Page 44Anti-Cancer Diets
Couple this with the fact that the main effective regimens against cancer (once
contracted) are dietary. Most famous is the Max Gerson diet. It has its successes.
However it is a formidable diet to follow, practically a career move in its own
right, including juicing and coffee enemas several times a day. My belief is that it
singles out very determined people and only those with an intense desire to stay
alive at all costs will put up with it! This makes it hard to evaluate properly.
Less demanding is the Budwig diet, named after Johanna Budwig. She advocates
lots of good fresh food, which is great. But the keynote of her plan is flaxseed oil
(omega-3s, of course – back to the Eskimos), which is taken with cottage cheese
(very unnatural and nothing to do with the basic hunter-gatherer diet). She has
lots of success stories too.
I suggest that all those who find it necessary to add other protocols or
to add supplements to it have not even given the Budwig Protocol half
a chance. They just don’t look beyond the flaxoil/cottage cheese part.
There is much more to it than that. It is a scientifically well thought
out, all natural approach to health, that has a tremendous rate of
success and track record... and it costs next to nothing. I think that if
it were very expensive and much money could be made on it, it would
be much more popular because it would be pushed by business. But as
it stands, it doesn’t lend itself to it. So you have to take it at practically
no cost or go for some other high priced methods.
Dr William C. Kelley also deserves a big place in the history of anti-cancer
diets. Kelley cured himself of virulent pancreatic cancer, using a mainly dietary
approach. He had a questionnaire-based analysis of metabolic types, which led
to customized dietary recommendations. Kelley developed ten basic diets with
95 variations. These ranged from pure vegetarian to exclusively meat. The diets
forbade processed foods, pesticide residues, milk, soy beans, peanuts, food
concentrates, white sugar, and white rice. It allowed almonds, low protein grains
and nuts, yogurt, “organic” raw vegetable and fruit juices, salads, and whole
grain cereals.
You can find Kelley’s complete first edition book One Answer to Cancer on
my website http://www.alternative-doctor.com/cancer/kelley.htm [Kelley gave John
Scudamore and me permission to publish his first edition free on the web before
he finally passed on—38 years after cancer of the pancreas tried to claim him!]