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Passionate nutrition
Revitalize Your Life
Healthy Eating After Breast
Cancer
Jennifer Adler M.S., C.N.
Diseases are a Multifactoral
Condition
• It is important to create an internal
environment that is nourishing on all levels
• Positive mental attitude- attitude, stress,
personality and emotional state
• Health promoting lifestyle
• Nutrient rich diet
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Healing Power of Food
• No one can predict exactly who will
recover and there is no guaranteed cure
but it is possible to increase your odds of
survival, help prevent recurrence and have
a higher quality of life by taking advantage
of the healing power of food.
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Yes, FOOD
• Yes I do mean food. For example a
compound called ellagic acid is one of the
most potent cancer fighters in nature. If
you have cancer cells anywhere in your
body ellagic acid helps your immune
system destroy them and shuts off their
ability to multiply.
• There’s just one thing. Ellagic acid cannot
be absorbed by the bloodstream very well
so it does little good to take it in a pill form.
You have to eat the foods that have it,
such as strawberries and raspberries.
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Diet & Cancer
• Poor diet is a major cause of cancer in the
US
• It lacks nutrients the body needs to
maintain healthy cells & tissues
• A poor diet means the immune system
doesn’t have what it needs to defend itself
against invaders that can trigger the onset
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of cancer
Optimal Nutrition
• The importance of optimum nutrition when
dealing with cancer and to help prevent
recurrence cannot be emphasized enough.
• Cancer patients who have higher
nutritional status are more likely to fight off
infection, recover from cancer & help
prevent recurrence.
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Immune System
• The immune system is one of your body’s
most important defenses against cancer
• Cells of the immune system circulate
throughout the body, alert for the presence
of anything abnormal.
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Duties
• If abnormal cells are detected immune
cells signal one another to eliminate it from
the body.
• The presence of cancer can be a sign that
the immune system is doing the best it can
but is not functioning well and hasn’t been
able to fully perform its duties.
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Enhance Immune Function
• One of the key principles in the natural
prevention and treatment of cancer is to
enhance immune function by:
• Reducing free-radical formation in the body
• Limit exposure to dietary and
environmental sources of free radicals
• Increase your intake of antioxidant
nutrients and other substances that
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Critical Nutrients for Immune
System
• Selenium Why take expensive supplements? Enjoy just one Brazil
nut each day and ensure your selenium levels remain OK
• Germanium broccoli, celery, garlic, shiitake mushrooms, milk,
onions, rhubarb, sauerkraut, tomato juice, chlorella, all chlorophyll rich foods
• Trace minerals
• Antioxidant vitamins A, C and E
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Nourish & Strengthen the Immune
System
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Beets
Carrots
Garlic
Green tea
Wild mushrooms
Seaweed
Dark leafy greens
Stinging nettle
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Protein
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Protein is essential for recovery
Maintains muscle mass
Nourishes the lining of the GI
Boosts blood counts
Heals tissue
Boosts the immune system
Conventional therapy can increases
protein needs by up to 50%
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How do fruits & vegetables help
prevent cancer?
• Concentrated amounts of antioioxidants,
carotenes, folates, selenium, indol-3
carbinol, and other anti-cancer
phytochemicals and nutrients in a
synergistic combination impossible to
duplicate in a pill.
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Eat a Rainbow Everyday
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Eat some from each category, daily
Raw, ones rich in the antioxidant vitamin C
Oily, such as avocado for vitamin E
Green, yellow & orange for antioxidant carotenes, which
become vitamin A in the liver
• Dark leafy Greens such as chard, kale, mustard greens,
collard greens & spinach for folate
• Garlic for selenium the mineral that lowers breast cancer
• Cabbage family for indol-3 carbinol, to reduce estrogen
related and age-related breast cancer
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Beans
• Legumes can decrease breast cancer risk.
• They contain enzymes which reduce the
production of estradiol and plant hormones
which help keep estradiol out of breast
cells.
• The more estradiol in your body the
greater your benefit from eating legumes,
especially if you are premenopausal or
taking estrogen replacement hormones.
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Red Meat
• Women who eat red meat at lest 1x a day
have 2 x the likelyhood of developing
breast cancer as women who eat fish,
poultry and dairy products daily.
• However with a calorie balanced diet
(where intake balances requirements)
there is a lower risk of breast cancer
whether they include meat or not.
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Fiber
• A Canadian study found that women
whose diets were high in fiber had 30%
less breast cancer than those with fiberpoor diets.
• Whole grains, beans, fruits & vegetables
supply fiber.
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Eat a Rainbow Everyday
• A diet rich in fruits and vegetables is your
best bet for preventing cancer
• Strong evidence to support this
• Choose different colored vegetables &
fruits: red, orange, yellow, green, blue &
purple- the full spectrum of cancer fighting
compounds as well as nutrients needed for
optimal function and protection from
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disease
SAD
• If French fries, potato chips and the lettuce
and tomatoes from hamburgers are taken
out of the equation, less than half of all
Americans actually consume even a single
serving of a vegetable or fruit in a day!
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Tips for Eating a Rainbow
• With each meal and snack include at least
3 different colored foods
• Buy different kinds of vegetables and fruits
so you have a selection
• Keep frozen vegetables and fruits on hand
• Use vegetables and fruits that go bad
easily first and save hardier varieties for
later in the week
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More Tips
• Keep vegetables and fruits where you can
see them
• Keep a bowl of cut up vegetables on the
top shelf of the refrigerator
• Keep a fruit bowl on your kitchen counter
• Always carry cut up vegetables & fruit in
your purse or briefcase
• Buy washed & cut vegetables that are
ready to eat or cook
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Fat is Controversial
• Although women in most countries where
fat intake is high do have a greater
incidence of breast cancer, women in
countries where the diet is high-fat but
even-caloried, meaning the total calories
do not exceed needs and a healthy weight
is easily maintained, have very low rated of
breast cancer.
• For example women of Crete get 60% of
their calories from fat, yet have the lowest
incidence of breast cancer in the world.
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Fat
• Olive oil & butter from organic sources can
reduce the risk of breast cancer.
• They contain phytochemicals that stop the
initiation and promotion of breast cancer.
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Low fat = Low protein
• Typically restricts protein foods from
animal sources because of saturated fats
• Protein deficiency can lead to symptoms
like weakness, fatigue, dry & brittle hair &
nails, slow wound healing, chronic
infections, sugar handling issues, difficulty
losing weight & poor muscle tone
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Problem Fats
• Linoleic acid found in nuts, corn oil and
most margarines speeds up both te rate of
growth of breast cancers and the and the
rate of metastases in mice when fed levels
ranging from 8-50 % of total daily fat.
• It’s all about balance
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Fats
• Use organic fats, especially olive oil,
butter and goats milk cheese.
• Health benefits of switching from a low fat
to a healthy fat diet are numerous.
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Water
• Low water consumption increases the risk
for cancers of the breast, colon and urinary
tract
• Water is essential for life
• The average amount of water in our body
is 10 gallons.
• We need to drink at least 48 oz per day to
replace the water lost through urination,
sweat and breathing
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Dehydration
• Even mild dehydration impairs our body’s
functions and performance
• Many nutrients need water to be dissolved
• Numerous metabolic processes need to
take place in water
• Water is needed to eliminate toxins from
our body especially if undergoing
chemotherapy
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Reduce Exposure to Pesticides
• In the US more than 1.2 billion pounds of
pesticides and herbicides are sprayed or
added to food crops each year.
• This equals about 5 pounds of pesticides
for each person in the US.
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Avoiding Pesticides
• Buy high quality foods that concentrate
pesticides such as animal fat, meat, eggs,
and dairy products
• Buy organic produce, which is grown
without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers
• Buy local produce, in season
• Peel off the skin or remove the outer
leaves to reduce pesticide levels
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Pesticides
• The possible presence of pesticides in
fruits and vegetables should not be a deter
you from eating a diet high in these foods.
The concentrations in fruits and vegetables
are much lower than levels found in animal
foods. Also the antioxidants, vitamins and
minerals are necessary to help your body
deal with pesticides.
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Good News
• An abundance of (5 servings a day) of
cooked, canned, frozen, dried and raw
fruits & vegetables in the diet can lower
breast cancer risk by 46%!
• Members of the cabbage family- including
broccoli, kale, turnips, radishes, cabbage
and cauliflower do even more.
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Detoxification
• Many fresh vegetables & fruits contain
glutathione, an important antioxidant found
in all tissues in the body
• Glutathione is an important anticancer
agent that helps detoxify and eliminate
toxins such as heavy metals, pesticides
and solvents
• Our body absorbs glutathione from foods,
but absorbs very little when taken as a
supplement.
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Glutathione
• The combination of detoxification and freeradical protection makes it one of the most
important cancer fighters in our cells.
• The greater your exposure to toxins, the
faster your body uses up its supply of
glutathione
• Without the protection of glutothione cells
die at a faster rate, accelerating aging and
increasing risk of toxin induced diseases
including cancer
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Promoting Elimination
• There is a strong correlation between
breast & colon cancer and chronic
constipation
• A bowel transit time of greater than 48
hours can lead to carcinogens produced by
bacteria and toxic buildup
• The intestines contain 70-80% of our
immune cells
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Preventing Breast Cancer
Recurrence
• Foods that help prevent cancer help prevent recurrence
too.
• Apples
• Burdock
• Carrots
• Dark green leafy vegetables
• Dried beans
• Garlic
• Kelp
• Sweet potatoes
• Wild mushrooms
• Turmeric
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90%
• It isn’t necessary to have a perfect diet to
get cancer fighting benefits.
• Choose healthy foods 90% of the time and
you will still benefit without feeling
deprived.
• Even small changes improve your health
and resistance to illness.
• Focus on including more healthy choices.
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Rewards
• Making wise choices will not only reduce
your cancer risk, it will improve your overall
health.
• The increased sense of energy and wellbeing that comes from a healthy diet and
lifestyle become an equally great reward.
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