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Do you have a reference for the trial.
What was the source of the calories? What was the diet. How were the calories reduced. How excessive was the diet in calories before reduction?.
A suggestion that depriving the body of nutrients will cure cancer in part implies that nutients are feeding cancers.
Would a better approach not be to try and remove nutients from the diet that are reported as connected to fuelling cancer, and ensuring a good and varied supply of those that are reported to reduce risks.
This is an immensly complex condition. Single "bullets" are unlikely to provide whole solutions.
Have you thought about diet as an adjunct to treatment. There are several studies suggesting it reduces risks. For those who overload their bodies moderation in intake may be a factor, as might be exercise, and dietary change.
You might like to look at the posts on omega threes and sixes, which for me as part of a good diet are likely essential factors in a risk reduction strategy. Balancing the omega threes and six implies significant dietary changes towards a healty diet which is also reported as a risk reducing factor.
At the end of the days whilst there are lots of pointers and several books around the subject, trials on fats in diet have not been performed in sufficient depth or rigour to give definative arguments.
Such trials would be much cheaper than the amounts ploughed into drugs development but there are no huge profits in the answers they may yield - in fact they could potentially significantly reduce markets fro many existing treatments. Only when goverments decide to fund them will we see these trials happen.
I cannot give you any thoughts on fasts and BC as I have no looked at it to see what information exists. Looking at it from the view point of the impact of diet on breast cancer there are many reports which suggest diet may bring risk reduction.
Another question - where and if people have claimed benifit from fast what was their condition pre fast - I guess that if you are fasting you are living of your stores fat and otherwise - what if they represent the diet that contributed to your problem in the first place Eg high levels of omega six in body fat. Does the body treat fats differently in a fast. What happens to the eicosanoid pathways. What body mechanisms change in fast.
So many questions.
If you are looking for adjuncts to treatment diet might be a better trodden pathway to start. There are lots of thought provoking posts on omega three and six on this site, and some diet links to. Click on search above and enter your search term.
Please consult with your advisors in planning any significant dietary changes.
RB
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