What is a healthy diet?

Why is diet so important?

Healthy eating habits help prevent cancer, but they also help achieve a successful outcome for cancer treatment. A healthy diet delivers nutrients that boost the effectiveness of cancer therapy, reduce the side effects, and protect healthy cells against the damaging effects of the treatment. You will feel better, suffer less from nausea and fatigue, and recover faster after an operation or a course of chemo.

Your body needs nutrients to destroy cancer cells. Some foods boost your immune system and inhibit the growth of cancer cells, while others undermine your immunity and stimulate the growth of cancer cells.

Foods can be divided into two categories: foods that feed cancer (stimulate growth) and foods that starve cancer (inhibit growth). No one food from the first category will make tumours grow all on its own, and no one food from the second category will shrink tumours all by itself. It’s all about the balance, which should be tilted as much as possible towards the second category.

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