Some ideas to help reduce inflammation and the proliferation of tumors in your body:
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Consume more dark, leafy greens, cruciferous veggies, garlic, onions, turmeric, and green tea.
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Focus on organic, grass-fed animal products.
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Get more omega-3 by eating more fish, such as sardines, salmon, mackerel, as well as flaxseeds.
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Decrease your intake of vegetable oils, sugar, starches, and refined carbs. These foods are more inflammatory.
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Don’t smoke. Acupuncture can help you quit.
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Get a water filter or drink filtered water when possible, you can buy the best one here: http://www.multipureusa.com/ewood/index2.html
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Limit your alcohol intake, a glass of red wine at dinner is fine.
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Avoid chemicals like parabens, phthalates, pesticides (round-up), insecticides, aluminum (antiperspirants), you can check this online database to see what is really in the products you use: http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
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Exercise, even if just gently, 20 minutes per day. Try to walk more.
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Get 20 minutes of sunlight per day to boost your Vitamin D levels, along with your mood.
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Manage stress through yoga, meditation, dance, sex, whatever works for you.
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Accept and express your emotions. We all have anger, fear, sadness, it is part of being human.
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Keep in touch with friends who you can talk to, laugh with, and offer mutual support during tough times.
~Thanks to Pamela Weintraub and her cancer-fighting article in the May 2013 issue of Experience L!fe magazine and David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, who wrote Anticancer: A New Way of Life.
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