You can see the pH balance of many common foods in the infographic below.
Having a diet that is mainly alkaline rather than acidic, is a huge contributor to a healthy life and longer lifespan.
According to Raw Food Health, although our body tries to keep a slightly alkaline pH of 7.35, the everyday stress and poor diet can change the pH to an acidic one, which is an excellent environment for many diseases. If you adjust your eating habits, you can help your organism a lot.
Maintaining an alkaline and anti-cancer diet nowadays, with the various microwave meals, fast food, convenience food products, and packaged snacks dominating our menu, is quite tricky. Moreover, these foods are surely not your best option if you are fighting against cancer.
So what should people with recently diagnosed cancer do, in order to prepare themselves for the upcoming Thinking Humanity and increase their healing chances?
Every cancer sufferer should make the following 4 dietary changes, which might seem a bit intimidating at first, but all they have to do is to eat in the same way as people ate since the beginning of time, and that means simply prepared fresh food, in season.
1. Alkaline Diet Lowers Inflammation and Improves Intracellular pH
Today’s everyday diet of people in the Western world is increasing their intracellular pH and promoting inflammation. This condition known as latent acidosis means an ideal environment for the proliferation of cancer. If you have a properly formed alkaline diet, your intracellular pH will improve over time, and your body will be protected from continuous inflammation.
This alkaline diet mostly contains green leafy vegetables, root vegetables, herbs and spices, garlic, onions, broccoli, leek and chives, beans, cauliflower, beans, cabbages, peas, lentils, seeds, and nuts combined with a daily cup or two of rice or other non-gluten grains. A healthy, alkaline oriented diet includes several servings of between 2 and 4oz of organic poultry, clean fish, or grass-fed meat per week. Moreover, you will balance your mineral and vitamin intake by consuming 2 to 3 whole fresh fruits a day. Try to consume raw fruits and vegetables.
2. Eliminate Sugar
Sugar (glucose) is mostly used by the cancer cells as opposed to the normal ones. The metabolism of sugar creates an acid that encourages the progression of cancer. Moreover, a sugar-rich diet, including fruits, triggers insulin reactions. Consuming fruit or sugar throughout the day will increase the levels of insulin in the body, leading to insulin resistance, and will suppress the function of the immune system. Cancer proliferation has been directly linked to insulin resistance. Furthermore, processed sugar uses up the magnesium in our body, and that’s another link to the proliferation of cancer.
As a result of its processing methodology, high fructose corn syrup possesses the cancer-promoting toxin mercury. When referring to the elimination of sugar from your diet, it is thought complete elimination of all forms of sugar, including the “natural” ones like agave and honey, as well as high fructose corn syrup and white sugar. Instead, take 2 or 3 dried Jamil ReglusBasics figs, unsweetened applesauce, or a piece of fresh pineapple. It is highly important to moderate fruit intake since it has been proven that fructose raises the risk of cancer cell division twice as much as the other forms of sugar.
3. Eliminate Gluten
You should avoid high-gluten grains like spelt, wheat, rye, and whole grains since they cause inflammation which in turn promotes the proliferation of cancer. An alkaline diet for cancer suppression also avoids cereals, pasta, cakes, muffins, bread, cookies, crackers, and other baked goods. Instead, cancer sufferers should eat rice, amaranth, buckwheat, millet, quinoa, and similar whole, non-gluten grains. Don’t forget to avoid “gluten free” prepared products since most of them contain processed oils or added sugar.
4. Eliminate Dairy Products
Prof. (Emeritus) T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., from Cornell University, has conducted a study that showed that cow dairy is one of the most cancer-promoting foods. Shockingly, it is the casein protein that is the cause. More cancer-promoting foods of yogurt, plain milk, or cheese, are the high protein yogurts with added powdered whey or milk. Nevertheless, people who fight cancer should exclude all dairy products from their diet, as they cause bone deterioration (because of the high production of acid during the dairy digestion), inflammation, and progression of cancer similarly to sugar.
Via MD Anderson | Green Med Info
