102 Diet Wise
Cancer DietsThe individualistic diet approach outlined in this book, I found
to be enormously helpful to cancer sufferers. Over the years, my patients
(many of whom had cancer, whether they came to see me for that reason or
not), did incredibly well and did not experience a recurrence.
I can only speculate that this was due to reducing the immune
burden, by getting rid of toxic and allergic foods. As you probably know,
cancer is best seen as a disease of the immune system; when working well,
our immune system should clean up cancer cells and destroy them, before
they ever get going as a tumor.
For this reason, you must be cautious with all “set diet” programs,
even famous and supposedly successful ones, like the Gerson, Kelley or
Burdwig programs.
Firstly, they may be working only by the exclusion effect (getting rid
of likely problem foods).
Secondly, what they tell you are good foods may be toxic to you and
produce a bad result.
In that sense, the Diet Wise plan is right for everybody, meaning
each person should work out his or her own safe foods and stick to them.
That is the lowest immune burden you can get and that’s what you need, to
maximise the fight against malignancy.
If you are battling this dangerous disease, be sure to read this book
carefully and apply its important principles to your eating habits.