Most cancers require glucose to survive. Since a ketogenic diet relys on fat metabolism rather than glucose metabolism (glycogenesis vs. lipogenesis) many cancer tumors starve to death or have their growth dramatically slowed. Lot's of research. A very low carb diet can produce this and can be vegetarian or even vegan if so desired.Google `Flexi Diet' .
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > On 11/02/2011 06:19 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@> wrote: > > >> Interesting article on Steve Jobs dietary quirks (not too unlike some > > >> quirks people have here) and comments by nutritional experts: > > >> http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/02/8598251-the-strange-eating-habits-of-steve-jobs > > >> > > > Lots and lots of speculation going on. The fruitarians are saying he'd > > > have never gotten cancer if only he'd stuck to fruitarianism all along. > > > The low-carbers think he should have ditched all the cancer-food carbs > > > and switched to a ketogenic diet. I'd side with the ketogenic diet over > > > fruitarianism, but I really think he should have jumped at the chance to > > > have that rare, survivable fucker cut out of his body early, when he had > > > the chance. > > > > > > A friend of mine in FF was diagnosed with ovarian cancer early enough > > > that she would have likely survived had she gotten surgery. But, she > > > opted for a yearlong death spiral, doing all sorts of new-age alternative > > > nonsense. Honestly, I think she really just wanted outta here. > > > > My brother was never into anything new age but came down with colon > > cancer at age 52. The last few months he was into trying anything but I > > knew it was too late. Now if he had just eaten the diet he was eating > > in his last few months he may have never gotten cancer in the first place. > > > > It is not only diet that is causing cancer. Lot's of vegetarians die of > cancer. > > In the seventies, I remember science teachers saying cancers would be > creeping up in the next twenty years or later because of all the nuclear > testings and bombs dropped, etc. I buy this story before the belief that > diet causes cancer. > Although, I do believe relief can be had for any ailment with a healthy diet > and make life feel a bit better. Diet takes the blame out of all the > government testings, thereby liability is passed to the individual exposed to > all the crap. > Another theory is our lives have changed so much due to work, environment, > moving around etc., that the body is trying to adapt by evolving at an > accelerated rate (evolution gone haywire), increasing the incidences of > cancer tumors, (they do grow their own supply of veins). Somewhere, there is > an article on the net supporting the later and it made sense. it is not a > mystery black mass like in one of the Hollywood movies I saw. lol... > I can't find it right now. >
