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gdpawel · 03-02-2013, 04:10 PM

In regards to the ketosis diet issue, for the first time ever, a randomized controlled trial that uses calorie restriction as a treatment for cancer, and measures a cancer-related outcome, was approved by the institutional review board at Duke University. Stephen Freedland, M.D. from Duke told Medscape Medical News that in the entire field of cancer research, there have only been a handful of studies of calorie restriction as a cancer treatment. But none of them were randomized clinical trials.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/778613

The hardest of all diet intervention studies have to be dietary intervention studies to reduce cancer. A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute showed that women with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer cut their recurrence rate by 60% if they stayed with a diet in which fewer than 20% of calories were from fat.

Nothing has ever achieved results like this before. Not chemotherapy, not radiotherapy. If results like this were ever obtained by a new drug, it would be the breast cancer treatment breakthrough of the decade.

You can debate all you want, but if you are diagnosed with breast cancer and it turns out to be estrogen receptor negative, you can either wait for proof beyond reasonable doubt or you can go with the preponderance of evidence, which is that you can cut your chance of having cancer come back 60% if you cut the fat in your diet by 30%.

Chlebowski, R. et al. Dietary Fat Reduction and Breast Cancer Outcome: Interim Efficacy Results From the Women's Intervention Nutrition Study J Natl Cancer Inst, Dec 2006; 98: 1767 - 1776.

William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html

Evidence from research on epigenetics suggests that the epigenome can be influenced by the environment which means epigenetic modifications that lead to carcinogenesis may be reversible by changing the environment.

And that envirnomental change is the totality of surrounding conditions - the milieu of the cell (toxins, viruses, carcinogens, diet). Detoxification (removing toxins, viruses, carcinogens and other biological contaminants) followed by improving what a patient consumes (organic, whole, vegetarian foods, vitamin supplements, etc.), the creation of a healthy milieu.

03-02-2013, 04:10 PM	#2
gdpawel Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,080	Re: Ketogenic Diets for Cancer In regards to the ketosis diet issue, for the first time ever, a randomized controlled trial that uses calorie restriction as a treatment for cancer, and measures a cancer-related outcome, was approved by the institutional review board at Duke University. Stephen Freedland, M.D. from Duke told Medscape Medical News that in the entire field of cancer research, there have only been a handful of studies of calorie restriction as a cancer treatment. But none of them were randomized clinical trials. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/778613 The hardest of all diet intervention studies have to be dietary intervention studies to reduce cancer. A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute showed that women with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer cut their recurrence rate by 60% if they stayed with a diet in which fewer than 20% of calories were from fat. Nothing has ever achieved results like this before. Not chemotherapy, not radiotherapy. If results like this were ever obtained by a new drug, it would be the breast cancer treatment breakthrough of the decade. You can debate all you want, but if you are diagnosed with breast cancer and it turns out to be estrogen receptor negative, you can either wait for proof beyond reasonable doubt or you can go with the preponderance of evidence, which is that you can cut your chance of having cancer come back 60% if you cut the fat in your diet by 30%. Chlebowski, R. et al. Dietary Fat Reduction and Breast Cancer Outcome: Interim Efficacy Results From the Women's Intervention Nutrition Study J Natl Cancer Inst, Dec 2006; 98: 1767 - 1776. William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html Evidence from research on epigenetics suggests that the epigenome can be influenced by the environment which means epigenetic modifications that lead to carcinogenesis may be reversible by changing the environment. And that envirnomental change is the totality of surrounding conditions - the milieu of the cell (toxins, viruses, carcinogens, diet). Detoxification (removing toxins, viruses, carcinogens and other biological contaminants) followed by improving what a patient consumes (organic, whole, vegetarian foods, vitamin supplements, etc.), the creation of a healthy milieu.