What foods are you eating to reduce recurrence?
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always forget something: also addes fresh squeezed lemon & lime juice & some black olives
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PSK mushrooms and astragalus
Anything brown: rice, bread
olive oil and lots of salad with red wine vinegar
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mushroom lasagna recipe would be much appreciated if you would care to share momine? good morning to all
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Wyo, it is not super-virtuous, but once in a while Inneed a noodle fix. I make a tomato sauce starting with finely chopped onion, garlic, celery and carrot. saute that a bit in olive oil, add half cup red wine, let wine bubble off, add 3 cans crushed tomato, sal, pepper, big handful of chopped parsley, zest of one orange. while that simmers, cube 4 large portobellos and saute them quickly. add to tomato sauce.
Then trim and clean a pound of oyster mushrooms and saute them. set aside.
make a quart of bechamel. let it cool a bit and beat two eggs into it.
Put a little sauce in a tin, add a layer of noodles (no boil), thick layer of sauce, half the oyster mushrooms, dots of ricotta, repeat, top with noodles, pour over bechamel and bake 45 minutes. Top should be set and nicely browned. let sit for 15 minutes before serving.
We had a slaw of cauliflower and carrot with a coriander/lemon dressing and black cumin seeds as our side.
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I eat the same as I did before Dx....my diet has always been healthy...only change is I drink more red wine that I did before!!!
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Yes Karen!!!! More red wine! I find it compliments my healthy diet. It is the nectar of the g*ds.
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I love red wine, too. Sigh. But I am leery of drinking it since I got my diagnosis (which doesn't mean I don't from time to time). I just find it suspicious that France ranks 3rd in the world for BC rates, and they are 1st or 2nd in the world for wine consumption.
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Yumm Momine..I can taste that lasagna just reading about it...full of shrooms and veggies...and that slaw...sounds really wonderful!
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Momine- this sounds quite marvelous- can't wait to try making it. Made my own little "guilty pleasure" today too. A tortellini soup made with tomatoes, spinach, ground sausage and OMG- low fat cream cheese. I know very decadent but once in a while you just have to taste something that the flavors just all "pop" - it was wonderful.
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thanks, Momine!!! Sounds like a treat.
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Wyo (and others), the tomato sauce with the portobellos is really easy and very tasty by itself as well. I freeze single servings of it and eat it over a small serving of quinoa, for example.
The bechamel I make with olive oil instead of butter (I always did after my Greek MIL showed me) and low-fat milk. It does still have white flour, but it is actually not too terrible, by comfort food standards. But again, for a quicker and healthier meal, just make the mushroom sauce.
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Momine, if you ever open a restaurant I will fly to Greece. The tomato sauce with portobellos over quinoa sounds really good, too. And that slaw sounds great! (I plan on attempting a version of it.)
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Momine, sounds very tasty, I will join Falleaves if you go in business, I have always wanted to go to Greece.
Karen, thanks for the wine endorsement. I like good red wine, but now, I am paranoid about alcohol, I have had wine recently, just finished rads. I listened to the Drs. MO said no more than 3 a week. My PCP said one a day.
I am eating as healthily as I can, lots of veggies ( broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cabbage, asparagus ) fruit, cut way back on meat. I do not like beans, and I know they are a good thing. I eat a lot of nuts, almonds & walnuts.
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Falls, the slaw is super-easy. Slice cauliflower thinly. Grate a carrot or two coarsely. Then take a bunch of cilantro, juice of half a lemon and a clove of garlic and put it in a blender with some olive oil. Pour that over the veggies. Toss and sprinkle black cumin over the top. It looks pretty, tastes good and will keep 1-2 days in the fridge without getting yucky. You can also sprinkly shopped nuts over the top. I do this a lot with various cabbages and root veggies. Experiment and see what you like.
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Thanks for the slaw recipe, Momine! Since I don't have cauliflower (but I do have everything else) maybe I'll try it with red cabbage, first. Sounds delicious AND super healthy!
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Fall, red cabbage would work. If your food processor has a mandolin blade, you can cut it in there. You can grate carrots into it, but beets or parsnip are nice too. You can also thinly slice or grate a few radishes in a salad like that. The possibilities are many. For the dressing you can use other herbs or a mixture of different ones.
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I just saw people try to lose weight. I was thin, but since I had BC, all my family and friends told me to gain some weight so I have some reserve in my body to fight sickness. Even my doctor told me to gain a few pounds. I gained 15 lbs. Now I weigh 130lb. I am 5'5".
Did I do the wrong thing to gain 15 lbs? Man, it's so easy to gain. It will be tough to lose them. I had to watch what I eat for the past 27 years. I have been eating a lot and gaining weight for the last year.
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I just started the Mushroom pills, I've been reading alot about them and decided to give it a try. There are so many companies selling them, but I opted for one of the more expensive ones because of it's ingredients, and it's popularity within the Chinese community. It's a ViCare Product called Vi-Reishi. I'm still researching other mushrooms with high PSK and PSP values. I also ordered some organic Reishi and Turkey Tail mushroom to grow at home, but I heard it's hard for the body to extract the so called cancer fighting ingredients by just grinding and eating in pill form. A reputable company can do that, but I guess it reflects in the price. I'm going to make it a project to try and extract via boiling and alcohol.
I also purchased 5 lbs of organic wheat grass and the Hurricane juicer that help squeeze out all the nutrients. It grows within a week a read, so that will be another fun project. If anyone knows any other immune system boosters please share!
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the mushroom forager greg marley? sp? has a receipe on how to prepare wild mushrooms, alcohol decoction is one. he's on fb but not sure it's there: his book mushrooms for health is a treat & joy
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Thanks Abigail! I'll look him up!
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Julie, I did get too thin in the course of treatment, and my onc was bugging me to put on a few pounds, which I did. Then he kept bugging me to keep gaining, and I asked him if he would rather have me overweight or the way I am now (thin). He gave me a slightly crooked grin, and admitted that thin is better. The latest recommendation I heard is that you want to stay at or below a BMI of 23, if you have had BC. Your current weight puts you at a BMI of 21.5, which is great.
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Momine, just wanted to say I used your recipe to make red cabbage/carrot/beet slaw and it was very tasty! I will definitely be adding that to my repertoire (and I look forward to trying different versions). Thanks!
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Falls, that is great. Glad you liked it.
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Bitter Melon decreased breast cancer cell growth
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100223131956.htm -
BTW, Juicing veggies isn't really a very good thing to do Here's Dr Agus (USC/author/MD blah blah) on Fareed Zakaria's show re "prevention" and health/cancer. He says juicing/oxidizes fruits and veggies and takes out all the good stuff leaving you with sugar.
See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0cS_39LKQ
at 4:40…..
Big thing is to MOVE. Get up. Avoid sedentary life! He's big on a baby aspirin a day.
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there are juicers & juicers, the expensive kind uses presure not spin to extract the juice which oxidizes far less & less soon. )I don't have one of these.)
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i think it's the fiber that's missing if juicing as main food intake??
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I made smoothies with broccoli or kale as one of the ingredients, and usually a little flax seed meal. Fruit (fresh and frozen) adds sweetness and I use unsweetened coconut milk or yogurt. That way you get all the fiber and nutrients. I've started adding in a greens powder with chlorella as well, as one of my practitioners wants me to remineralize more with the greens.
Has anyone heard of quark or cottage cheese and flax oil? I was advised that it is very nutritionally healing.
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i just watched "Forks over Knives"...it promotes plants based diet which is something i already knew. but i am a little bummed about the dairy part even when consumed as organic and raw. 2-3 months ago, i started drinking raw goat milk and raw cow yogurt and i do eat organic eggs daily as well. i did some research and found this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/dairy-...
it didn't really say how bad but more about avoiding dairy.
i also read a blog
http://themilkblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-raw-mi...
it says raw milk has just as much as the growth hormones as the factory milk. but he didn't give out any kind of data where he got the information. this wrtie russel eaton is a nutrition book write, how reliable he is?? so far i am not very impressed. he just put stuff out there without any reference except promoting his books.
i would like to hear what your opinions...pls share.
i drink raw milk bc i like the taste of it. and i also like eating eggs, one per day. the yogurt, well, i thought it's healthy and i eat it more as a afternoon snack with raspberries and blueberries.
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RE: milk, raw and otherwise. I read this book:
Your Life In Your Hands: Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Breast Cancer Hardcover
by Prof. Jane Plant (Author)
the author had breast cancer - was a scientist - worked in china where breast cancer is very rare and decided there was a link between dairy products and breast cancer because of the growth factors in milk. She stopped eating all dairy - also went conventional route - and is cancer free.
I don't know what to believe. I used to drink raw milk, use butter, cheese, yogurt.... now I use a little butter on occasion and a little cheese on occasion and have stopped the other dairy products.
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