Can nutrition reverse cancer, diabetes, and heart disease?
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Losing weight can help reduce the severity of diabetes for some people. Cancer and heart disease require medical treatment, not dietary changes.
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sure diabetes can be controled with the proper amount of meat, fruit,veg. and with pills. one half cup of this--one half cup of that. calories
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The chances of getting cancer can be minimized by good nutrition. Once the person has cancer, it's sometimes difficult to say what will happen. But treatment requires chemo and/or radiotherapies, but good nutrition is very important still! Diabetes is manageable by good nutrition. The complications of diabetes arise from having too much glucose in blood, if that is controlled, the person will live a normal healthy life. Heart disease is no exception. Once again, the chances of getting a heart disease can be drastically decreased by good nutrition. And once the person gets a heart disease, depending on it's severity, treatment can vary from lifestyle/nutritional changes (start to exercise, eating better food), to medication, to all the way to heart surgery! Also, do not forget that genetics play a big role in all of the above. Some people have genetics that increase their risk of getting either cancer, diabetes, or heart disease, while others have the opposite.
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A healthy diet and lifestyle can reduce your risk of: * Heart disease, heart attacks, and stroke * Conditions that lead to heart disease, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity * Other chronic health problems, including type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and some forms of cancer
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Yes it can . Good nutrition can also prevent the diseases ( plus many others ) in the first place. These conditions are brought on by poor diet. For example, the incidence of colo-rectal cancers is high in North America but low in Asia. It has been proven that the western dietary emphasis on meat products is the culprit in this case. Asians traditionally have eaten little red meat. Dubious dietary choices also are factors with heart disease and diabetes. Here again, the instigators are excessive animal product, processed food, and fat consumption So it is not unreasonable to assume that these ailments can also be corrected by diet. But this has to be a good one. Not the usual garbage peddled by the giant agribusiness/chemical industries, but rather an emphasis on whole, mainly vegetarian foods, as close to their original form as possible. Raw is the key word here. Little if any processed food. A higher proportion of alkaline foods over acidic ones. I believe that if the population affected by these ailments even only partially adopted some of these sensible dietary guidelines, then the illnesses in question would no longer have such catastrophic consequences for so many. However, as long as officials, the medical industry and the media continually parrot the "health" benefits of animal foods to the credulous public, plus the unproven treatment approach to illness, then practical nutritional advice will continue to take a backseat to profit margins.
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Diabetes is not reversible, but can often be controlled by diet. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a year ago. I had a healthy diet - no animal products, high in organic fruit and veg, low fat most of the time, low in processed food. It's thought possible, though it can't be said for sure, that my diabetes was triggered by the steroids given with chemotherapy. Since diagnosis I've followed a diet that is low GI as well as consistently low fat. The changes to my already pretty healthy diet were small, but significant. My blood glucose levels have been well within normal range as a result. So although I can't consider my diabetes cured - if I was to abandon the diet I now follow my blood glucose levels would start to spike again, and I'll always have to be alert for various symptoms of diabetes - it barely affects my life now, and so in a sense it has been 'reversed'. I can't agree that diet is a cause of cancer; as well as there being no scientific proof, my own experience tells me it isn't the case. I have followed a healthy diet for much of my life, I've been vegetarian/almost vegan for most of my life and vegan for 14 years. I was diagnosed with cancer after 8 years as a vegan, at the age of 50. My diet had not prevented it, nor had it stopped it reaching stage 3 and spreading to several lymph nodes. Clearly, as it reached stage 3, a healthy diet didn't cure or reverse the cancer once it had started, and I have to conclude I'd be foolish to rely on it preventing recurrence or metastases. I know very little about heart disease so won't comment on that
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