marijuana is  legal with a prescription.

I had heard that marijuana helps with the nausea from chemo.  And I had nausea for months.

I did not know that there were four recent studies that also showed that marijuana kills cancer cells and stops it from spreading.  (You will also  find many  sources that say marijuana may cause cancer). Even though marijuana has a bad reputation in our society, it does not have harmful side effects such as permanently damaging your heart or making your fingernails fall off.   Compared to all the other drugs we agree to take, why not include a natural drug that makes you less nauseous while killing cancer cells?  A drug that’s less expensive and natural.  And a  nurse doesn’t have to stick a big fat needle in your arm while you cry. (Marijuana is usually smoked). But what about the effect on your brain?  Cancer drugs effect your brain, and the effects take years to overcome.   With marijuana you will be stoned for an hour, and perhaps forget your pain and cares.

In retrospect, not promoting marijuana to cancer patients seems cruel.

Reference:  1998 study

A clip of  renowned Canadian Writer and marijuana advocate,  Pierre Burton.

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Rhonda, March 23rd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in chemo

Daily Vitamins to prevent cancer

Five years after cancer. Here’s  the supplements I take now  to prevent cancer relapse and to fight the damage to my body caused by chemo:

Vitamin B complex
Vitamin C 600 mg
Vitamin D3 3000 iu
Vitamin e  400 iu
Carlson Fish Oil 1000
Kelp 500 mg .78 mg (of iodine)
Modified Citrus Pectin by EcoNugenics Powder, 5 grams a day
Curcumin (tumeric) 500 mg
Garlic 500 mg
Boitin1000 mcg
Selenium 200mcg
Chromium 200 mcg
Calcium and magnesium 100/100 mgby
Zinc 30 mg
Quercetin 400 mcg
Coenzyme Q10 60 mg
NAC 600 mg
Green Tea EGCG max 700mg

I order mine from here

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Rhonda, March 22nd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in vitamins and supplements for fighting cancer

jim lahey’s bread – a healthier version

My healthier version of Jim Lahey's delicious bread

Jim Lahey’s bread is artisan type bread that you can easily make at home.  Crispy crust, beautiful soft texture inside. Good for sandwiches too.

Is it Healthy?
Jim’s recipes use an adaption of an ancient method that slightly  increases the healthiness of the bread, and makes it easier to digest.  The  long raising time (12 – 18 hours) gives the yeast and natural bacterias time to break down the wheat making it more digestible.  Modern kneading methods are actually forcing the gluten to save time, but the wheat is harder to digest, resulting in stress for your digestive system. Sourdough bread takes these steps even further, and is even healthier,  but I haven’t been able to master traditional sourdough…  yet.
I have adapted Jim’s recipe to increase the amount of whole grains and added a variety of seeds to the crust. Try and use organic ingredients.  Whole grains get rancid faster then white flour, so smell the flour to make sure it’s fresh.

Whole Grain Bread Recipe (my version)

1 1/2 cups organic unbleached sifted hard wheat (or organic white bread flour)
1/4 rye four
1/4 buckwheat flour
1  cup of  whole spelt or whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of instant yeast
1 1/2 cups of water

Approximately
1 cup of seeds total, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds,  flax seeds, and/ or sesame

1. Mix the flours, salt, yeast in a bowl.  Add the water and stir until all the flour is coated.  It should be a sticky dough, thicker then cake batter, but not as thick as regular bread dough.

the dough after 12 hours

2. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap.  leave for 12 to 18 hours at room temperature.  My house is between 16 – 20 Celsius, or 60 – 80 F.

3. When the dough has increased in size, and has bubbles, turn it out on the counter, and cover again for 15 minutes

The dough resting step 3.

4. Coat a clean tea towel with flour.  I rub the flour right into the tea towel.  Then sprinkle half the seeds on the towel.  Carefully place the dough on the seeds.  Shake the rest of the seeds on top of the towel.  Allow the dough to rest for 2 hours.

step 4. poppy + sunflower seeds on a tea towel coated with flour

5. After an hour, preheat the oven to 450.  Allow the dutch oven and lid to heat up for 30 minutes in the oven.

CAREFULLY remove the dish, then dump the dough in the dish cover and bake for 20 minutes.  After 20 minutes remove the lid and bake  for another 20 minutes.  The crust should be crispy and brown.  Remove and cool on a rack.

How healthy is it?

  • - Whole wheat is better for you then white flour, although whether it helps fight cancer has yet to be determined.  The slow rising time makes it more digestible.
  • Sunflower seeds-  zinc, selenium, vitamin e
  • - Buckwheat-  anti cancer, plant lignans, phytonutrients
  • - Rye -contains a type of lignan that has phytoestrogenic activity
  • - Pumpkin seeds -  zinc selenium, manganese, magnesium
  • - Poppy seeds  –   poppy seeds have oleic acid which fights  breast cancer and the linoleic acid in poppy seeds protect human body from heart attacks

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Rhonda, March 19th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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