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Eat to Live Well!
Fresh, whole,
Live Foods Simple Carbs
Phytoestrogens
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Herbal Teas Chocolate
Water Salt
Change Your Lifestyle to be Meno-Positive!
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Once a week eat nothing but fruits and vegetables and fresh juices or
soup broths
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Twice yearly (spring and fall) do a committed cleanse of the gut and
liver
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Get ACTIVE! (Walk, run, jump,
skip, swim) 45 mins of cardiovascular
exercise 3-4 x each week
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Stop smoking
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Avoid alcohol
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Avoid “junk food”
1. Consume a primarily vegetarian
diet. Do not consume red meat, due to
its high saturated fat content, presence of both pesticides and herbicides in
the meat, and slow transit time which allows for more fermentation and
putrefaction in the digestive tract.
Salmon, tuna, eel, macrel, herring, cod, trout and other cold water fish
are acceptable.
2. Generally consume 75%
alkaline-forming foods (fruits, vegetables, seaweeds, sprouted seeds and
grains, millet, mushrooms, almonds, kidney beans, lentils and adzuki beans) and
25% acid forming foods (breads and flour products, corn, rice, oatmeal, barley,
meat, eggs, fish, poultry, pasta, roasted nuts, dairy, cooked oils)
3. Eat foods rich in
enzymes. These include raw fruits and
vegetables and sprouted seeds and grains
4.
Be careful about the kinds of fat you use, avoiding meat fat,
hydrogenated fats, saturated fats, margarine and rancid oils (any oil in a
clear bottle). Olive oil protects
against breast cancer. It should be
extra virgin olive oil, purchased in a metal containter. You can use it liberally. Flaxseed oil is also beneficial
5. Cultivate a high fiber diet,
injesting 30 grams of fiber daily.
Fiber reduces the amount of circulating estrogen in the blood and
therefore reduces the risk of breast cancer over time. You can incorporate a high fiber diet by eating
a cooked cereal for breakfast such as oatmeal, quinoa, kasha, 7 grain, millet
etc with added wheat bran, oat bran and freshly ground flax seeds.
6. Eat organically whenever
possible, to be free of pesticides, herbicides and organocholorines and to support
planetary ecology.
7. Consume soy products
regularly. These prevent the
initiation, promotion and recurrence of breast cancer. Soy also protects cells from the
cancer-promoting effects of radiation and chemicals.
8. Eat flax seeds any way you
can. Grind them and add them to
pancakes, muffins, cookies, breads, cereals or in a salad. Grind daily so that the oils do not go
rancid. Flaxseeds contain lignan
precursors which become converted to weak estrogens in the body that behave
like soy's isoflavones. Aim for 2-4
tablespoons daily.
9. Eat a raw onion and 1-2 cloves
of garlic daily. Both of these protect
against canter generally
10. Eat 1-2 cups of beans or
lentils daily.
11. Eat sea vegetables
regularily.
12. Drink freshly made vegetable
juices daily.
13. Drink less than 2-3 alcoholic
beverages weekly. The alcohol may
interfere with the liver's ability to detoxify both chemicals and excess
estrogen in the body.
14. Avoid salt and increase
potassium to maintain acid/alkaline balance in the body. High potassium foods include sea vegetables,
olives, almonds, apples, apple cider vinegar, bananas, legumes, beets, green
leafy vegetables, sunflower seeds, yams, winter squash, pumpkin and mint leaves.
15. Avoid sugar and sweetenters. Glucose, sucrose, fructose, honey and orange
juice all lower the white blood cell count (and thus immunity) for more than
five hours after injesting them. Limit
your sweets to fruit. Prefer
non-pasturized honey, unsulphured black strap molasses, raw cane sugar, rice or
barley malt.
16.
Avoid coffee. Coffee is an adrenal stimulant that causes a short-lived
output of adrenal hormones followed by a depletion in them, creating the desire
for another coffee. It is high in
chemicals that have been used both in the growing and the processing of
it. These burden the liver so that it
is less able to detoxify both internally generated and external toxins. Use Greens
Plus or an adrenal tonic to help kick the coffee addiction.
Apples Cherries Olives Plums
Wheat Germ Whole Grains Coconuts Carrots
Soybeans Yams Peanuts Nightshade family
Garlic Parsley Anise Seed Alfalfa
Red Clover Red
Raspberries Fennel Ginger
Licorice
Vit E Vit
C Calcium Vit D
Magnesium Zinc EPO Bioflavonoids
Vit B5 Boron Microminerals Multivitamin
Digestive enzymes Antioxidants Bee Pollen Super Green Food
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