Red Clover – Trifolium Pratense
A Rich and Useful PlantThere is no stronger association between a plant and traditional cancer remedies in the U.S. and Europe than common red clover (Trifolium pratense). Sooner or later, it...
Food and Cancer
Medicine from Common Weeds
Medicines from a Vacant Lot While exotic plants from the Amazon are beautiful to look at, some of the most promising herbs for treating cancer have always been derived from common weeds. Weeds...
Herbes de Provence Against Aging
The Extraordinary Power of Herbs God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which,...
Benefits of Boysenberries
Raspberry, Blackberry, Dewberry, Loganberry The boysenberry is a cross between the European raspberry, European blackberry, American dewberry, and loganberry. It was first developed by Charles...
Black Raspberries Help Prevent Esophageal Cancer
Antioxidants Evidence continues to accumulate that colorful fruits and vegetables (high in antioxidants) can help prevent cancer. In mid-August, scientists at Ohio State University were able to...
Flax and Breast Cancer
Flaxseed and Tamoxifen There is a similarity between flaxseed (or soy) and the drug tamoxifen, used in the treatment of premenopausal women with breast cancer. This is because: “Tamoxifen...
Nuts Against Cancer
Nut Consumption One of the most intriguing health stories of the year established a link between the consumption of tree or ground nuts and sharply lower rates of mortality from cancer,...
Pomegranate Extract and POMI-T
Pomegranate, Broccoli, Turmeric, and Green TeaScientists at the University at Albany, SUNY, showed that a pomegranate extract (PE) killed breast cancer stem cells. They concluded that pomegranate...
Indo-Mediterranean Diet Prevents Heart Disease
Dramatic Results for the Indo-Mediterranean Diet A fascinating study on diet appeared in the British medical journal Lancet in November, 2002. This study was prompted by the observation that...
“The Grape Cure”
Resveratrol: A powerful Health-Restoring Substance Red grape skins contain a substance called resveratrol. According to John Michael Pezzuto, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the...
Diet and Lifestyle – Answering the ACS
Physical Activity, Vitamins and Food ChoicesThe American Cancer Society recommends the following guidelines to prevent cancer, as well as heart disease, and other chronic diseases. We will...
NCI and CAPCAM, Macrobiotics
The Olive Branch Bears Fruit On February 28, 2002, I attended a meeting of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAPCAM), of which I am a founding member. The...
Complementary, Supportive, Palliative Care with Nutraceuticals
Promising Data on Food Supplements Some unconventional approaches may be helpful for cancer patients. This includes nutritional supplements with a track record of helping to fight cancer. Our...
Cherries – Anthocyanins, Melatonin, and Antioxidants
What’s in a Bowl of Cherries?Singer Rudy Vallee used to croon: "Life is just a bowl of cherries." I always wondered, "Why cherries? Why not plums, pears, or persimmons?" No longer. Scientists are...
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS on Diet and Nutrition
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS, is a well-known expert in the area of nutrition and cancer. He has 40 years experience as a clinical nutritionist, of which 10 years were spent as the Vice...
High Fiber Diet Boosts Immunotherapy for Cancer
A high fiber diet boosts immunotherapy for cancer. Melanoma patients had a five-fold greater chance of responding to immune checkpoint drugs when they had a diverse gut microbiome. This could...
How to Make Ralph’s Superior Seed Crackers
Fighting Cancer and T2 Diabetes One Seed Cracker at a Time There are many links between a typical high carbohydrate diet and the high rates of T2 diabetes and cancer (especially in the U.S.A.)...
The Budwig Diet and Cancer— Separating Flax from Fiction
The Budwig Diet is one of the most popular home remedies for cancer. Its most famous ingredient is a mixture of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese. It is thus sometimes also called the Oil Protein...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Food and Cancer
It's Contentious No area of research is as contentious as the relationship between food, drink or activity and the risk of cancer. Also, there are literally tens of thousands of articles in the...
Foods and Prostate Cancer
Diet and PSA - To Eat or Not to Eat We think it best to present the pertinent data on promising food supplements, which can be used as adjuncts to one’s overall approach to the management of the...
Food and Cancer Prevention
A Contentious Topic “Careful dietary manipulation may at least improve quality of life for adult cancer patients and, together with conventional therapy, may prolong survival in selected cancer...
Eggs and Cancer
Results are Scrambled Now we consider poultry egg consumption. Here the results are mixed, but favor the non-harmfulness of eggs in most types of cancer. Eggs and Brain Cancer Meta-Analysis “Our...
Fish and Cancer
Fish Oil and Seafood a Plus Total vegetarians or vegans discourage the consumption of all animal flesh, including fish. Others, such as Keith I. Block, MD, advocates “pescetarianism,” and allows...
Broccoli and Cancer
Is Broccoli Suspect?Indole-3-carbinolOne drug-nutrient interaction of relevance to cancer patients is the use of indole-3-carbinol, derived from broccoli, with erlotinib (Tarceva®), a drug used...
Soy and Breast Cancer
Soy Exhibits Anti-Estrogenic Properties Soy isoflavones consumption is associated overall with an 11% reduction in breast cancer incidence. However, the protective effect was primarily observed...
Dairy and Cancer
A Raging Controversy A raging controversy surrounds the question of whether or not milk and dairy products increase the risk of cancer. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., a retired nutritional biochemist...
Garlic
Antibiotic and Immune-Modulating Properties Garlic (Allium sativum) is a plant whose edible bulbs contain flavonoids and sulfur-containing compounds: diallyl sulfate, alliin, ajoene, and,...
Is Chocolate a Health Food?
Antioxidant? Amphetamine? Aphrodisiac? One surprising entry in the health food category is chocolate. The Aztec King Tezozomoc (1320-1426) regarded it as a divine substance and offered...
Poultry and Cancer
What does the science show? Many vegetarian authors similarly claim that any form of meat, including chicken, duck, or other poultry, is harmful to those seeking to prevent the occurrence or...
Coffee, Caffeine and Cancer
Beneficial Health Effects It used to be thought that coffee was unhealthy, and might even contribute to pancreatic, gastric, or kidney cancer. Nowadays, the pendulum has swung the other way, and...
Probiotics and Chemotherapy
Probiotics and Microbiome Diversity A randomized trial compared chemotherapy (the drug epirubicin) alone to chemotherapy plus a single probiotic, Lactobacillus casei. The three-year...
Intermittent Fasting and Breast Cancer
Win-Win at Zero CostThe subjects of an important study on intermittent fasting were 2,413 women with breast cancer, aged 27 to 70 years, who participated in the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living...
Does Beer Prevent Barrett’s Esophagus?
Bitter is Better Beer is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Consumption ranges from 2 liters (or quarts) per person per year in India to a whopping 132 liters in the Czech Republic...
Kombucha Benefits are Cloudy
A Fermented Drink I hadn’t thought about drinking kombucha tea until I saw a row of brightly colored glass bottles on a shelf in my local supermarket. For the uninitiated, kombucha is a fermented...
The Power of Honey
Pollen, Propolis and Honey "Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." Proverbs 16:24 In 1993 Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) declared that his life-long allergies...
D-Mannose: A Sweet Option in the Treatment of Cancer
Warburg EffectA remarkable paper has been published in Nature. It has been known for a century that cancer cells are unusually dependent on the common sugar, glucose (the form that carbohydrates...