There's been a lot of information tossed around lately about vegetarian diets, raw food diets and juicing in relation to cancer treatments and cancer prevention. Not only are there a considerable number of legitimate concerns about how to effectively incorporate juicing into our diets, but precise information about what to juice and when to juice is difficult to come by in relation to cancer therapies.
Does drinking raw fruit and vegetable juice actually cure cancer? There is no absolute evidence but there is data that shows strong indications that juicing greatly benefits cancer patients in treatment. For example, there is no doubt among doctors and researchers that vitamin A has a remarkable ability to inhibit the introduction of malignant tumors and retards the growth of both malignant and benign tumors. Carrots are full of vitamin A. Eating several pounds of carrots daily will fill your stomach with lots of fiber but that fiber will also prevent you from eating other foods that you need in your diet because you simply wouldn't be hungry enough to do so. Here's where the benefit of juicing comes in -- drinking the juice of a pound of carrots is very easy, it tastes great and floods your body with tons of vitamin A, alpha- and beta-carotene and lycopene -- all good stuff. Pretty much everyone can drink three glasses of fresh carrot juice a day.
There are other factors at work as well. If you are a cancer patient, juicing raw fruits and vegetables will improve your general health and will give your immune system the foods it needs to work better. Cancer patients that convert to a healthier diet have a better chance at beating cancer, feel better overall and require less chemotherapy.
All the above applies only to raw, freshly made juices. Canned or bottled juices have greatly reduced nutritional value because they have been cooked. Cooking destroys vitamin C and other nutrients. Carrot, tomato and fruit juices in general have a high sugar concentration so diabetics need to monitor carefully to see which juices spike their sugar. Some diabetes will spike on tomato juice and others will not. If you are diabetic, be aware and be careful to monitor your blood sugar when juicing.
Carrot juice is a great basic juice and you can't beat it for taste. Other foods that have cancer-fighting properties are fresh ginger, apples, parsley, beets and tomatoes.
One notable exception is 1/2 cup of tomato paste combined with a cup and a half of broccoli daily for men over 55 with slow growing prostate cancer. This combination has been shown to effectively reduce prostate tumors. The active ingredient in broccoli is sulforaphane. Even more effective than tomato paste was dehydrated tomatoes which contain a higher amount of FruHis, an organic carbohydrate. The tomato paste or dehydrated tomatoes and broccoli could easily be included in one's daily juicing.
So if it is said that juicing has no effect on cancer recovery, rest assured that juicing and/or supplementation with specific foods certainly does have a positive effect on cancer and its treatment.
Does drinking raw fruit and vegetable juice actually cure cancer? There is no absolute evidence but there is data that shows strong indications that juicing greatly benefits cancer patients in treatment. For example, there is no doubt among doctors and researchers that vitamin A has a remarkable ability to inhibit the introduction of malignant tumors and retards the growth of both malignant and benign tumors. Carrots are full of vitamin A. Eating several pounds of carrots daily will fill your stomach with lots of fiber but that fiber will also prevent you from eating other foods that you need in your diet because you simply wouldn't be hungry enough to do so. Here's where the benefit of juicing comes in -- drinking the juice of a pound of carrots is very easy, it tastes great and floods your body with tons of vitamin A, alpha- and beta-carotene and lycopene -- all good stuff. Pretty much everyone can drink three glasses of fresh carrot juice a day.
There are other factors at work as well. If you are a cancer patient, juicing raw fruits and vegetables will improve your general health and will give your immune system the foods it needs to work better. Cancer patients that convert to a healthier diet have a better chance at beating cancer, feel better overall and require less chemotherapy.
All the above applies only to raw, freshly made juices. Canned or bottled juices have greatly reduced nutritional value because they have been cooked. Cooking destroys vitamin C and other nutrients. Carrot, tomato and fruit juices in general have a high sugar concentration so diabetics need to monitor carefully to see which juices spike their sugar. Some diabetes will spike on tomato juice and others will not. If you are diabetic, be aware and be careful to monitor your blood sugar when juicing.
Carrot juice is a great basic juice and you can't beat it for taste. Other foods that have cancer-fighting properties are fresh ginger, apples, parsley, beets and tomatoes.
One notable exception is 1/2 cup of tomato paste combined with a cup and a half of broccoli daily for men over 55 with slow growing prostate cancer. This combination has been shown to effectively reduce prostate tumors. The active ingredient in broccoli is sulforaphane. Even more effective than tomato paste was dehydrated tomatoes which contain a higher amount of FruHis, an organic carbohydrate. The tomato paste or dehydrated tomatoes and broccoli could easily be included in one's daily juicing.
So if it is said that juicing has no effect on cancer recovery, rest assured that juicing and/or supplementation with specific foods certainly does have a positive effect on cancer and its treatment.
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