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Dr Ruth Cilento's Anti-Cancer Cookbook - Cancer Preventing Foods

Many foods have the capacity to revive a flagging immune system, prevent cancer developing and even halts its progress. Those that contain most anti-oxidants and free radical scavengers are the best. They include all the fresh & raw fruits, vegetables & foods in the cookbook menu.

Anti Cancer Cookbook

Between 1983-1994 in her Brisbane clinic, Dr Ruth helped more than 15,000 people with cancer to happily increase their survival time by "super nutrition and stress control". In this book you will find some of her recipes for feasting on natures own healing power.

Testimonials

Eat Well To Fight Cancer (Herald Sun Monday, February 3, 1997)

Food does more than just taste good and fill our stomachs. According to Australian Author,

Dr Ruth Cilento, it can also be an important ingredient in helping prevent cancer. In Dr Ruth Cilento's Anti Cancer Cookbook, the follow up to her first book, Heal Cancer Choose Your Own Survival Path, she says the right food coupled with a sound mental and physical environment, can keep cells cancer free. Her new book is useful not just for those with cancer, but for those who want to prevent falling victim to the disease, she says.

But she stops short of proclaiming a cure for cancer - rather, the recipes are an adjunct to other therapies. Dr Cilento, a GP in Bald Hills near Brisbane, says that for peak health, white flour, sugar, hard animal fats, alcohol, processed or refined foods, and those with artificial colours, flavours and preservatives should be eliminated from the diet.

Dr Ruth Cilento's Anti Cancer Cookbook consists predominantly of recipes and ends with an interesting chart of which foods to include in your diet and which to avoid.

The Meal That Can Eat Up The Day

No one gets a guarantee against cancer, but as much of the current nutritional research shows, the foods we eat play a big part in helping to prevent us getting cancer and other illnesses.

Dr Ruth Cilento, who is well known in Australia and internationally for her successful work with cancer patients has produced a menu for survival in her Anti Cancer Cookbook, sub titled creative feasts, simply delicious.

As well as some excellent recipes, the book gives information on foods and their vitamin and mineral content, the essential nutrients for building up the immune system and an extensive list of foods to avoid and those to include if you haven't already been diagnosed with the illness.

Preface

In 1982 my favourite cousin, my uncle and two dear friends died of cancer. I knew very little about cancer at that time and I felt frustrated, sad and helpless.

Always keen on research, I started reading everything I could in the literature that would give me clues on how this horrible disease begins and how to counteract it.

I was fortunate in having available the extensive library that my mother, Lady Phyllis Cilento, had collected in her lifelong practice of medicine, partic

It soon became clearly evident that cancer is not just a series of lumps and ulcers, but a state of the whole body. It starts as a chemical imbalance and a change in cell membrane potential that causes cells to become stressed. The chemical imbalance can be precipitated by many known factors, but also by many unknown changes that can occur insidiously while we appear to be healthy.

Of the 150 different identified types of tissue in the body about 120 contain cells with a nucleus or computer that tells the cell what work to do. Around each of these cells is a protective layer of ionised chemicals that keep the nucleus in a good state of health. Damage can occur when viruses, germs or chemical toxins broach this protective cell membrane.

It is a change in the working of the besieged nucleus that causes cancer. This change is made possible by deficiencies in the chemical protectors of the cell membrane. The chemicals of our body come almost entirely from our food and fluids. They are grouped into categories for identification and study purposes and include a vast array of substances.

Some of these are "essential", that is the body must take them in already made up into a form it can use. Others, although essential for health, can be manufactured by the body when needed out of its food or storage substances such as fat.

Food nutrients necessary for humans are:

Proteins

The ground substance of every cell, the building blocks of proteins are smaller molecules called amino acids - 22 in all, eight of which are essential.

Main sources of proteins and amino acids are in meat, liver, kidney and other animal parts, fish, eggs, milk and milk products and some in unrefined grains and legumes

(the bean and pea family). Among the diseases caused by protein lack the most evident is Kwashiakor, a lethal malnutrition of people in third world countries. Eighty per cent of those who die of this have concommitant cancer.

Carbohydrates

The unrefined grains and beans contain most starches and sugars in the best complete forms. When we refine them we change sometimes the combinations and upset the natural balance of substances there. For instance, carbohydrates always occur in combination with fibre, another essential of the body. When we refine a product such as sugar we take out the essential fibre and leave the "pure" carbohydrate that the body then may have difficulty using in the way we have evolved to use it. Imbalances here can cause diabetes, obesity and other metabolic diseases.

Fats

Fats are an essential part of every cell membrane in the body. There are many type of fats not all of them healthy. The body can convert excess carbohydrates to fat for storage. Our processed and refined modern diet provides too much fat in its worst forms and too much carbohydrate that is converted to bad forms of fat such as low density lipid (LDL) that can collect in the arteries as cholesterol plaques.

However, the good fats with essential fatty adds such as linolenic (GLA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are the necessary protectors of all cell membrane integrity and are basic in preventing cancer, allergies etc. Some diseases of too much fat are obesity, hardening of the arteries and heart disease.

Fibre

The body uses fibre in many ways as we now know. It is not used just for the bulk that keeps the food in the bowel moving along. It also chelates out some toxic substances from the food and probably contains chemical constituents that act as catalysts in the digestive processes.

Fluid

An integral part of every cell for carrying of soluble or emulsified nutrients. We need a minimum of six to eight glasses of fluid a day. It may be in the form of pure water, but for those who have a limited appetite, pure freshly made fruit and vegetable juice is better. Herb teas also have a time honoured gently therapeutic place.

Vitamins and Minerals

The body cannot make vitamins and minerals but they are essential to its health and healing power. They are the catalysts that begin and end the thousands of chemical transactions that go on constantly in our bodies and in our brains. Without them we die. When they are deficient (as they are in the modern diet) we are "below par", not functioning to out best potential.

If we eat a full diet with no man-made chemicals in it we could gain all that we need. People with cancer find this very difficult. They are also depleted over years of polluted environment. Many need supplements which must be worked out individually by careful assessment. Most anti-cancer nutritional programs have been created especially to provide the right nutrients in the most useful proportions and ratios.

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