In mice with systemic metastatic cancer, a ketogenic diet fed ad libitum lowered serum glucose, slowed tumor growth and extended survival by 57%. Pairing it with hyperbaric oxygen therapy extended survival by 79.9%, while the oxygen therapy alone did not slow progression.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Brain cancer patients should avoid using vinegar?
A 2014 study in Cell found glioblastoma and brain metastases can use acetate, which vinegar contains, as an energy source. The writer suggests patients might be better off avoiding vinegar, while noting blood acetate also comes from other sources and cannot be eliminated.
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Watch: Amazing 4-minute video of family's healing through non-GMO & organic diets
An Institute for Responsible Technology appeal pointing readers to a four-minute video of mothers describing their families' recoveries after switching to non-GMO and organic diets, and asking them to share their own stories and donate.
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Vegan diet prevents prostate cancer
Among 26,346 men in the Adventist Health Study-2, those eating a vegan diet were 35 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than non-vegetarians, with a stronger effect in white men than black men. Vegans need vitamin B12 to avoid deficiency.
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Why Holiday Eating Can Be Deadly
Adhesions left by past abdominal or pelvic surgery can squeeze the intestines shut, and a large holiday meal is often the trigger. The piece follows Dorise Hunt through seven surgeries for obstructions before she turned to a non-surgical therapy, the Clear Passage Approach.
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Home enteral nutrition helps gastrointestinal cancer patients
In a trial of 79 malnourished patients who had surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer, those given home enteral nutrition held their weight while those receiving only nutritional counselling lost 3.6 kg on average over two months, and they were more likely to finish chemotherapy.
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Famine, malnutrition raise risk of breast cancer
A study in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment found that among breast cancer patients, women exposed to China's Great Famine of 1959-1961 were more likely to have ER-PR-, ER-PR+ or ER+PR- tumors than ER+PR+ tumors, particularly those exposed after a first birth.
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Mediterranean diet cuts risk of heart failure
Among 37,308 men in the Cohort of Swedish Men who were free of cardiovascular disease at baseline, high adherence to a Mediterranean diet was associated with up to 31% lower risk of developing heart failure and 45% lower risk of dying from it.
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DASH diet may cut risk of depression, metabolic syndrome
Following 14,051 people for eight years, researchers found good adherence to the DASH diet tracked with 24 to 37 percent lower depression risk, depending on how depression was defined. The association was inverse but not linear, and the authors call for more work.
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Ketogenic diet may not help fight cancer
One study found a calorie-restricted ketogenic diet slowed brain tumour growth, but a calorie-restricted ordinary diet did the same, pointing to the calorie cut rather than ketosis. Rats fed a ketogenic diet freely got no protection, and their gliomas oxidized ketone bodies.
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Plant-based diet helps prostate cancer
A 2012 case report describes a 73-year-old man in Iligan City, Philippines whose PSA fell from 24.21 to 5.29 ng/mL after ten days on a vegan diet of unpolished rice, fruit and vegetables, with no conventional treatment. His CEA dropped as well.
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Calorie-restricted ketogenic diet helps brain cancer
A 2010 case report in Nutrition & Metabolism describes a 65-year-old woman with glioblastoma who followed conventional treatment plus a 600-calorie ketogenic diet after partial resection. No tumor tissue was detectable after 20 days, but it returned 10 days after she stopped the diet.
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Antioxidants prevent aggressive prostate cancer
A Nutrition and Cancer study counting 45 antioxidants from diet and supplements found men with the highest total antioxidant capacity, equal to more than 1,500 mg of vitamin C a day, were 69 percent less likely to have aggressive prostate cancer than men below 500 mg.
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High methionine diet promotes cancer growth
A review in Cancer Treatment Reviews suggests the amino acid methionine may partly explain why high-protein, animal-heavy diets promote cancer growth. The authors say methionine-restricted diets have curbed cancer growth in animals and humans, and note vegan diets tend to be low in it.
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Ketogenic diet inhibits metastatic cancer
A 2013 PLOS One study found mice with metastatic cancer fed a ketogenic diet survived 57% longer than mice on a normal diet, and 78% longer when the diet was combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric oxygen alone did not slow the cancer.
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High salt, high sugar diet easy to induce hypertension
Rats fed 4% salt plus 20% fructose saw systolic pressure climb from 125 to 140 mmHg within a week, while rats on high salt or high fructose alone stayed near 122. The combination diet also raised urinary 8-isoprostane, a marker of oxidative stress, and increased salt retention.
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Trans fat, omega 6 fat linked to breast cancer
In the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort, high saturated fatty acids in plasma phospholipids were associated with 64% higher breast cancer risk, while omega-6 and trans fatty acids tracked with ER-negative/PR-negative tumours. Women with the most DPA, DHA and EPA were 43% less likely to be diagnosed.
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Low-fat dietary pattern cuts risk of death from breast cancer
A Women's Health Initiative analysis presented at AACR 2016 reports that a low-fat diet with more fruits, vegetables and grain products cut deaths from all causes and from breast cancer and raised 10-year survival among 48,835 postmenopausal women.
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