Cancer: an uncontrolled division of cells resulting in a malignant growth or tumour. In other words, an illness that can destroy someone’s immune system in years, months or even weeks. With 200 different types, 1 in 2 people living in the UK will be diagnosed with at least one form of cancer in their life time. This exceptionally large number unfortunately resulted in approximately 163,444 deaths in 2014. Thankfully, with today’s intelligence we can treat this nasty illness. It is normal to automatically think of chemotherapy as being the most efficient treatment; for most cancers it is. However, there have been many ideas introduced to persuade cancer patients to consider other treatments along with chemotherapy. These treatments include: …show more content…
Having a balanced diet is vital for good health and wellbeing as it provides our bodies with energy which cancer patients undoubtedly need. As we already know, chemotherapy weakens the body and ruins the appetite so throughout cancer treatment patients should be extremely careful with what their meals contain as there are many foods that can feed and strengthen cancer cells (refined sugar or dairy products), foods that can cause cancer (fatty acids or any processed food) or food that distracts the immune system from focusing on killing these specific cancer cells (beef or turkey). Consequently, it is necessary for people to eat as much healthy food as they can to maintain their weight, muscle and healthy body fat. There are parts of the diet that are full of nutrients which help by stopping the spread of cancer cells or killings them, these foods are mostly combinations of fresh and raw fruits and vegetables. Juicing or blending: berries, carrots, greens (broccoli, avocado, cabbage, kale, asparagus and spinach) and beetroot has benefits of providing patients with needed nutrients which also have anti-cancer properties that work very well with chemotherapy. These nourishments will help the patient to become stronger and help chemotherapy to work correctly with every part of the body receiving all the