Diet for Breast Health

DrEliaz

There are many things you can do to support breast health, but perhaps one of the most important is improving your diet. Eating more fiber, less animal fat, and including a wide range of organic fruits and vegetables in your diet can increase your chances of preventing the risks of breast cancer by improving your body's nutritional and antioxidant profiles.

Diets rich in organic fruits and vegetables are linked with enhanced antioxidant activity, improved digestion, healthy inflammation response, proper glucose metabolism, healthier lipid profiles, and increased immune activity, among other health benefits.

Food choices that provide the most effective breast support include those high in essential fatty acids, such as salmon, tuna, halibut, algae, walnuts, and oils including flaxseed, olive and canola oils. These sources help to reduce inflammation and suppress the growth of cancer cells in the body.

Cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, and cabbage also feed your system with essential antioxidants and phytonutrients needed to maintain healthy cell function and modulate hormone activity. Vegetables also contain essential vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, and beta carotene, which all protect against cellular damage and effectively boost immunity.

misfit

It may be ideal if we could all follow these recommendations but I don't think it's realistic. Not everyone can afford to eat organically, and why is there always so much emphasis on variety? Surely there must be a way to eat a healthy diet on a low income, which would probably involve larger quantities of fewer items. I tend to rely on things like chickpeas, tuna, brown rice, apples and bananas. For me avoiding bad foods is the most important thing.

Claire_in_Seattle

Not flax for us ER+ types.

Otherwise, I see no difference from what you say and what we should be eating anyway.

Also, Misfit makes a major point.  I try to eat locally-produced where possible, and not necessarily organic.  You are assuming that all of us have a ton of money to spend on food.

My real challenge would be for you to go to Wal-Mart and come up with a healthy list with what is available there.  So much easier at Whole Paycheck.

BTW - this is from someone who spends a lot of money on food (relatively).  But even I don't eat salmon as frequently as I should.  I do eat a ton of fruits and veggies.....again, I try to find deals on locally produced.

vespersparrow

Wow, post already deleted?... darn, I would have liked to have read it first!  I do eat organically most of the time, I do eat flax, and even though I am far from rich I rarely enter a Walmart.  I might have benefitted from this information.  Oh well.  Censorship makes me sad though.

1Athena1

I am glad the post was deleted. That guy must think we are all total idiots. I mean, Stage IV Idocy, with spread to bones, brain, liver, lungs and eyes.

weedgirl, you didn't miss anything. Just a message about "eat organic, fruits and veggies, etc..." Does he think none of the thousands of women who post here had thought of it? I rather wonder if it was a prelude to a sales pitch. And prevention? This is a discussion board mostly for people wh have had BC already. Just a twit, basically.

I love that sisters on BCO have a better sense of smell than a dog for spam and showmanship....

dlb823

You're right, Athena; it was a poor idea for him to post here.  But in his defense, I think it was naivetee about the audience and level of knowledge on this board, and not an effort to scam or merely sell his product.  I've followed him for awhile on FB and asked lots of questions about him elsewhere, and everything I've heard has been very positive.  For what it's worth (and I could be wrong), I think he's actually a very dedicated integrative doctor and researcher, and that he has some excellent, cutting-edge products (although I haven't used any of them).  It seems to me if he was just in the supplement business for the money, he would sell a lot of what everyone buys, and he doesn't.  It's strictly a few, targeted, propriatary formulas.

I totally agree that his approach here was inappropriate, but I feel bad seeing him painted as a bad guy because I don't think he is by any means -- just naive about the knowledge on this particular discussion board, so that his posts came across as entirely too self-serving, when I really think he was trying to be informative. 

If anyone knows anything to the contrary, please clue me in.  I'm still thinking of trying his Breast Defend b'cuz it would replace at least 3 products I use now.     Deanna

vespersparrow

I saw Dr Eliaz and his product featured on Ralph Moss's blog recently. Not sure if I can post URLs here, but if you go to his blog the entry is from October 9th. The comments and questions are particularly interesting, and I liked the way that Dr Eliaz returned and answered many of the people's questions.Whether or not you agree with the supplement there's some good information there. He's clearly done a great deal of research into this field and I personally would have liked to hear more of what he had to share with us, or ask him my own questions, and I do wish this community could have embraced him instead of running him off so quickly. I think an opportunity may have been missed here.

However, since I did NOT see his initial post, I can't say how I would have reacted myself, and what's done is done!