By Jonathan J Roberts

One of the important things to consider when battling cancer is that there are a number of holistic and natural things that you can do to fight the disease. Many of the herbal and supplemental treatments can be used to fantastic effect. One only needs to avail them of the proper information and they will be well armed to treat the illness.

Herbs in general are a fantastic way to get nutrients that are other wise not available in foods. While foods that are high in antioxidants are a fantastic way to get the benefits and the nutrients, many of the most powerful antioxidants and photochemical are only available in obscure herbs that one would never find in their supermarket.

In addition to some of the super foods that are commonly talked about including garlic, parsley and onions, there are many other foods that you should be taking daily. Things such as almonds and berries. Peppers are also a wonderful addition to any cancer prevention diet. One should include these as well as cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflowers.

In the herbal category there are many supplements that one needs to incorporate into their diet. For starters, astragalus's and grape seed extract and amazing and helping aid in the treatment of cancerous tumors. Other herbal supplements that may be very good for you include bilberry and ginkgo biloba. These herbs are instrumental in preventing the oxidation at the cellular level.

Combining herbs and vitamin supplements with things such as fish oil and flax seed oil will be a fantastic way to improve your health. There are many additional things you may take such as coenzyme Q ten. This is one of the most important things you can supplement with. Remember to add alpha lipoic acid to your diet if you supplement with Co-Q ten.

By Carol E Patterson

Cancer cells are always present in the body and are normally kept in check by our body's own natural defense system. Do you know how the body's natural defense system works and where it gets the ammunition to do so? Do you know at what point the body succumbs to the disease named cancer?

Millions of cancer cells are present in the body from time to time. However, when the cancer cell count reaches the billions, we know the body's natural defense system is not working. Cancer cells seem go undetected as foreign cells by the body. Since cancer cells grow more quickly than normal cells they can replace healthy cells almost unnoticed by the body until we feel something is wrong, a tumor, or an organ is malfunctioning.

Cancer has occurred in your body over a long period of time due to many different forces. Outside influences such as environment, exposure to toxins, smoking, second-hand smoke, tremendous shock, and cancer-causing foods can and do cause cancer.

However, cancer can be cured. Studies have proven that a nutritious diet of anti-oxidant foods and nutrients can cure cancer. Cancer fighting foods are as close as your local grocery store shelves. All you need is the knowledge of which particular foods and the correct recipes and you will be able to cure your cancer condition naturally. In this case, knowledge is the power to heal.

A wide variety of foods makes a lifetime cancer-free diet. There is a process to learning how to make food selections and cook in a way that not only cures cancer, but prevents the disease from permeating your body. Two-time cancer survivor and author Carol Patterson has developed many wonderful tasting recipes using cancer fighting foods. Her second diagnosis of cancer prompted the doctors to suggest radical surgery. The author chose alternative cancer cures to save her body from being disfigured and horrendous exposure to chemotherapy again.

The cancer fighting foods program works and be assured that your cancer can be cured. Cancer cures are as close as the local grocery store or health food market coupled with the correct recipes and you will be able to cure yourself of cancer and to maintain a healthy body for the rest of your life. The National Cancer Institute estimates that roughly one-third of all cancer deaths may be diet related. What you eat can hurt you. On the other hand, what you eat can also help you. Knowing which foods are cancer fighting foods, and making the correct choices can save your life.

Many of the common foods found in grocery stores or organic markets contain cancer fighting anti-oxidants and can cure cancer naturally. The antioxidants neutralize damage caused by cancer-causing free radicals and change them into phytochemicals which battle cancer cells. Scientists are just beginning to explore this amazing phenomenon.

Worldwide, we are beginning to realize that the modernization of our food processing system in the last 50 years has led to almost epidemic proportions of cancer and heart disease. Not only are these foods contributing to an enormous obesity problem because of chemical ingestion, but processed foods are poisoning our bodies one day at a time. Over a period of 25-40 years, major damage has been done to our bodies by eating chemically processed foods; and the result is deadly cancer and heart disease.

The good news is that the body has extremely resilient recuperative abilities. Cells divide and regenerate daily, including cancer cells. Cancer cells are missing two essential amino acids: Linolenic Acid and Linoleic Acid. That being the case, it is very logical to realize if we feed the cancer cells the missing amino acids and nutrients, the cells will have the ability to morph and regenerate themselves into healthy cells. The concept is quite simplistic, but it works. Cancer can be cured and many people have been cured from cancer with this concept using cancer-fighting foods.

What researchers are finding is we are what we eat!

All over the world, our diet has changed from the times when we ate mainly farm-fresh foods. We go to the grocery store and buy many processed foods which have chemical preservatives and are generally not healthy for us. In many cases, these foods actually cause cancer one day at a time over a period of years.

On the other hand, there are many foods in our grocery stores which have natural antioxidants and the ability to fight off cancer as well as maintain normal body health. Once you know the correct cancer fighting foods, you can institute a natural cancer cure.

The National Cancer Institute recognizes that diet and nutrition play a big part in fighting cancer. They recommend eating at least five daily servings of fruit and vegetables as part of a low-fat, high fiber diet. Many cancer fighting foods which are high in anti-oxidants are nuts, fruits, and vegetables.

In general, in the western world, our daily diet today is out of balance. We eat too much food; we eat too much meat and fat; we eat too much sugar and salt, and our diet lacks fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. Our normal daily diets are comprised mostly of up to 45% fats. A healthy fat intake should be 30% or less of the total day's food intake.

The National Cancer Institute states that diet and nutrition are factors in 60% of cancers in women and 40% of cancers in men.

Today more and more studies are proving that we can beat cancer with the ammunition of nutritious foods and a balanced diet. John's Hopkins University in their cancer studies has a new update verifying these studies.

It has become common knowledge that nutritional food intake is essential to fighting cancer. It is not logical that the reverse could be true? The wrong foods can and do cause cancer. Not too difficult to figure out!

The National Cancer Institute and the Federal Food and Drug Administration agree that Americans should eat more fiber and reduce their fat intake. These authorities also stress that the freshness of food is an important factor.

Fresh foods straight from your own garden or the farm stand would be the best cancer fighting foods, plus they are delicious tasting! When you use fresh foods for your meals, and prepare them yourself, you know what you are eating. This is essential to a creating a cure for cancer for yourself or loved one.

There are numerous published reports documenting the healing qualities of a healthy diet. The idea of consuming fruits and vegetables while they are still in their natural state means that we preserve the natural nutrients to put into our body.

When making juice from fruits or vegetables, drink the juice within five minutes of processing to preserve the natural nutrients.

Once the principles of fresh food make sense to you, the idea of store-bought, processed food reveals itself as a large part of the problem. Learn to look at the labels on the back of food packages. The best advice is to eat food in its natural state as it comes from the grower. If you can grow your own vegetables, that is an even better solution.

You will begin to realize the more modern we have become in terms of our food process; the more we now have epidemic high levels of cancer, heart disease and obesity and increasing year after year. There is a direct correlation of processed foods and disease which scientists are proving daily.

There is something drastically wrong with this picture! People no longer have to be deathly sick with cancer. Cancer can be cured through cancer fighting foods.

Preparing your own fresh juice and food is slightly more work, but consider the alternative. Other countries such as Japan and China do not have the heart disease, obesity or the cancer problems which we have in the western world. Asian foods are mostly vegetable, nut, fruit and fish based. The health problems of heart disease, obesity, and cancer in the western world, and the food differences between our foods and Asian foods have direct correlation.

Medical and scientific resources are now stating the reason for the high spikes in illness throughout the world is because of processed foods. When you hear a food warning, one at a time on a radio show or a morning talk show, it does not have the impact as it does in written reports complied by government agencies and noted authorities.

It is very logical to see: We are what we eat!

Listed below is a chart of FDA approved fruits and vegetables. Make note on this list; there is plenty of food to eat! Making delicious and healthy cancer fighting foods from this listing is not difficult at all.

FDA CONSUMER JOURNAL'S TOP 20 FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND FISH

TOP 20 FRUITS.............................VEGETABLES...................................FISH

* Bananas.................................potatoes.........................................shrimp
* Apples.....................................lettuce.............................................cod
* Watermelon...........................tomatoes........................................Pollock
* Oranges.................................onions.............................................catfish
* Cantaloupe............................carrots.............................................scallops
* Grapes....................................celery...............................................salmon
* Grapefruit................................sweet corn......................................flounder
* Strawberries...........................broccoli............................................sole
* Peaches..................................green cabbage...............................oyster
* Pears........................................cucumbers......................................orange roughy
* Nectarines................................bell peppers....................................mackerel
* Honeydew melon....................cauliflower.......................................ocean perch
* Plums........................................leaf lettuce........................................rockfish
* Avocados..................................sweet potatoes................................whiting
* Lemons.....................................mushrooms.....................................clams
* Pineapples...............................green onions....................................haddock
* Tangerines...............................green beans.....................................blue crab
* Sweet cherries.........................radish.................................................trout
* Kiwis..........................................summer squash..............................halibut
* Limes........................................asparagus.........................................lobster

Many of the foods on both the FDA recommended list and the cancer fighting foods are the same. Take the time to cross-reference this list with the cancer fighting foods list below. You will see that many of the foods are the same. Amazing!

By changing your diet, and going back to the way we ate 30-50 years ago without processed foods in our diet, you will have the ability to make your body strong and healthy again. Processed foods are a no-no. A lifetime of processed foods can lead to cancer, heart disease, and obesity, which have all become epidemic proportion in the western world.

We have gotten away from true center in our food intake.

We eat too much, and especially eat too much of the wrong foods. If you look at the daily diet of an average teenager, think fast-forward 25-40 years from now, to the amount of illness which will strike their lives after 25-40 years of ingesting chemically processed foods. This is one of the reasons childhood obesity is at epidemic levels. These children do not have a chance for a long healthy life unless they change their eating habits and stop eating processed foods and chemicals.

We drink processed soft drinks and orange juice which are filled with high sugar content, we eat processed meat and dairy products which have high chemical content, and we cook our food to the point where we have lost the nutrition either to the water in the boil, or the flame of the cooking process.

Foods, as prepared in most Asian countries, do not have the cancer risk we have developed over time in our food processing and preparations in the western world.

CANCER FIGHTING FOODS..........

There is logic to the association of healthy foods and the relationship to a healthy body.

Listed below are foods which are cancer-fighting foods which can be used to cure cancer. These foods also happen to be foods for living a wonderfully healthy lifestyle.

* Avocados
* Broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower
* Carrots
* Chili peppers and jalapenos
* Figs
* Flax
* Garlic
* Ginger
* Grapefruits
* Grapes, red
* Green and yellow leafy vegetables
* Kale
* Licorice root
* Mushrooms
* Nuts
* Oranges and lemons
* Papayas
* Raspberries
* Red wine
* Rosemary
* Seaweed and other sea vegetables
* Sesame Seed Oil
* Soy products such as Tofu
* Sweet potatoes
* Teas: Green Tea and Black Tea
* Tomatoes
* Turmeric
* Turnips

Nature has provided a plethora of foods for us to eat and enjoy a healthy life. Have some fun creating recipes that include the cancer fighting foods in this article. Explore your grocery store in the vegetable and organic sections. There are many foods readily available at your local grocery or health food store on this list.

In the book Cure Your Self of Cancer by two-time cancer survivor Carol Patterson, you will find breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes for a 30-Day Anti-Cancer Diet consisting of cancer fighting foods which uses all of the foods mentioned in this article. This diet of cancer fighting foods can save your life. Her book shows us how to use cancer fighting foods to cure cancer. The recipes are also a delicious lifetime diet which you can use in order to maintain a healthy being for many years to come.

By Trina Claiborne

Cancer is a degenerative type disease that's on the rise in America. There are a number of reasons for this epidemic, but one of the top reasons is due to the types of food consumed in this country like processed foods. If you really want to know the truth, choice is the driving factor because there are other choices to choose from other than processed foods. Many Americans have come to believe that due to their lifestyle, they don't have the money to purchase more healthy foods or the time required to prepare them. The real truth is people can't afford 'not' to choose the more healthy foods. When you compare the medical bills and the cost of medication required to keep them alive versus the health benefits of consuming fruits and vegetables, it becomes very obvious which one cost the most.

When we talk about processed foods, the first types we think of are foods served at places like McDonalds, Wendy's, and Popeyes Chicken to name a few. Unfortunately, there are a tremendous amount of processed foods sold right in our local grocery stores. The best way to determine if they fall in the processed food category is to see them sitting on the shelves located in the center isles of the grocery store. These foods usually come in boxes, plastic container, jars and contain high level of salt and/or high fructose corn syrup to increase the shelf life of the foods. Not only does this increase profits for the store, manufacture, and distributor, but they also wreak havoc on our organs. Live foods on the other hand, such as fresh fruits and vegetables require lower temperature environment; therefore, they need refrigeration. Refrigeration requires electricity and that's why you see fresh fruits & vegetables, eggs, cheeses, yogurt, real fruit juices and meats located in the outer perimeters of the store. The frozen foods are live foods as well; therefore, you'll see them located in a designated section of the store in commercial sized freezers.

For those individuals thinking that the cost of fresh fruits and vegetables are too much for their budget; there are ways to extend the life of the produce. Today's technology has created storage gadgets that slow down the release of the ethylene gases naturally released by the produce during the ripening process. Some of these gadgets come in the form of bags or plastic containers with lids, and can be purchased at your local grocery store, online, Wal-Mart or just about anywhere these days. As for time, preparation is the key. There are a number of things we can do to decrease the time required to prepare the food for consumption such as: pre-cutting for portion size, washing and drying the produce before placing in the refrigerator and the best one is to take a day out of the week and pre-cook your food. Pre-cooking will allow you to make your plate just as you would before eating lunch or dinner using a sectioned Tupperware container and then place it in the freezer. Before you go off to work, just put it in your lunch bag and pop it in the microwave when you're ready to eat.

Since cancer is the second leading cause of death in America, and knowing that consuming fresh fruits and vegetables have the ability to fight cancer; it would be a great idea to understand how each food type contribute to fighting cancer. Starting with fruits, they are packed with vitamin C, antioxidants that fight against free radicals which are precursors to cancer and some fruits even have the ability to inhibit enzymes that activate carcinogens. The best fruits with these qualities are: apples, oranges, red grapes, blueberries, grapefruit, strawberries, cantaloupe, lemons, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, and cherries just to name a few.

Nuts and seeds are great cancer fighters. Some seeds include: fenugreek seeds, flax seeds, grape seeds, and poppy seeds. These and many other types of seed contain enzymes that help inhibit the development of various forms of cancer. Nuts such as black walnuts contain ellagic acids and almonds contain oleic acids which are cancer fighting properties. Other nuts that contribute to fighting cancer when consumed in moderation are: Brazil nuts, hazel nuts, macadamia nuts, pistachio nuts and peanuts.

Fresh vegetables are great cancer fighters and provide fiber to keep our colon cleansed. The more colorful the vegetable the better they fight cancer, but over cooked vegetables destroys the cancer fighting properties. The best way to consume vegetables is to eat them raw, but some vegetables are better for us when cooked, and the best cooking methods are steaming or light grilling. For people that don't really like vegetables, pureeing them in an emulsifier and adding your favorite fruit like apples can allow the vegetables to become a drink. The best cancer fighting vegetables are: Bitter Melon due to its content of MAP-30, Spinach & Kale by preventing the formation of Nitrosamines due to its Carotenoids and Histidine content, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage and Cauliflower due to the Isothiocyanates they contain, Broccoli due to its Indole-3- Carbinol and Sulforaphane content, Rhubarb due to the Rhein content, Eggplant due to the Protease inhibitors used to counteract many carcinogens, Tomatoes due to its Lycopene content, and Turnips due to their Glucosinolates content.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are always good choices to keep the body healthy. The best place to get fresh fruit and vegetable would be your local organic farmer. Buying direct from the farmer not only ensure your purchase is fresh, but it also help support the farmers in your own community. One can easily find a farmer in their community by checking the listing at: www.LocalHarvest.org. The second best place to purchase fruits and vegetables is the local farmers market. The farmer's market usually obtains their foods from the local farmers as well to prevent having the foods delivered from other states to ensure freshness. The most common place people purchase their produce is the local grocery store due to convenience.