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Originally Posted by WereBear
Apparently they do when someone is about to enter chemotherapy. And yet this is not splashed across the entire internet as a breakthrough. And not considered for prevention.
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I knew two people back in the 00's who died from cancer - both had been put on a raw food diet to supposedly stop the cancer.
The one said she was allowed some foods that were slightly heated - basically just enough to take the chill off, not enough to actually cook them.
The other was consuming mostly juiced vegetables and fruits (she had a juicer - went through about 50 lbs of organic carrots a couple of times weekly, in addition to whatever other organic fruits and veggies they could obtain). The rationale behind the juice diet was that it was supposedly easier to absorb the nutrients from fruits and vegetables without needing to actually digest any other parts of the food. (That one was also on coffee enemas - supposedly to remove toxins that were causing the cancer)
Either way, both were getting nothing but carbs, and neither was eating any meat at all - these diets were the opposite of low carb - they were both nothing but carbs, and the juice diet in the simplest form of carbs.
They might have fared better on a ketogenic diet... or perhaps not, because in both cases, the cancer had already metastasized all through their bodies, and was into all their organs by the time they discovered they had cancer or received any treatment at all.
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I've long wondered if people have increasing trouble digesting actual food, since they eat so much which has been essentially "pre-chewed" and already broken down. Digestive aids are a giant part of prescription drug use.
DH had been on proton pump inhibitors with his illness, and as they reported more side effects with it, we switched him to Betaine HCL, digestive supplements, and pro-biotics. He's lost weight and his high blood pressure meds.
But his stomach needed a lot of help to get back to actual normal; able to digest larger portions of meat and fat. I'm sure he's not the only one.
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Basically, our collective digestion is a mess - the proton pump inhibitors are dealing with a problem that starts in the stomach. They used to tell people to make sure they don't recline or lie down for a certain amount of time after eating, and to stop eating foods that caused acid reflux. Now there's a drug to take care of that problem.
There's two opposite forces in the food industry to deal with the other end of the digestive tract - the push for more and more fiber in your diet to keep you "regular", while at the same time more and more junk food devoid of any fiber so that you need a fiber supplement or a laxative - there's always coupons available for Miralax and Metamucil - opposite treatments of the irregularity spectrum, both with their own problems.
And let's not forget the foods that are also geared towards correcting these problems, such as Activia yogurts.