Food is Medicine
The foods you eat and do not eat dramatically influence your health, including quality of life plus survival with, through, and beyond cancer.
Scientific findings tell why and how. Your diet immensely defines your internal environmental throughout your physical body to alter your genes. Some foods kill cancer cells and others promote cancer cell growth. Learning differences with consistent choices for cancer fighting foods is one of the most proactive self-care actions for you to feel better and live longer.
Diet affects cancer both directly and indirectly. Nutrients directly impact the mechanisms by which cancer cells grow and spread. They indirectly help control the cancer by changing the surrounding biochemical conditions that either encourage or discourage the progression of malignant disease.” — Keith Block MD
Remember that every single day, you can consume healthy nutrition. Give yourself your own medicine through these powerful cancer fighting foods. This list comes from massively extensive research shared in Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD and Harnessing the Power of Your Diet Against Cancer: Report of Translational Research by Jeanne Wallace, PhD, CNC of Nutritional Solutions.
Featured Nutritional Resources
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The website of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics provides a wealth of information related to food, health and fitness. The website includes articles, recipes, videos and a search engine to find a dietitian in your area.
Remission Nutrition
Remission Nutrition, a dedicated advocate for holistic well-being, offers specialized nutrition guidance tailored for individuals navigating their cancer journey. Their expert team, committed to fostering resilience, provides comprehensive support to enhance nutritional choices, promoting overall health and vitality during and after cancer treatment. Find out more on their website.
The Peaceful belly
Erin Costa is a Certified Health Coach & Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Through Integrative Nutritional Therapy she guides those ready to transform their relationship with food and live a healthier, more balanced life.
Erin is passionate about helping people make the connection between gut health and overall wellness. On her website The Peaceful Belly she shares her favorite recipes and lifestyle tips! Empowering you to reclaim your health using real food as medicine.
Produce with A Purpose
Kerin Gould (Wellness Within Farm to Fork Cooking Instructor) shares recipes and tips that are “stupid easy, madly tasty and secretly healthy” on the farm website. "For those that are looking to incorporate more plant-based foods into their diet, Kerin offers more information and delicious ways to enjoy them in her e-book, "Produce with a Purpose: So Your Doctor Told You to Eat More Produce...Now What?"
Known for her book, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen, a resource infused with fantastic taste that features 150 science-based, nutrient-rich recipes. Rebecca offers great more great resources on her website.
The Truffled Pig
Nourishing recipes from a young adult advanced stage lymphoma cancer survivor, cooking hobbyist, healthy lifestyle advocate, athletic enthusiast, and college educated health practitioner. Explore real food, nutrition, and wellness from the Truffled Pig.
Local Nutritional Resources
Placer Grown - Provides schedule and locations of Farmers' Markets plus lists of food such as fruits, vegetables, and other items in seasons.
Blue Acres - Newcastle, CA - Family owned blueberry farm, grown naturally.
Hillview Farms - Auburn, CA -A small neighborhood farm offering seasonal vegetables and flowers.
Sinclair Family Farm - Auburn, CA - Offers naturally grown and pasture raised beef, chicken, lamb and pork. Also, sells cage free pastured raised eggs.
Stores with Locally Grown Produce
Natural Foods Co-op - Sacramento, CA
Newcastle Produce - Newcastle, CA
Whole Foods - Sacramento, Roseville & Folsom, CA
The resources and information listed here is NOT an endorsement of those individuals or practices, but simply resources we found useful for our clientele. We receive no fee for maintaining lists of resources and information. It is the responsibility of anyone utilizing this information to fully research the resources provided.