Top alkaline plant foods for cancer

When you have cancer, you don’t want to feed cancer cells, do you? Changing your diet to at least 80% alkaline foods will help starve cancer cells and give you plenty of energy.

Alkaline diets are all the rage these days, but I can’t stress enough how important an alkaline diet is to people with cancer. Personally, I’d like to be called simply the plant-based diet, as I can’t stand fad diets! As soon as I knew that my regular healthy diet was feeding my cancer tumor, I was blown away and immediately eliminated most of the acidic foods from my diet.

How do acidic foods feed cancer?

The American Institute for Cancer Research advocates a plant-based diet for cancer patients. Alkaline foods are predominantly vegetables: vegetables and some fruits. Lemons are included as they’re treated as alkaline within the gastrointestinal system.

who dedicated his life to cancer cell research, won a Nobel Prize for showing that cancer cells cannot survive in an alkaline environment

The goal of increasing ALKALINE FOOD in your diet is to reduce inflammation and remove the nutrients that cancer cells thrive on and really love glucose!

Here are my 10 favorite alkaline/vegetable foods to increase your eating plans

• Spinach
• kale
• Chard
• Bananas
• Cauliflower
• Cherries
• Sweet potato
• Celery
• Carrots
• Eggplant

To be clear, the main culprits of the acidic list that are best eliminated or reduced are:

• Red meat
• White meat
• Fish
• Sugar
• Glucose syrup
• Dairy products
• Wheat
• Potato
• Fructose corn syrup
• Alcohol

Yes, all of these thoughts were mine for about an hour after completing my research (I knew my nutrition diploma would come in handy!). I felt very depressed. I loved the barbecues, the red wine, the cheddar cheese, and the occasional pie. My partner paled in front of me when I told him about my lifestyle plan. We had just moved to a warmer climate the year before my cancer diagnosis and had been living the good life with a little wine for dinner and too much bread. It was a challenge to change. But I did it, immediately. The results were amazing.

I immediately started to lose weight, after 3 months I had lost 2 kilos. I had been trying for a good few years to exercise to get back to my thirty-five years of the weight of 8.5 kilos. Diet change: weight loss took me only 3 months! I felt fantastic and lost weight, even during the bout of chemotherapy steroids!

During half of this weight loss, I had my partial mastectomy, and drains were used to drain my removed lymph nodes. In all my checkups with my surgeon he told me it was a miracle, I couldn’t believe that I didn’t need to drain on any of my checkups, which for him was standard practice.

• My scar healed quickly and is fading fast, again my surgeon was impressed.
• I had more energy at 42 during my cancer treatment than at 32.
• My blood recovered to good levels during chemotherapy, so I did not have to pause the treatment at any time.

I had no side effects from the Paclitaxel chemotherapy, except that all my hair was gone. (I’m still nauseous with FEC – boo!) I also fasted during chemotherapy – more on that in another post!

• I had no chemo brain of any note, no more than in the last few years anyway 
• I have been a year since the diagnosis and I feel great.
• Extra bonus after reducing acidic food

Eliminating most acidic foods from your diet will also help with these other conditions:

• Low energy
• Exhaustion
• Confusion
• Anxiety and depression
• Eczema
• Frequent headaches
• Frequent colds
• Joint pain
• Muscular weakness
• Swelling

If you think you will have a hard time adapting your diet, the way you want, I can help you with some great motivational techniques, tips, and tools. It mostly requires a mindset shift and some powerful willpower techniques – that’s what CBT is great at. and let’s get started with this.