What foods are you eating to reduce recurrence?

Hi Lala and Fourminor. Good to know Mg helps with hot flashes too. Might get those if I'm put on Tamoxiflen or other.

What are PUFA's?

I have a question for any of you who take tumeric (curcumin) w/black pepper capsules. I have always ordered mine online, and they're pretty expensive, depending on where you order them from. Is this available from someplace like Krogers, CVS, Walgreens, reasonably cheap? If you have an inexpensive source for purchasing this, I'd love to hear from you. AND, is it really necessary to purchase curcumin capsules, or would a person do just as well to buy curcumin, add black pepper, mix, and ingest? I wouldn't really think there would be that much of a difference, except for the big expense of buying them already in capsule form, although I don't know the ratio to use for mixing. Also, do you think it's okay to take 2-3 capsules/day (750 mg each) or is that too much? What is recommended dosage/day, and should it also be taken with olive oil? Lots of questions--would love some help. Thanks. Ann

Teakie88--I've been taking turmeric for my joint pain for about 1 1/2 years and just buy mine off Amazon. I don't know enough about all this stuff to make my own! When my holistic doc put me on it, he said I could take up to 3 550mg capsules a day but to start with one, wait a month, and if it didn't help, to increase. I took one a day along with 550mg capsule of ginger. Within 2 weeks my pains were totally gone, so I have stuck with that dosage. He did tell me that he preferred I take Gaia Turmeric as he knows the ingredients are ok, and it has the proper balance of black pepper. I don't take mine with olive oil (never heard of that), just with all my other supplements every morning with my breakfast.

hi all

any thoughts on raw vs cooked flax seeds.

Thank you

tamoxifen side effects sounds like menopause so i was looking to improve my diet as i adjusted to the tamox.. this is what i found and questions myself about the info and phytoestrogens in particlular

~~~~An interesting little seed, flax lowers cholesterol and discourages tumors. It's been used as both food and medicine for thousands of years, and it contains phytoestrogen lignans in great quantity—75 to 800 times as much as other plants. Flaxseed also has an omega-3 fatty acid—alpha-linolenic acid—that clears obstructions from arteries. Grind the flaxseeds before ingesting them (or else they'll just pass through undigested), and sprinkle a quarter teaspoon on a slice of whole wheat bread or a salad. You can work up to a teaspoon a day—in, clinical trials, women with high risks of breast cancer are taking up to 2 tablespoons daily.~~~~

have i been dr google silly ?

I put 2 tablespoons of fresh ground flaxseed in my daily breakfast smoothie, both to help prevent a BC recurrence and to keep me regular. It is definitely a good source of fiber. A small coffee grinder works great for grinding flax seed.

I also bake Paleo/gluten free bread with flax meal (pre-ground flax). It tastes pretty good, but I don't know if cooked flaxseed is supposed to have the same BC preventive qualities as the raw seeds.

Another way to eat flaxseeds that I find enjoyable is to keep a small dish on my desk and in the car and when I think of it I get a very tiny amount--maybe 10 seeds at a time and suck on them and then chew them. It keeps my mouth busy and prevents me from chewing the sides of my mouth, a nervous habit I've had for years and it's making wrinkles, so flax is better I'd say.

Cindy (cbaird99) - thank you for your reply regarding fresh turmeric! It tastes soooo much better than the powdered stuff - and who really knows what is mixed in with the powdered stuff anyway!!! So far, I have only used it in homemade salad dressing, but I would be very happy to try it in a smoothie, too! My husband is also enjoying the flavour, so it's all good! I have planted even more of it and look forward to it being large enough to harvest! I am also interested in it acting as an anti-inflammatory - your idea about putting it in icecube trays is great - I will have to do that, too! All the best, Karen

Newbe6--Maybe this will help.

Turmeric | Food for Breast Cancer

Can Turmeric Slow Down the Spread of Breast Cancer? | Dr. Nalini Chilkov

The Effect of Curcumin on Breast Cancer Cells

Harvest the Power of Curcumin To Kill Breast Cancer Cells | MarnieClark.com

I made a great Kale Salad a couple weeks ago. No meat, but it was filling and delish!

Ninetwelve, I eat a lot of fat. Most of the fat I eat is olive oil, second comes nuts. I like almonds and walnuts and eat quite a lot of them.

There is some research to suggest that a low-fat diet may help women with triple-negative breast cancer. other than that, they will sometimes advise against a lot of fat, in order to keep people slender, since it is thought that being slender is generally a good thing for BC patients. So, it is not because the fat itself is bad, but because a high-fat diet is more likely to make you, well, fat. But my BC is not 3-neg, so I continue on with my olive oil. Besides, without the added fat, I would not be able to keep my weight on.

That said, fat from animal sources, including dairy fat, is probably not super-great for us. I have cut way back on cheese, sadly, and things like butter and cream are pretty much history in my diet.

Thanks, Momine and yoga_girl. From what I could gather from those articles, I don't see a need to cut all the fat out of my diet. I think I would just be replacing it with starches or sugars, and that wouldn't be any better for me. I'm not overweight at this point, having lost eighteen pounds in the first four months after my diagnosis.

Last night I watched the Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2 documentary. It was kind of touching to see the people getting together to bring the fresh food message out, creating community gardens and juice bars, and losing weight and poor health symptoms in the process.

I don't think I could face all the work and clean-up of juicing, by myself, with no dishwasher. But green smoothies are pretty healthy, too, and you drink the fiber, which couldn't hurt.

Wasn't going to have a smoothie this morning for breakfast, but you talked me into it. : )

Frozen blueberries make it purple!

Exactly, labelle, I am worried about satiety. There is no way I can stay on a diet that leaves me hungry all the time.

I just bought a nut milk bag, because, while I enjoy almond milk, I don't enjoy the prices of storebought, or the packaging waste I am creating, or the carbon footprint of shipping those containers of mostly water and rice starch. And maybe carrageenan is bad for us, or maybe it's not, but I don't think I want to take the chance on it.

I should probably post this in What's For Dinner, but does anyone have any tips for making nut milk? Or general tips for transitioning from convenience food to plant food based eating. (I live alone and I am not much of a cook, and even when I do make something, I often end up throwing away a lot of food because I can't prepare and eat it all before it goes bad.)