Avoiding cancer with food choices
Let’s talk about food & avoiding cancer. Is there a correlation? Some think so. For the purposes of this post, let’s assume the two are connected and that making some food and nutrition choices can help to avert the “C” word.
Well, we know red wine helps. That’s been proven, but it doesn’t fit into a macrobiotic diet – one that embraces Asian theories of yin & yang – negative & positive energies at work to balance your body. It typically consists of a well-balanced diet with high fiber, low fat, lots of vegetables and grains, vegetable protein, and limited meat, with an emphasis on eating seasonal organic food and is said to reduce your chances of getting the big C. It’s perfect food is brown rice, allegedly balanced 50/50 with yin * yang.
Unfortunately, things like wine and coffee are out (booooo!). There is no refined sugar in this diet & it seems that flour is a no-no. Here’s a list of macrobiotic super-food do’s: http://www.macrobiotics.co.uk/superfoods
I don’t really understand how locally grown, neighborhood-sustaining foods help with yin * yang, except maybe you’re not getting the energy of the icky exhaust of the 18-wheeler that transported your lettuce from Central America to the Whole Foods distribution center, and then eventually to your neighborhood shop.
Last year, the World Cancer Research Fund deemed bacon, hot dogs, sandwich meat, and virtually all meat in frozen prepared meals too dangerous for human consumption, because of their sodium nitrate.
OK, let’s review since I’d make a horrible C patient, totally uninspiring and probably just whine constantly about how I was once pretty. No bacon, coffee or wine. Lots of brown rice & leafy grains. Fish is OK, but now I am wondering about what fish my fish ate (yin *yang) – was it predatory in nature, and if so, will I get aggressive after a tuna salad?
Unfortunately, things like wine and coffee are out (booooo!). There is no refined sugar in this diet & it seems that flour is a no-no. Here’s a list of macrobiotic super-food do’s: http://www.macrobiotics.co.uk/superfoods
I don’t really understand how locally grown, neighborhood-sustaining foods help with yin * yang, except maybe you’re not getting the energy of the icky exhaust of the 18-wheeler that transported your lettuce from Central America to the Whole Foods distribution center, and then eventually to your neighborhood shop.
Last year, the World Cancer Research Fund deemed bacon, hot dogs, sandwich meat, and virtually all meat in frozen prepared meals too dangerous for human consumption, because of their sodium nitrate.
OK, let’s review since I’d make a horrible C patient, totally uninspiring and probably just whine constantly about how I was once pretty. No bacon, coffee or wine. Lots of brown rice & leafy grains. Fish is OK, but now I am wondering about what fish my fish ate (yin *yang) – was it predatory in nature, and if so, will I get aggressive after a tuna salad?
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