When it comes to protecting your body against cancer, food matters far more than most people realize.

What we eat every day can either help build a strong, clean internal environment that supports health, or it can contribute to the toxic burden and nutritional deficiencies that weaken the body over time. The good news is that even small changes in the right direction can begin to make a real difference.

Use food as your weapon in the battle against cancer:

Stick with the basics. A lifestyle to keep you clean and non-toxic starts with clean natural food. This means avoiding all processed foods.

Keep your bloodstream alkaline. Cancer loves an acidic bloodstream. Clean food that includes lots of vegetables and some fruit will help keep the pH level of your blood in the alkaline range.

Cook your food properly to retain nutrients. Foods that have become toxic from high heat and have had their nutrients destroyed by the microwave are no use to us. Keep cooking temperatures as low as possible and avoid using a microwave.

Eat raw foods. Raw vegetables, nuts, seeds, coconut and fruit are more beneficial than their cooked counterparts.

Eat organic. Consuming food laden with herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and other dangerous chemicals can turn us toxic and create acidity in the bloodstream. Eating for cancer prevention means consuming clean and natural food.

Eat local. Food that is close to its source has travelled less and will retain more health building nutrients and anti-oxidants.

Consume organic and free-range grass fed meat where possible. Cavemen would have consumed animals that had lived off the land and eaten the foods that were natural to them. This would have kept animals in a perfectly healthy state. Non-organic meat can contain dangerous and toxic chemicals as well as the animals that may have been farmed in a non-humane “cruel” way that is simply not acceptable to the majority of us.

Choose cancer-fighting foods

Your immune system keeps you healthy by identifying and fighting off unwanted invaders in your system, including cancer cells. There are many things you can eat to maximize the strength of your immune system, as well as many cancer-fighting foods. But keep in mind that there is no single miracle food or ingredient that will protect you against cancer. Eating a colorful variety gives you the best protection.

Boost your antioxidants. Antioxidants are powerful vitamins that protect against cancer and help the cells in your body function optimally. Vegetables and fruits are the best sources of antioxidants such as beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium.

Eat a wide range of brightly colored vegetables which are rich in phytochemicals, a potent disease-fighting and immune-boosting nutrient. The greater the variety of colors that you include the more you will benefit, since different colors are rich in different phytochemicals.

Flavour with immune-boosting spices and foods. Garlic, ginger, and curry powder not only add flavour, but they add a cancer-fighting punch of valuable nutrients. Other good choices include turmeric, basil, rosemary, and coriander. Use them in soups, salads, casseroles, or any other dish.

One of the most important things to understand is that the body is always listening to what we feed it. Every meal is either helping to strengthen the terrain of the body or weakening it. Food is not just calories; it is information. It can help reduce inflammation, support the immune system and provide the nutrients the body needs to repair and protect itself. Over time, these daily choices add up and can make a tremendous difference to long-term health.

It is also important to understand that building a healthier way of eating does not have to happen all at once. In fact, it usually works better when changes are made gradually and consistently. Small changes such as replacing processed snacks with fresh fruit, adding more vegetables to meals, or drinking more clean water each day can begin to shift the body in a healthier direction. |

These simple steps may seem minor, but done consistently they become powerful.

To make the changes in your lifestyle eating it is important to remember that it is not just a quick “one time only” fix. It is something you will be working on for the rest of your life. The advantage of this is that you get better at it and it gets easier.

You might start off with 20 percent compliance (or even less) to a healthy eating plan but over time you increase this percentage. It may end up at 80 percent compliance which is a very healthy level to aim for. It still gives some “wiggle room” for going out to dinner, to a party or going on holiday. It simply gives you the freedom to eat anything you like. It may not be like it is now, eating whatever, whenever but eating this way is very doable.

Another key point is that prevention is always easier than repair. Once the body has become overloaded with toxins, inflammation and nutritional deficiencies, it has to work much harder to restore balance. A clean, natural diet helps support the body before disease has a chance to gain ground. This is why learning to eat well is not just about avoiding illness, it is about creating an internal environment where health has the best chance to thrive.

If your current diet has a high percentage of processed, refined foods that is going to become a major disease risk factor for you, we need to get to work changing the ratio and swapping out this non-nutrient food and replacing it with REAL FOOD.

When you do this you can improve health and lose weight without having to eat less. Simply by making smarter food choices it really is a lifestyle change that leads to healthy, steady weight loss and healthy eating for life.|

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