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FIBROCYSTIC BREAST CONDITION DIET 

​REMOVE OFFENDING FOODS

For natural healing, a complete program is necessary.  A natural way to relieve the pain caused by Fibrocystic Breast Condition (FBC) requires not only avoiding foods that cause allergies, but also following a complete and balanced nutritional program that includes exercise, relaxation, social harmony and contentment.  In short, a lifestyle in line with natural living - are necessary for complete healing of FBC through natural means.
 
If health means wholeness, then we must eat clean, nutrient-rich foods, avoid foods that cause allergies, drink clean water, breathe clean air, be active, develop harmonious relationships, live in harmony with our environment, and feel content with life.
 
The following recommendations, however, will only concentrate on dietary strategies for healing FBC, particularly foods that cause allergies and what offending foods to remove from your diet.
 
The following nutritional strategies are easy to do.  It was very important for me to apply a doable and tasty diet for my own healing. Avoiding food that cause allergies and following this nutritional program worked to completely heal my FBC condition and I’m now experiencing a good state of health.  You need to read the following nutritional strategies and apply what is doable for you in your own lifestyle.  

Below are a list of foods that should be avoided because they cause food allergies leading to an imbalanced immune system.  When you remove these offending foods from your diet negative reactions diminish and so does the FBC symptoms. ​ 
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REMOVE STRONG ACID PRODUCING FOODS

Remove strong acid producing foods such as beef, chicken and pork for at least 90 days and if you become successful at doing this, then set another goal for an additional 90 days - soon you won’t miss these foods. 
 
If you must eat some of these meats, at least reduce the amounts significantly.  If you don’t have a list of alkaline and acid foods, contact me and I’ll email you this list.
 
Many of the health models in our society today recommend eating a high-protein diet, or specifically as, Dr. Gabriel Cousens M.D., calls it a flesh-centered diet.  It is true that this type of diet may make you feel good initially, because it helps to balance the blood sugar, but you have to understand that there is also a stimulating effect from the adrenaline released by the animal flesh.

Animal flesh also has a high concentration of uric acid, which is close to caffeine in chemical structure, and may also have a stimulatory effect.  Initially these effects may seem beneficial.  After several months on a high-protein diet, some people begin to feel toxified and arthritic.  This is usually because it takes a few months to experience the full effects of the toxic load that comes from the high-protein diet (acid-ash producing foods).
 
Beef, pork and chicken are some of the most acidifying foods and I recommend you avoid them as you move forward in your healing program.  If you cannot avoid meat in your diet, at least try to reduce the number of times meat is consumed from daily to twice weekly.  Then once weekly!  Also, try to make certain that when you buy your beef, pork or chicken, that it is organically fed, free-range, and free of antibiotics and growth hormones.
 
You noticed that I didn’t include fish in this list.  Fish is also an acid producing food, but it can also provide some valuable nutrients if consumed once in a while, especially oily fish.  Unlike beef, pork and chicken, fish is a good source for strengthening bones with its high content of essential fatty acids, calcium and vitamin D.  Essential fatty acids are important nutrients for your health as a sinusitis patient.
 
An ideal diet should be proportioned at 70 percent alkalizing foods, and 30 percent acidifying foods.  The body needs more alkalizing foods than acidifying foods.  It really is as simple as that.

REMOVE DAIRY

Remove all dairy products (cheese and milk).  A common offending food among those with EBC is dairy, particularly cheese and milk produced from cows.  This is because the protein molecules are large and more difficult to digest.  Cheese and milk are also acid producing foods.  If you cannot avoid them, then buy raw goat milk cheese (the soft kind) or raw goat milk.  Raw goat-based foods leave alkaline ash residue.  Try non-dairy milks.  These are made from rice or nuts.  Do not use soy milk as it will disrupt mineral absorption in your digestive tract.

AVOID HIGH-GLYCEMIC GRAINS

Avoid grains that are considered high-glycemic foods.  They force a sharp rise in insulin production, as their sugars are absorbed by the intestines too quickly and cause a hormonal imbalance in the body. Examples of high-glycemic grains are corn chips, instant processed grain mixes (i.e., puffed wheat), cakes, pies, pastry, processed breakfast cereals, instant grain cereals, white rice and flour pastas.

Avoid breads made from flour. People can have negative reactions to
bread because breads ferment in our bodies, and become food for germs and fungus normally present in the intestine. Germs and fungus will produce alcohol from breads. If you eat a lot of bread, your body can make up to half an ounce of alcohol in your intestine every day.  Alcohol  is toxic because it interferes with many different enzymes in your body.  Alcohol has a particularly bad effect on a group of enzymes that are the  main workers in the body’s detoxification system.  Alcohol also interferes with the activity of key enzymes in the transformation of fatty acids into hormones.  This is one of the main reasons why people who daily eat a lot of bread or drink alcoholic beverages, may have hormonal imbalances (Baker, pp. 30-31).
 
It may be prudent to consume types of bread that cause less negative reactions.  These are sprouted breads. Try unleavened breads that contain no flour, sugars or oils, and only include the fiber and germ of the whole grain.  They are made from sprouted grains, slightly chopped, molded to a loaf and either sun-dried or baked at a very low temperature.  The grains are usually some combination of sprouted spelt, millet, flax, oats, kamut, amaranth or quinoa.

REMOVE HYDROGENATED OILS

Remove hydrogenated oils and margarine from your diet.   These foods have been altered to the point where they are labeled “plastic foods”.  Simply put, the hydrogenation process ruins the foods’ nutritional value. Avoid them completely. Use the following healthy oils for your salads or for cooking your meals:
 
Cold preparation (condiments and salad dressings - 120F/49C):  Flax seed oil, hemp seed oil, or walnut oil.
 
Low heat (Sauces and baking - 212F/100C): Safflower oil, sunflower oil and pumpkin oil.
 
Medium heat (Light sauteing - 325F/163C):  Sesame oil, almond oil or olive oil.
                      
High heat (Browning or frying - 375F/190C):  Coconut oil or ghee (clarified butter).
 
Do your best to always use unrefined cold-pressed organic oils.

AVOID NON-FOODS

Avoid non-foods (i.e. salt, alcohol, regular and decaffeinated coffee and tea, regular and diet soft drinks, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, food colorings, additives and man-made synthetic vitamin and mineral supplements, etc.). Avoid enriched flours, even though they may be from organic whole wheat.  The word “enriched” means synthetic vitamins and minerals are added to the food.

Avoid artificial sweeteners.  Artificial sugars are chemical additives.  They are man-made substances.  One of these well known artificial sugars, for example, is composed of three ingredients which are natural, but are never found together in nature in such a combination.  It is composed of two amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, as well as methyl alcohol, also known as methanol.
 
Methanol is a deadly metabolic poison.  One of the reasons methanol is so toxic is because the body lacks the necessary enzymes to detoxify it.  Its rate of elimination is five times slower than a similar amount of ethyl alcohol, as found in whisky, beer and wine.  For this artificial sugar to be eliminated, the body must first convert it to formaldehyde, then to formic acid and ultimately to carbon dioxide.
 
One 12 ounce can of most artificially sweetened soft drinks contain about 10 mg of methanol.  With this artificial sweetener found in over 80,000 products today, an individual can easily exceed 100 mg. daily, 13 times the limit recommended by the EPA (Gold, pp. 25-26).
 
If you must use a sweetener, use organic unprocessed sugar cane or a truly natural and healthful alternative such as the juice from the Brazilian shrub, Stevia, which is 30 to 40 times sweeter than sucrose.  Stevia has been used as a sweetener in South America for hundreds of years and in Japan for 20 years.  Two drops of the liquid extract equals one teaspoon of table sugar and is less than one calorie.  One teaspoon of finely ground Stevia powder is equivalent to one cup of sugar.

AVOID SOY PRODUCTS

Except as noted below, avoid soy products. Soy products did not serve as food until fermentation techniques were developed.  Fermented soy products have been used for many centuries in the Orient.  Precipitated (Western) soy products can cause serious health problems because most of them are not fermented.
 
Among the harmful substances in soy are potent enzyme inhibitors, which block the action of trypsin and other enzymes needed for protein digestion. Apparently, cooking does not deactivate these enzyme inhibitors, and they can produce serious digestive problems such as reduced protein digestion, chronic deficiencies in amino acid uptake, enlargement of the pancreas and cancer.  Fermentation deactivates these enzyme inhibitors.
 
Soybeans are also high in phytic acids which block the uptake of essential minerals in the intestinal tract, including such important ones as calcium, magnesium, iron and especially zinc.  Again, only the process of fermentation will significantly reduce the phytate content of soy products.
 
Avoid tofu, soy milk, soy yogurt, soy ice cream, soy cheese, soy flour for baking, and soy protein that vegetarians often use as a meat substitute.
 
Exceptions: Good soy products are fermented soy products such as tempeh, miso and tamari sauce, the type without alcohol.

NOURISH WITH WHOLE-FOODS

HEALTHY DIET FOR FIBROCYSTIC BREAST CONDITION

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This nutritional program for fibrocystic breast condition is based on the logic that the real magic bullets for reversing this condition and gaining health and vitality are in nutritional components found in foods, not pharmaceuticals (chemical, herbal or botanical formulas).  We now know scientifically that nutrients found in foods can help prevent nearly all the common degenerative diseases that strike us today.   Following this program can really make a difference for you, as it did for me! You can be assured that everything you are learning here is exactly what I have followed and still follow, and I have healed my fibrocystic breast condition! 

You have your own individual potential for health,” says Udo Erasmus, in his book, Fats that Heal - Fats that Kill.  Erasmus also explains that there are at least four reasons we can rely on ourselves to find a natural nutritional cure for fibrocystic breast condition through the foods we eat and that we are not to expect pharmaceutical drugs or even natural herbal and botanical formulas to accomplish our health goals. I also personally know this for myself, because I have spent years on natural herbal/botanical formulas for my fibrocystic breasts and allergies, with nothing getting better.

1. Health is a natural state. 

Internally, our optimum health possibility is determined by our genetic makeup, which includes complex and sophisticated digestive, absorptive, constructive, maintaining, metabolic, protective, and healing mechanisms. Because individuals differ genetically, optimal health is also somewhat different for each individual.

Externally, health is determined by the natural environment, which provides:
  1. the surroundings (setting);
  2. the building blocks from which our body is constructed and continuously reconstructed; and
  3. toxic substances that can interfere with processes that underlie health and healing (p. 414).

2. The body is made from food, water, air and light energy.

The key to effective primary health care and reversing Fibrocystic Breast Condition is found in living as we would live, if we were in an ideal natural setting, where foods are fresh, alive, raw, sun-ripened, locally grown, in season, and pesticide-free.  Water is clean.  Air is clean.  Light is full-spectrum sunlight. 

From foods, water, and air, our body must derive 50+ essential factors to function in a healthy way, factors our bodies cannot make from other substances. These include 20 or 21 minerals; 13 vitamins; 8 to 11 essential amino acids; 2 essential fatty acids; water; air; light; and a source of energy (usually carbohydrates).

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Processing removes essential nutrients from foods and may also destroy nutrients or change them into toxic substances. Deficiencies of essential nutrients and toxicity in foods have both been documented in processed foods (p.414).

3. FBC is a departure from health.

A departure from health is a departure from the ideal natural state, internally, externally, or both.

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The most common causes of Fibrocystic Breast Condition include malnutrition, (deficiency of essential substances or nutrient imbalances) and internal pollution (interfering substances such as pollutants, heavy metals, drugs, metabolic waste products, toxins produced by yeast, and toxins made in our body as a result of allergic reactions).

4. FBC can be reversed with diet change.

Reversal of Fibrocystic Breast Condition caused by malnutrition and internal pollution requires improved nutrition and detoxification.

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Nutrition can be improved by the consumption of whole foods, fresh vegetables juices, super food supplements and food concentrates.

IMPORTANT GUIDING PRINCIPLE FOR A HEALTHIER BODY

It should be kept in mind that the best Fibrocystic Breast Condition diet is one where you consume only original foods, or foods modified minimally, instead of consuming isolated or synthetic compounds (single amino acids, single essential fatty acids, vitamins or minerals). From foods, our bodies must derive all 50+ essential nutrients, on a daily basis, to function in a healthy way.  Deficiency of any of these essential nutrients can lead to degenerative processes and degenerative diseases such as Fibrocystic Breast Condition.
 
It’s difficult to define the impact of a particular nutrient on any specific disease.  The reason is that nutrients work together synergistically, not separately, to improve physiological function, reduce disease risk, and help the body defend itself against disease-producing processes.
 
For example, it has been scientifically proven through clinical research that individuals with fibrocystic breast condition appear to have deficiencies in an important nutrient such as vitamin A which support and maintain epithelial cell integrity.  Most holistic doctors will prescribe for you a single isolated vitamin A supplement. I, on the other hand, will recommend that you get your vitamin A from a food source instead.  The following will explain why I recommend that our nutrients always come from a food source.

NUTRIENTS SHOULD COME FROM A WHOLE FOOD SOURCE

SYNTHETIC VITAMIN A:

Synthetic vitamin A gives you only one form of vitamin A rather than the group of vitamins occurring naturally in a food.  In nature, vitamin A is divided into two distinct groups, classified as A-1 and A-2.  The A-1 group consists of the performed vitamins that are found in the body.  They include retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and the retinyl esters.  In the A-2 group, you will find the dehydroretinal and dehydroretinyl esters.  When a manufacturer synthesizes a single chemical structure such as a retinol or beta carotene to take the place of this whole family, there is no way that they can be “just the same” as the vitamin A in its’ natural source.  It is only a “chemical identification”.
 
Regarding beta-carotene, for example, foods contain several forms of beta-carotene itself as well as many other carotenes and other interrelated nutrients.  Most supplements contain only one form of beta-carotene, a synthetic, chemically-pure form.  Large amounts of a single form could interfere with the absorption, transport, or utilization of other forms of beta-carotene and other carotenoids. 
 
The toxicity of synthetic vitamin A is well known.  Symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dry skin, hair loss, headaches, fatigue, loss of appetite, dry or sore lips, bone abnormalities, joint pain, liver, spleen, or lymph node enlargement, reduced thyroid activity, blurred vision and edema.

NATURAL VITAMIN A:

Vitamin A is a whole family of compounds, including retinol, retinal, retinoids, carotenes, and carotenoids, and always occurs in nature with synergists such as fatty acids, chlorophyll, other vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and trace elements.  Scientists have identified more than 600 carotenoids so far, and are beginning to realize and admit that “there appears to be a biological relationship between all these carotenoids.”  Humans need all these related nutrients as found in foods in their natural forms.  A synthetic fraction such as beta carotene is not a vitamin in the body; it is only a “chemical identification” on a shelf because it is so labeled and sold.
 
Therefore, let’s think of “nutrition” and the “Fibrocystic Breast Condition diet” as the consumption of a family of related compounds that work together to enhance the body’s ability to function optimally throughout the genetically determined life span of the individual. How healthy an individual becomes depends on what he/she chooses to put into his/her body every day.  A very important concept to reverse Fibrocystic Breast Condition is to eat your way to better health by following a “reversing Fibrocystic Breast Condition” diet.

FIBROCYSTIC BREAST CONDITION DIET 

PROGRAM GOALS & WHAT TO EXPECT

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•     This program will help you adjust your diet. I want to draw attention to the word “adjust” here, because it means a “process”, not an “event”. You will not be looking for a sudden “event” that just dramatically shifts your health. Healing is a process that your body will take you through, as you make gradual adjustments. You’re going to adjust your eating as you go along, fine tune it, in other words, until you achieve the results you seek.  I will be guiding and coaching you all along this nutritional healing diet free of charge.
 
•     Since you will be seeking health, not avoiding illness, your journey is similar to a treasure hunt.  If you feel yourself trying to escape illness, or if you find yourself motivated by fear rather than hope, you’ve lost your way.  I want to invite you to be a part of your body’s awesome process to become healthy and learning little treasures along the way, instead of avoiding perceived “dangers” you think your body may be carrying.
 
•     This natural Fibrocystic Breast Condition diet program will help you seek to balance your foods in order to balance your body.  Balance means a coupling of opposites, like breathing in and breathing out. All natural systems exist by such polarities, and chronic illness such as sinusitis is a sign that one of the opposites has become too dominant, and the other too weak. (The concept of balancing acid and alkaline foods is an example of this). So with this diet you will balance the properties and functions of your foods in order to balance the properties and functions of your body.
 
•     You don’t have to jump into this Fibrocystic Breast Condition diet program with both feet all at once.  If you choose, you may slowly change your way of living and diet to that which is health- producing in your own time-frame.  You may set up one, two or five year health goals.  Take your time, as your body begins detoxifying and healing, it will become easier and more enjoyable to follow life enhancing health practices with your diet. 

Last, but not least, I hope that you will keep “diet” in perspective.  Please remember that food is not all there is to life.  I would like this Fibrocystic Breast Condition diet program to be pleasing to your taste buds, not just health promoting.  I would like a commitment from you, but not to take yourself too seriously.  I hope you anchor yourself in these guiding principles, yet try to be flexible, open-minded, and wise.  And if you feel you have “failed” from time to time, just count your mistakes as information, not as defeat or as a cause of guilt.  Following this Fibrocystic Breast Condition diet is a happy journey that will be full of challenging times, some doubts, moments of victory followed by days, months and then a lifetime of health and vitality and a Fibrocystic Breast Condition symptom free life!

 

I WILL BE THERE FOR YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY TO COACH YOU THROUGH THIS PROCESS, WHICH INCLUDES...

•  Understanding what offending foods to avoid, “Fibrocystic Breast Condition dirty dozens”.  
 
•  Starting a 2 week diet initially to give your body help to reduce inflammation and allergic reactions to foods and environment.
 
•  How to transition from your 2 week diet to a wider selection of foods without negative reactions.
 
•  How to eat an acid/alkaline balanced diet in order to create an internal environment that is friendly, not hostile. 
 
So, let’s begin your health promoting diet and lifestyle by clicking here to get my questionnaire that will give me a chance to learn about your health background.  As a result, I can customize an effective dietary and supplement program for you and help you lead a fibrocystic breast condition symptom free life.

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References:
Baker, Sidney.  (1997).  Detoxification and Healing.  New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing, Inc.
Gold, Mark.  (1995). “The Bitter Truth About Artificial Sweeteners.” Nexus.  Oct./Nov. 1995.  PP. 25-28.
Erasmus, Udo.  (1993).  Fats that heal Fats that Kill.  Burnaby, BC: Alive Books.
“Gaby’s Literature Review”. (Oct. 2003). Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. Pg. 53.

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