surviving-disease

Using nutrition to survive disease

Monthly Archive: November 2023

Cancer

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Surviving Disease – One Cancer Diet Option Along With Weight Loss

According to the CDC, just by being overweight or obese, you are at risk for 13 types of cancers which make up about 40% (684,000 people) of all cancers diagnosed in the US each year.  Being overweight or having obesity doesn’t mean that someone will definitely get cancer. But it does mean that they are more likely to get cancer than if they kept a healthy weight. In health care, we use a tool called the BMI (Body Mass Index) calculated by height and weight to determine if you are overweight (BMI of 25 to 29.9) or obese (BMI of > 30).  Being overweight and obese causes changes in the body including long-lasting inflammation, much higher than normal levels of insulin, insulin-like growth factor, insulin resistance and sex hormones. These changes may lead to cancer. The longer you are overweight and the more overweight you are, both increase your risk....

Cancer

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Surviving Cancer Part 2 – Cancer cells versus normal cells 

I promised that I would come back to tell you what I learned about cancer. Please remember to always work with your primary physician or specialist before doing anything independently.   Here we go! This is such a very technical area of cytology (how cells work). I will do my best to make it as simple as possible so that everyone will understand. I have to say that this is my most challenging post so far to explain. I want people to understand, at a very basic level, what is going on with cancerous cells.   To help you improve your understanding of a normal cell versus a cancer cell, I want to talk about how the body makes energy on a cellular level (both healthy and unhealthy cells) and where it gets its energy. There are many different types of cells in the body and different types of cancer, some are...