What foods are you eating to reduce recurrence?

And if you'll all indulge me just a bit, let me tell you how shocked I was at my nutritionist's response to my starting the day, every day, with orange juice.  "Sugar water," she said.  "But I always get the kind marked 'most pulp!'"  Apparently, not much better; the juice comes all nicely prepackaged in the fruit for a reason.  Instead, she indicated that our livers use water to cleanse themselves.  Took me a while, but I kind of caught onto the concept that I really want to protect my liver right now.  Accordingly, a big glass of water starts the day.  And yes, many months later I still very much miss my orange juice!

I am confused. I eat sugar....raw honey which I put a small spoon in my morning lemon juice once a day. And I have three pieces (size of a quarter) of dark chocolate 70%. Am I fueling my cancer cells?? But there are good components in those natural sweet things....

And i have to say I don't have pollen allergy this season....I contribute it to my raw honey. 

I really don't understand the sugar thing. I know there have been many loooong articles in the mainstream press. My attention span is limited. Here's what DAna FArber says, short and sweet (no pun intended!!)

http://www.dana-farber.org/Health-Library/Sugar-and-Cancer-Cells.aspx

There is a real connection to food being the cause and the cure. I have been given a gift from my grandfather- a green thumb.  I grow much of the food I eat, and after my diagnosis I stepped it up, and grew more, however did so completely organically.  That means zero pesticides, herbicides, and or artificial growth agents.  I have begun to reuse my seeds, including shared seeds from organic organizations. I also buy food from the local farmers market.  My garden feeds us in more ways than nutrients derived from the food.  I feel blessed to live in the Southern California region where growing a garden relatively easy year round.   Tonight, I will go out to my garden and see what possible for dinner!  Maybe a kale and cucumber salad, with beets........

Regarding the list, I can tell you what I wont eat/drink.  Milk or milk products (even organic), red meat, pork, wheat flour products, refined sugars, or just about anything that wont go bad after sitting in your fridge for more than a week. 

Momine

I partly agree. Whether it is pure sugar or grains that the body converts to sugar, it all amounts to the same thing. I chose to eliminate, to me its the only viable option. (Interesting video on wheat and carbs)

I disagree with your statement about sugar not interacting with a cell,

From Colleen Huber, NMD,

"...One effect of IGF-1 is to deliver sugar into a
cell, among other things... IGF-1 acts as a growth
factor in breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer^, among other cancers.

Tumor growth is thought to occur by the fact that insulin delivers
sugar to cells and that cancer cells are thought to be more dependent on
sugar than normal cells. Whereas normal cells down-regulate their
receptors after a certain level of saturation with sugar, cancer appears
to be insatiable. Cancer’s rapid growth seems to place no limit on the
sugar it can use. Insulin delivers that sugar. Some cells develop
mutations to enhance insulin’s influence on the cell’s sugar uptake.
Craig Thompson MD, President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
in New York has studied insulin and IGF’s influence on cancer cells and
has said he believes that insulin is what drives malignant tumors to
take up more and more blood sugar and to metabolize it, and that it is
this process that allows many pre-cancerous cells to undergo the
mutations that make them malignant.^{" (}source⁾ 

^{Glucose in the blood is sugar in the blood so I'm not really following you here.}

juneping

If you are eating honey (or any other sweetener) without fiber, it will go much more quickly into your blood stream. Considering that cancer cells seem to interact very positively to sugar, it would appear that you would be giving it something it needed to thrive. If you absolutely MUST have sugar Gymnema taken both before and after consumption is found to not allow the sugar to enter the blood stream. But even then eating sugar on a regular basis should never be recommended. 

Thanks Momine for posting a relevant excerpt. The link really is about healthy eating - avoiding processed and refined foods. Sugar is necessary to the body and not an isolated 'evil' carcinogenic. It is more complex than that and the belief it seems is that the insulin resistance is what is bad. Anyway….

Curious LIssee as to why you eliminate even organic low fat milk and milk products - is it because there's no avoiding some growth hormones such products? 

Hi, I had posted these once before on another thread about honey's effect on breast cancer.

Honey

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/989841/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...

http://foodforbreastcancer.com/foods/honey

http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/manuka-honey

2nd site from the bottom:  wish they's written a paragraph on bee pollen which I've only recently stopped taking dayly

anyone ever heard about the benefits of "fasting" ? I am going to ask my naturopathic dr today about it.fasting for 3 days,eating nothing except drinking water,then few days of good diet then fasting again,and alternate...just a way to cleanse your body and starves the cancerous cells.normal cells cope well with fasting but cancerous cells starve to death as I read...I'm sure this regimen don't apply on people with diabetes problem or other medical history ,like cardiac patients,etc....I wonder if anyone considered this method.

Here's what Wikipedia (check the entry yourself for the footnotes/sources/add'l bkgd reading) says about Gary Null's credentials. He's been referred to more than once on this thread, and really, I have no idea what authority he has on any of this.  If you're going to refer to him and quote him as if he's credentialed, let me just throw out there what they are (his credentials):

"Null was raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, with his two brothers. He holds an associate's degree in business administration from Mountain State College in West Virginia and a bachelor of science degree from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey. He has been certified by the State of New York as a dietitian-nutritionist.^[7]

Null holds a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public health sciences from Union Institute & University,^[1] a private distance-learning college headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[1][8] Null's doctoral thesis was entitled "A Study of Psychological and Physiological Effects of Caffeine on Human Health".^[1]

His credentials, including the degree-granting practices at Edison State and the rigor of the Ph.D. program at Union Institute, have been questioned by Stephen Barrett on his Quackwatch website, who labeled Null as "one of the nation's leading promoters of dubious treatment for serious disease." Dr. Barrett also reported that when asked whether he had ever taken a science-based course in nutrition or public health, Null refused to answer.^[1]"

wiki castigates all alternative health information & gary is suing them, not for erroneous info on him, but for calling bryzinski's therapy quackery

just a quick note,I saw the naturopathe yesterday,I was a bit disappointed because he was talking about himself for most part and reading from a book for me..I didn't think the visit was worth 165 dollars at all as all what he said I was familiar with,however he insisted on a good diet full of greens especially CABBAGE that helps detoxify from excess estrogens. He talked about melatonin I didn't know about that..he believes that cancer is related a lot to STRESS..as I asked him about this,because my bc came after a very stressful time of my life,so he confirmed my thoughts as stress can weaken immune system a lot..I'm just telling what he said. Because I always wondered about that. All the vitamins that already known as anti cancer he mentioned. No need to repeat. He said about the benefits of FASTING. Lots of benefits,of course and the fact that cancerous cells starve is true. This doesn't mean it works for everyone,it's sure hard..I tried 2 days ago just having water and liquids and I was fine because I had anxiety that kept me with no appetite,however the 2nd day even though I wasn't hungry still but I was shaking and felt so weak..so you need to be careful with fasting,it might weaken your immune system if you overdo it just as the naturopaths said, calories restrictions and avoiding FAT and SUGAR is essential. Fat and sugar fuel breast cancer..all the informations that we know about I guess.

gary has said many times that it's not good to heat to satiety

juneping, i would love to eat till I feel full and not feeling hungry,unfortunately you will have to feel hungry  obviously and sacrifice and eat less calories if you want benefits..fibre can help you feel ful,you can find it in fruits and veggies.quinona is an ancient grain and it's had lots of nutrients. I tried it but is not something magical that can help you feel less hungry...depends on each person,unfortunately everything healthy doesn't taste good..since my diagnosis and I'm dirpiving myself from many things I used to eat and love,,,try to have fish,lentils,beans,all dried,avoid cans..pre packed food...make berries smoothies with no sugar...etc..