What foods are you eating to reduce recurrence?

yogamama

All foods is converted to glucose, but as BrooksideVT so thoroughly pointed out, its about maintaining balance in the blood. So avoiding foods that are high on the GI would be something to worry about.

Here is a post to the study I refereed too earlier,

"A groundbreaking, seven-year human study, by Dr. Colleen Huber, NMD and her team at Nature Works Best,
an alternative cancer clinic in Tempe, Arizona, exposes a severe threat
to the survival of cancer patients – the consumption of sweetened food
or drinks.

Dr. Huber led a team of physicians in a seven-year interventional
study where cancer patients avoided all types of sugar: honey, maple
syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, plant nectars, alcohol and
fruit juices (which are high on the glycemic index). This is the first large, human, interventional study that has indicted sugar as deadly for cancer patients. All previous studies were in mice, or retrospective, or in fewer than 20 human subjects.

Since 2006, this clinic has collected data on sugar consumption in
cancer patients, and has actively recommended, but never enforced in any
way, avoiding the consumption of sweetened foods (except with the
sweetener Stevia Rebaudiana, which has no sugar content or sugar alcohol
content). In this controlled interventional study, we followed the
diets and outcomes of all 317 cancer patients who came to our clinic
with a diagnosis of cancer, and who stayed at least two weeks in our
care.

We treated with natural methods alone, choosing among methods with
research-established anti-neoplastic effect, both oral and intravenous,
dietary and supplemented, nutritional and herbal, having a preference
for those with high patient tolerance and compatibility, and varying
with individual needs and tolerance, according to the standard
naturopathic principle of “Treat the whole person.”

The results of the study showed the group of cancer patients who were
steadfast in the recommended naturopathic treatments, but did not avoid
eating sugar had a remission rate of 36%. The second group who were
also steadfast in recommended naturopathic treatments, but did avoid
eating sugar had a remission rate of 90%. That is they did not eat:
sugar, cane sugar, honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn
syrup, plant nectars, alcohol or fruit juices (except the sweetener
Stevia Rebaudiana)."

Pretty interesting no?

scotch - i love avocados but er/pr + can't eat them too much and too often. i eat it once a week. it's filling and i love that.

i am adding more nuts to my daily snacks and with the quinoa for dinner....we'll see.

just had dinner...the quinoa was quite filling. but i have to say it feels different from eating meat kind of full.

i eat and love sweet potato but it's not in season anymore...i'll wait when it's in season again.

there's no statistics on those who've eaten only real sugars, none refined

scotch, I don't advocate for any refined sugar.  I certainly recommend a high fiber, INTACT grain, organic, plant-based diet…which is low GI.  Thank for your posting.  I've been in the oncology community for a long time and have heard all too many, without any knowledge of what they where talking about, spout off that oft tossed about  pseudo-fact "sugar feeds cancer".  Why, yes, it does, as it does all the rest of our cells.  I don't want to diminish every bodies effort to take control and make evidence-based dietary changes, that's been my work for a good many years.  It, in my personal experience, it does not render you bullet-proof.  There are many, many facets that impact each of us and we can't pretend to know what the environment is that allowed for cancer to set up shop in any one of us.  We all have different types of cancer cells, too.  What will be effective in one to cause apoptosis, may cause a rapid growth in another.

gemin4- yes, of course, you need fat in your diet.  Choose, as you said, plant-based, high quality fats.

Check www.cancerproject.org 

Yes, they do, as well as stopping testing on animals.  The information on diet is entirely evidenced-based.   All citations are listed. 

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Hey! So for everyone that is avoiding Dairy I just wanted to say: watch out for "Carrageenan" it is a carcinogenic thickener found in organic almond milk and coconut creamers and lots of organic dairy like cottage cheese and yogurt!!! Here is the link to an article on it or search the web yourself and see what you find! Scaaarrrryyy!

http://chriskresser.com/harmful-or-harmless-carrag...

Also: be careful about brewing your green tea ahead of time and drinking throughout the day. All of the polyphenols and catechisms are lost after an hour. Better to brew and drink right away. I am a celiac and mostly vegan. I do not eat sugar or simple carbs and very few complex carbs. only organic low glycemic fruits/veggies. no dairy. i make my own almond/flax bread and do alot of juicing. i am barely 5'2" and weigh 109. Ive dropped ALOT of weight on this diet since being diagnosed a little over a month ago. i am ER+ so being thin is good for me. i do drink a cup of coffee in the morning and once in awhile a plain lite latte. i also have a glass (6oz.) or organic red wine (WITH MEALS VERY IMPORTANT as it takes longer for the body to digest with folate) for the reservatol (an amazing antioxidant) found only in red wine maybe a couple days a week. i walk everyday. i take lots of vitamins including curcurmin and vit. D and grapeseed extract etc. love this forum!!! just realized my coffee needs to go as it is plastic!! learning. learning. and finding peace in good eating. lots of raw foods and mediteranean cooking!

I am so allergic to carrageenan it isn't even funny.  I have to carry an Epi-pen because I have had such severe hives from that additive.  It comes from red algae. It is used as a binder like many other of the gums (guar gum, lotus gum) and works great in products. I was experiencing hives that were hard to detect because lunch meat can have it, cottage cheese, yogurt, and yes many brands and/or flavors of almond milk, soy milk, etc. My allergist discovered it through a blood test and he said it was indeed a severe allergy.  I broke out terribly to my favorite candy bar, a Pay Day, unfortunately it too contains carrageenan. Since I now avoid it, I am feeling so much better.

Funny how the body works, I had a hysterectomy with ovaries removed in 2003. I was miserable with hot flashes and night sweats so I tried every brand and form of estrogen available. Unfortunately, I was allergic to every one I tried from patches, pills creams, bio-identical you name it I tried it.  After almost three years, I gave up as I realized the allergy was getting worse and worse. I wonder sometimes if my body was trying to tell me something. I have guilt about it at times because I wonder did I bring on a change in my cells by trying to use a hormone I was obviously allergic to. I will never know.

Also since having a hysterectomy I became completely allergic to all cow's milk. No matter how small of a dose.  I tried eating one Reese's peanut butter cup at Easter and wow = hives. Not fun. It is amazing to me how I went from being not allergic to anything to being allergic to so many food and medications. I do not understand why this has happened. My allergist says it is the environment we live in, but I wonder if they say that because you can't verify it and it is such a general statement. Our bodies are fairly adaptable so I just don't know.

Coffeelatte, A1c that high seems to me to warrant further action. 6.5 is the threshold for diabetes. Can't you ask for a referral to an endo?

Thanks Momine, I think I will call the doctor's office next week to see if I can move up the appointment.  I never worried about that number until reading on bc.org how some women are taking Metformin to reduce the glucose levels in the blood in the hopes of preventing a reoccurrence. That grabbed my attention.

Are avocados  bad if you are ER:PR positive? How about sweet potatoes?

Coffee and avocados are good

Juneping I'm with you on that. It's sooooo hard!! :-(

thank you girls....

the chips were very tasty....i savored every piece of them.