Don’t underestimate the power of our natural food when it comes to fighting cancer. People in the past have mostly eaten raw natural and organic food which is an entirely different dietary concept to the one we have today. Our natural food is medicine and a strict diet enables the body to cure itself of cancer as it strengthens the immune system and allows the body to heal.

When a close friend and neighbour was diagnosed with cancer and not given a very bright future, she came to me for assistance to help her overcome the problem. This is the approach we took to beat the disease. We long knew that orthodox treatments were not very effective as a cancer cure as they were only treating the symptoms of the problem and also none of their treatments would stop the cancer from returning or spreading.

Our neighbour made three important changes to her lifestyle and they were with the food she ate, the many chemicals she had been using and she also started exercising. These changes were designed to strengthen her immune system. Cancer is simply a disease of a weak immune system which because it had been weakened through the way we live, especially with our wrong foods choices, allows normal body cells to mutate or change and become cancerous. The obvious way and the safest way to become cancer free is to strengthen the immune system and only natural living can do that.

How is the food we choose to eat related to cancer? When man processes food and to help it sell, he knows we all have a craving for three things, fat, salt and refined sugar and those three items are found in nearly all processed food and are all known contributors to cancer. Whereas freshly grown food is medicine we take when we are well in order to stay well as it keeps our immune system strong and functioning efficiently.

It’s only very recently we have seen research into food and how it is related to cancer. Phytochemicals have been discovered in many fruit and vegetables, and these compounds have been found to have an amazing ability to stop cancer and to especially fight it once it’s established. A few examples are;

• Apples have been found to inhibit the growths in colon cancer by 43%. They contain a phytochemical which was found only in the skin of the apple.

• Red grapes have a powerful phytochemical called resveratrol which is well known to have anti cancer properties. Resveratrol is also in red wine and when drunk in moderation can be beneficial.

• Cruciferous vegetables in which broccoli is one of them, all contain important anti cancer compounds and recent research has found overwhelming evidence to support this.

• Tomatoes contain the phytochemical called lycopene and are the compound responsible for its bright red colour and its anti cancer potential. It has been especially beneficial to both prostrate and breast cancer patients.

Why haven’t we been told about the cancer fighting ability of our natural food? The answer is very simple, food is a natural product and it is only competition within that industry that controls the price of it where as drugs to treat cancer are synthesised or artificial and can be patented and that removes the competition so the price can then be controlled by the manufacture themselves. Conventional cancer treatments today using these drugs represent a multi billion dollar a year industry. These vast profits are fiercely protected by these industry giants.

The diet which was used to overcome cancer was freshly grown and "in season" fruit for breakfast. That is the perfect food to start the day. Lunch at midday was always a fresh salad and there is plenty to choose from there. It was highly recommended that garlic and beetroot be part of that. For the evening meal, the options could be something cooked and that could be either pumpkin soup or lightly steamed fresh vegetables and boiled potatoes.

Strict diets similar to this are the same as used by all natural cancer clinics today and they have a far higher success rate that our current system of toxic treatments. What this diet does is to correct the reasons why the cancer first grew.

The human body is a wonderful self-healing organism when it has the right environment and only you can provide that.