The word SUPERFOOD. It is used way too much, thrown around by marketers. According to them, everything is a super food and we should all be super, but for some reason we are all fat, sick and dying.
I saw on a potato box recently, “Super food Potatoes!”. POTATOES are not a super food!!! They are super at filling up your stomach if you’re starving, and they taste good, but there isn’t a lot of nutritional value.
As a general rule I have about my food, is that it has to be Organic. There are too many chemicals out there in the food industry for me to trust. Countless chemicals are banned in Europe and other countries, that the US allows. Organic is always better than non organic, but I don’t know what’s available where you live. As long as you are keeping it real with yourself, do the best you can and don’t stress about it (as you know, stress is horrible for you).
I generally eat everything cooked and not raw. I know there is some debate out there over that, when it comes to anti cancer diets. This is the logic that I subscribe to. Cooked food is broken down and more easily digestible. You do lose a bit of nutritional value in the cooking of the food, but if you are absorbing more of it, I feel you are better off. Plus, I can’t think of one person who is on chemo, whose gut bacteria and digestive system isn’t being nuked. Easier to digest equals big win for the digestive system and you.
Generally, the only thing that I eat raw, is vegetable juice, which has broken down already by the juicer and there is big loss in benefit in heating the juice.
Breakfast
I make a mix of oatmeal, amaranth and quinoa as my base. Oats help renew bones and connective tissues. They help with digestion and help remove unwanted things on their way out. Amaranth is an ancient Latin America and African seed. High in protein and vitamins. It has the highest protein content out of grains (although technically not a grain). Quinoa, generally strengthens the whole body. A good source of Iron, B vitamins and vitamin E.
Quick side note on iron. Iron can stimulate tumor growth. Iron based supplements should only be taken with a doctor’s guidance, to know if you are deficient (I’m personally not in favor of iron supplements). I think it’s been pretty well proven at this point that red meat based iron can easily feed cancer cells, because it’s very absorbable. Plant based iron is not well absorbed, so therefor a good source of it for people who have cancer.
We need iron for our red blood cells, hemoglobin and oxygen transfers. I have had my iron tested and I’ve had no negative consequences from my plant based iron intake. My hemoglobin has always looked good (knock on wood), despite it normally being a myeloma challenge.
Sorry, back to breakfast. One cup of cooked amaranth contains nine grams of protein with quinoa not far behind. Protein among other things, is essential building block for your immune system. I’ve had numerous chemo nurses and alternative doctors (both usually from Asia), grind me about getting enough protein. Both saying, “the ones who usually make it from cancer (and more recently from covid), are the ones getting sufficient amounts of protein”.
An adult male, according to our wondrous USDA, needs about 50 grams of protein a day. Breakfast is a good place to start.
I have my base of oatmeal, quinoa and amaranth. I soak about ten almonds overnight. I take off the skins in the morning and add that to the pot. Removing the skins makes them easier to digest (I bet you’re starting to notice a theme). Almonds are nutritional and body building. The skins taken off feel like rough paper, no wonder they don’t digest well.
Nuts on a whole are nutritional, but are hard to digest, so I’m cautious with them. Sometimes, I’ll add in some walnuts (anti cancer), but they are very acidic, and are one of those foods that can throw a person’s body out of balance (not that I’m in balance, aiming to be), from the perspective of Ayurveda (doshas) or Chinese medicine (yin/yang).
In a separate pot, I’ll make a stew of Goji berries (iron, blood building, antioxidant), blueberries, blackberry and raspberries (antioxidants). Sometimes, I add in some seasonal fruit for variety. I’ll add some spices, notably, ginger, a digestive aid, among just being awesome. Through all my treatments, I’ve only be nauseous a couple of times and that was when my intestines were getting blasted by radiation (I don’t know who wouldn’t be nauseous from that!). I owe it all to GINGER. It’s amazing stuff, anti nausea, appetite builder, digestion aid, fever reducer and phlegm remover among other things. I drank pots of freshly made ginger tea when I had Covid and I feel it’s a large reason why I skated through the Covid infection so easily.
Next, I will freshly grind a bit of chia seeds and a good amount of flax seeds. I could classify flax as one of the mother of all super foods. These little buggers are incredible. Loaded with vitamins and minerals. They are one of the richest sources of omega 3 fatty acids, which improve immunity and clean the arteries and are a must for this diet. I freshly grind them each day, because of the oil in the seeds can become rancid after a few days and it’s just so easy to do. Also, without grinding, they would just come out the other side whole and I wouldn’t receive any benefit.
Lastly, I scoop out one tablespoon of coconut oil as a healthy fat. A few years ago, my primary doctor wanted to check my cholesterol (probably to see if I could be put on cholesterol medication). I thought it was stupid, no way I have a cholesterol problem, with the way I eat. The test came back, and it turns out I did have a problem. It wasn’t with bad cholesterol, I didn’t have enough good cholesterol! (Although, I didn’t hear that from my doctor). Daily healthy fats are essential.
I mix it all together and breakfast is served! High nutrition and body building, two things I need. Please join me.
To be continued in Part Three.
Carrots Over Cancer 
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