Where is the beef?

[RhondaH]

I follow Becky's theory. I am allergic to fowl (an until prior to dx fish also) so my diet PRIOR to dx was ONLY beef and pork (not to mention the handfuls of candy). SINCE dx, I eat fish 2 times per week (Allrecipe and Chicken of the Sea have AWESOME recipes), vegetarian 2 times per week and beef/pork 2 times per week (I have my phytochemical smoothie in the morning and my salad is my lunch that's why it's EASY for me to get 11-14 servings of fruit/veg per day...it took practice in the beginning, but now it is second nature). Take care and God bless.

Rhonda

[tousled1]

I never ate much red meat but every so often I would and still do get a terrible craving for a good steak. I too believe that in moderation anything is a go.

[R.B.]

There are previous posts looking at the impact of injected hormones in farm animals, and grass grazed with corn fed.

Also in comparative terms animals are higher in fat including intra muscular than they used to be when they had more exercise.

Nothing is ever simple when you start looking at the detail, but moderation, and as natural as you can afford and maybe? choosing grass fed eg lamb which is more likely to be grass reared.

RB

[SusanV]

I believe that a well balanced diet with the addition of exercise will assist in leading a healthy lifestyle that will help keep our minds, bodies and souls in the right place in this journey.

I believe in my heart of hearts, that if these horrible cancers that we are facing were diet driven, our oncologists would spend a significant amount of time adding this information to our treatment plans. I am a modern medicine, proven science kind of girl. I also ate healthy prior to this DX, never smoked, and drank only on special occasions...Just like my oncologist said, it is sometimes amazing what living a healthy lifestyle gets you !

LOVE TO ALL

[StephN]

We have been having a lot of discussion on this board lately about what MOST LIKELY is causing our cancers when so few of us have more than 2 risk factors and NO family history.

As R B just alluded to, let's look closely at the CORPORATE foods that we eat. Look at the labels and see if you understand more than 3 or 4 of the ingredients. Looks like Greek to me! Or a chemistry class.

I guess I had not heard that cancer patients should avoid beef altogether. I eat it once or twice a week. My grandmother ate all the steaks she wanted (good local Florida beef) and lived to be 98, taking NO pills for anything.

On my way to the local Thursday Farmer's Market. Here I can get fresh, organic, First Person Foods (bought from the person who grew it). Looking forward to the last of the peaches - yum!

[R.B.]

Susan food does alter gene expression.

Please see Greek diet post with particular emphasis on balancing the omega threes and sixes.

With the messages on polyunsaturates lots of people me included were happily imbibing high levels of omega six veg oil and relatively low levels of omega three, getting IBS type symptoms etc and thinking that their fat balance was a healthy one.

There is no question that food can figure as a risk reduction strategy, but there is little money in diet compared with drugs so it has not had the same level of funding for trials etc as drugs, and will not until Governements look at the upcoming health bill and social implications of increasing rates of western conditions from a preventative rather than treatment perspective, and fund the necessary rigourous trials (eg based on gene expression, measurements of fats in the body etc) on fats for example. The what did you eat are simply not sensitive or accurate enough so large meta trial results are often mixed and inconclusive.

There is also no question that some are simply more prone than others.

If you have already done the omega three six thing - apologies.

RB

[karenann]

Rhonda,

Just out of curiosity, what does your phytochemical smoothie consist of?


Oh, and I agree with the, everything in moderation diet.


Thanks,

Karen