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"Consider a macrobiotic diet. Some cancer patients find that a macrobiotic diet—which consists of cooked whole grains, vegetables, beans, seaweed, and small amounts of fish—is easier to stomach than a standard diet when undergoing cancer treatment. This may sound foreign to you, but when faced with the serious malnutrition that often accompanies cancer, you may find this a real boon, as others have. For more information, see Michio Kushi's books: The Cancer Prevention Diet (St. Martins Griffin, 1994) and The Macrobiotic Way (Avery, 2004). • Multivitamin." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Acupuncturists I know will think I am a heretic for preaching a raw food diet since Chinese medicine advocates the macrobiotic diet, a diet of whole foods, most of which are cooked, especially when a patient has what is termed a "cold" condition. My former partner in an acupuncture business asked me in fact how I could promote a diet that went against the ancient Chinese tradition. I pointed out what one of our teachers once said. He had asked a Chinese acupuncturist master why they had the liver pulse on the left hand when the liver organ is located on the right side of the body. " - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "She became bedridden for six months as she tried 40-odd different alternative remedies, including the macrobiotic diet and supplements. She then discovered Natural Hygiene via Seventh Day Adventist books and used live fruit juices, vegetable juices and wheatgrass, along with other supportive lifestyle practices. The tumor disappeared in eight months. She regained full health after another ten months. Dr. Day now promotes a living foods diet. She has made over a dozen videos, including Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore and Drugs Never Cure Disease." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The American Cancer Society says it has found no evidence that macrobiotic diet is useful as a cure for cancer in humans and strongly urges cancer patients to avoid dietary programs as the sole treatment for cancer. [CA Cancer Journal Clinicians 43:309-19, 1993] This is an odd statement because the National Cancer Institute backed a dietary regimen of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables. It is surprising that the American Cancer Society has not conducted any research to determine the effectiveness of the macrobiotic diet." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "A report in the Journal of Nutrition indicates a macrobiotic diet lowers estrogen levels in females which may be beneficial in reducing the risk for breast cancer, and that overall, "on the basis of available evidence and its similarity to dietary recommendations for chronic disease prevention, the macrobiotic diet probably carries a reduced cancer risk." [Journal Nutrition 131: 3056-64S, 2001] Bloodroot Oxygen therapies An Associated Press news story cited a South Georgia preacher for practicing medicine without a license." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Consider a macrobiotic diet. Some cancer patients find that a macrobiotic diet—which consists of cooked whole grains, vegetables, beans, seaweed, and small amounts of fish—is easier to stomach than a standard diet when undergoing cancer treatment. This may sound foreign to you, but when faced with the serious malnutrition that often accompanies cancer, you may find this a real boon, as others have. For more information, see Michio Kushi's books: The Cancer Prevention Diet (St. Martins Griffin, 1994) and The Macrobiotic Way (Avery, 2004). ?Multivitamin." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"He embarked on a strict macrobiotic diet and programme of cycling and swimming. He also founded, with seven others, the self-help group Body Positive. Stewart was just trying to make sense of his life before it was gone. All he knew was that he wanted as little medical interference as possible and that there must be some upside to his situation, that his life should not pass by in vain. 'When you look in the mirror and see marks all over your body it is hard to feel good about yourself,' he said. 'But I have learned that the whole key to feeling in control is how you feel about yourself." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"The macrobiotic diet... 120 Bloodroot... 121 Oxygen therapies... 121 Rife therapy... 122 Shark cartilage ... 122 A story... 123 Conventional vs. Alternative Cancer Therapy ... 123 Alternatives Alternative cures for cancer The primary theme of this chapter is that alternative remedies for cancer, many spawned in past eras on nothing more than a hunch that they would work, need to be abandoned in favor of more promising alternatives that are now backed by hard science." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"My clients and I began to eat cabbage, cruciferous vegetables of all shapes and sizes, daikon radishes, and an array of seaweeds such as kombu and hijiki, crucial parts of the macrobiotic diet. The sea vegetables in the diet contained a uniquely broad spectrum of nutrients that were many times greater than those of land vegetables. We followed many macrobiotic-suggested menus, and I even gave the nod to a certain amount of sprouted cooked brown rice, a food that seemed to round out the entire program." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.) "From all I had seen so far, it seemed that the macrobiotic diet was helping to do just that. I thought back to what I had learned from Dr. West about the importance of the lymphatic system. I remembered his brilliant teaching about blood proteins and fluid escaping from inside the cells. When these fluids escaped, it would cause excess fluid and sodium to become trapped around the cells. This could cause an imbalance between the potassium and sodium inside the cell. As Dr. West stated, "Anything that will upset the sodium-potassium balance can damage or kill the cell." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"The standard macrobiotic diet recommended by Michio Kushi suggests that every meal consist of cooked grains, as 50 percent of the volume of the meal; soup, preferably miso, as 5 percent; vegetables, with two-thirds cooked and one-third raw, 20-30 percent; and cooked beans and seaweed, 10-15 percent.4 The macrobiotic diet emphasizes the 50/50 balancing of the yin/yang energies of food. This diet is complex and requires some training in order to master the system and to cook the foods properly." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"Kushi's classic macrobiotic diet is meatless, low-fat, high-grain, high-vegetable. Prohibited or severely restricted: table salt, yeast, refined sugar, meat, dairy foods, eggs, poultry, tomatoes, most fats and oils, processed foods, and alcoholic beverages. Occasionally allowed: white fish, fruits, lightly roasted seeds and nuts. Percentage of fat is between 10 and 13 percent. Such a rigid macrobiotic diet is difficult for Americans to adhere to and may not even be the best for some cancer patients; many doctors favor less restrictive "modified" macrobiotic diets." - Jean Carper, Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies (Get the book.)

"A small research study published in 1993 done at the Tulane School of Public Health showed that the adoption of a macrobiotic diet slowed the progression of prostate cancer in nine men. Of the eighteen men studied, the ones who had adopted the macrobiotic diet lived longer after diagnosis and maintained a better quality of life. This same study compared twenty-three people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer who followed a macrobiotic diet after diagnosis with twenty-three patients with pancreatic cancer who didn't elect to make any dietary changes." - Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D., Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding Phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health (Get the book.)

"Three of the therapies that fall into this category are wheatgrass therapy, a diet based on wheatgrass and other raw foods; the macrobiotic diet, a traditional Japanese diet high in whole grains and vegetables; and the Moerman regimen, a meatless high-fiber diet that includes nutritional supplements. Choosing an Alternative Therapy Unless you already have a specific therapy in mind, the first step in choosing one is to learn more about those that are available." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Try following a macrobiotic diet. Q Get regular physical activity. Active men maintain better health and have lower risk of developing prostate cancer. Q Enjoy regular sexual activity. Regular ejaculation activates the prostate gland, keeping it from getting stagnant and inflamed. Q Do not take any drugs except those that are prescribed by your physician. Always seek counsel and alternative opinions before deciding which treatments, if any, you will pursue. Considerations Q Diet and nutrition are important not only for treatment, but for prevention." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"As you can see, the macrobiotic diet does not consist of nothing but brown rice and herb tea. Yukikazu Sakura-zawa, who wrote under the name of George Ohsawa, outlined ten different dietary levels, one of which consisted of brown rice, other cereals, and herb tea, but that is not considered to be the "main" macrobiotic diet.") Many of the ingredients in the macrobiotic diet, including shiitake mushrooms, seaweed, and kombu, have been shown to have anti-cancer properties." - Larry Clapp, Prostate Health in 90 Days (Get the book.)

"Considerations Q Many people with cancer have achieved good results with a macrobiotic diet. Q German physician and cancer specialist Dr. Hans Nieper used fresh raw cabbage and carrot juice with excellent results. Dr. Nieper also used Carnivora, a substance derived from a South American plant, to fight cancer. Q New York-based immunologist Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez has developed a cancer treatment regimen under study by the National Institutes of Health that incorporates changes in diet, nutritional supplementation, and toxin-removal systems, including coffee enemas." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"All the reputable health pioneers, no matter their particular systems, were talking about the earth's wholeness and the avoidance of processed and altered foods and drugs. The macrobiotic diet emphasized eating grains only in their whole form, and was extremely supportive of eating cooked brown rice. White rice, pastas, cereals, and breads were prohibited, considered to be denatured and destroyed, along with all other grains that had been polished, bleached, or starched." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Whole grains, such as brown rice, barley, millet, oats, corn, and rye, make up the bulk of the macrobiotic diet. The diet also emphasizes the consumption of vegetables, especially cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, bok choy, col-lards, and mustard greens. Beans, tofu, and sea vegetables should be eaten on a daily basis, and a few servings each week of nuts, seeds, and fresh fish, such as halibut, flounder, cod, or sole, are permissible. All foods should be organically grown, and, ideally, only fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables should be eaten." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"The word macrobiotic means "long life," and the macrobiotic diet is based on grains, vegetables, and beans, which are balanced in certain ways using principles derived from Chinese medicine. Modern macrobiotic diets draw heavily on the traditional Asian foods, with generous amounts of rice and vegetables, and strictly avoid dairy products, meats, and sugary and refined foods. Tony could find no double-blind studies to show what the diet could do, but he was driven by a mixture of curiosity and desperation. He shared meals at the center, and the staff gave him food to take home." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief (Get the book.)

"While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets: The Atkins diet The Blood Type Diet The Ornish diet The macrobiotic diet The vegetarian diet The Zone diet We will discuss the background, rationale and principles, and scientific validity of each diet along with our own recommendations. The Atkins Diet The Atkins diet is perhaps the most famous weight loss diet of all time. It is a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet developed by Robert Atkins, M.D., during the 1960s." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.) "Nonetheless, the macrobiotic diet is a health-promoting diet that clinical research has shown it to be beneficial for people with cancer and cardiovascular disease. Vegetarian Diet The vegetarian diet is defined as one avoiding all animal flesh, including fish and poultry. Vegetarians who avoid flesh but do eat animal products, such as cheese, milk, and eggs, are ovo-lacto-vegetarians (ovo = egg; lacto = milk and cheese). Those who eschew all animal products are referred to as pure vegetarians or vegans." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Department of Nutrition at Tulane University, conducted a controlled study of the macrobiotic diet in prostate cancer. He found that men who made the shift to macrobiotics lived, on average, three years longer than those who did not. Even more remarkably, a 1994 study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition found that the median survival time for men with prostate cancer who received aggressive treatment was six years; the median survival time for men with prostate cancer who went on a macrobiotic diet was 19 years." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

"Prior to my sickness, I was following a macrobiotic diet. I was starting to use Oriental and alternative medicine, and I knew of the power of the body to heal itself. I decided to keep on my macrobiotic diet, and was able to, more or less, clean myself of the chemotherapy. During this time I did not even get a cold. I didn't sneeze through all my sickness. I was clean, but my blood counts were still very low. I needed a transfusion every ten days. On one hand, the transfusions were very helpfid, and I was grateful to be able to get them." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"High doses GLA believed to improve immune system and prevent weight loss. macrobiotic diet. A retired English doctor had cancer of the pancreas, inoperable, the size of a cricket ball, for which conventional treatment could do nothing. Regression being almost impossible, he would die within a few months. In the meantime he was advised to try the macrobiotic diet comprising wholefoods, compost grown vegetables, vegetable oils and natural drinks such as carrot juice and herbal teas." - Thomas Bartram, Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Guide (Get the book.)

"Keep in mind that you may have to "fine tune" this diet to suit your ethnic background. The macrobiotic diet was developed by a Japanese physician who cured himself of cancer in the 19th century. The macrobiotic diet tends to encourage anything Oriental (even soy sauce and pickles) and discourage anything Western, including chicken, turkey, fish and fruit. Macrobiotics may be ideally suited for many Orientals, and has helped some Caucasians because it is such a vast improvement over the nutritional quality of the typical American diet." - Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Kushi does not claim that a macrobiotic diet cures cancer, but rather that it is part of a way of life that can prevent much disease, including many cases of cancer. And yet there have been repeated reports from both physicians and patients of cures that have occurred when people with cancer have switched from the typical American diet to a macrobiotic diet. One of the most credible of these reports came from Anthony Sattilaro, M.D., chief executive of Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia, and formerly chairman of the anesthesiology department." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

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