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Strengthening Your Immune System

With a master's degree in nutrition and a PhD in psychology, Sandy Jost, PhD, author of the ,
tries to present you with a holistic balance of diet, guided imagery, and journaling ...
all in one program that integrates with today's conventional treatments for cancer.
What follows here is a list of foods and behaviors that can help you to strengthen your
immune system and is also simply a healthy way to live!

The following are excerpts from Chapter 4 of the
Cancer Involvement Program — Inner Roads: Imaging Your Immune System.
(Pictures have been added here for readability of this important information):

————— Foods that optimize your immune system —————

It is important to know that you can help your body make this important journey by optimizing its ability to produce those incredible immunoglobulins that make up the immune system. Learn to incorporate all of the following principles into your daily routines:

If you have been eating a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet, start immediately on a balanced diet that includes foods like eggs, meats, fish, and especially the mono-unsaturated fat foods such as nuts, olive oil, and avocados! All these foods hold the essential ingredients necessary for immunoglobulin formation. Dietary fats do not automatically digest and form body fat. It's the sugars, starches, and carbohydrates (yes, even whole grains are carbohydrates) that cause insulin to be secreted, which then turn all extra foods eaten into stored body fat.

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The omega-3 fatty acids are especially important, and are found in cold-water fish, some of which you might recognize as trout, catfish, bass, eel, herring, salmon, and tuna. Sources other than fish are easily found in ground flax seeds, canola oil, wheat germ oil, and walnuts. Keep fresh flax seeds frozen for storage and just pour a tablespoon or so into a coffee mill reserved especially for this job. You will benefit from their super light, nutty flavor that can be enjoyed sprinkled on everything from cereal to salads.

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Especially limit your intake of acid-creating, refined carbohydrates like sugar, bread, pasta, white flour, most bottled sauces, and low-fat dairy products! Cancer cells actually thrive in acidic environments and cannot survive in an alkaline one. Even though some foods, such as a fresh orange, do indeed start out as an acid, they digest into healthy byproducts that are perfect alkalines. The exact opposite exists with refined carbohydrates. They digest to an acid that your body must then convert in order to keep the body in its desired slightly alkaline state. The body often needs to mobilize precious calcium phosphate from your bones in order to accomplish this conversion.

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Eat immune-boosting foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, unprocessed whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Include garlic, onions and mushrooms, for they are also known to enhance the immune system.

YES >
Avoid foods that contain altered fats and chemicals, for the body must spend precious resources removing the harmful effects of these foods rather than attending to cancer cells. Altered foods include artificial sweeteners, hydrogenated oils, margarines, deep-fat-fried foods, processed items like canned or dried foods as well as lunch meat, and anything that is considered a food "substitute."

NO >
More simply, eat all foods as close as possible to their most natural state. This means eat fruit as a fresh piece of fruit - even the outer skins when edible. Don't make your source of fruits one of juice. When fruits, vegetables, or grains are ground up, mashed, cooked to a pulp, processed for storage in any way … (you get the idea) … their wonderful source of nutrients and fiber is drastically diminished, and your body treats it more as a source of "sugar" than anything else. It may help to think about buying only those foods found along the periphery of the grocery store rather than anywhere along the isles.
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Drink plenty of good-quality water. And water means plain water! Do not drink sugary drinks, or even the artificially sugared drinks. Plain water is what serves your body best.

YES >
If you need more details or information to help you understand what foods should be eaten for a well-balanced and healthy diet (especially when society has been encouraging us to believe in the "healthiness" of a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet), please refer to the resources found in "Further reading on nutrition" within the Appendix on page 62 [of the Cancer Involvement Program].

IMPORTANT NOTE: During chemotherapy treatments, you may find that your body only accepts a few types of foods or activities. So, you might want to begin first with the suggestions above, but be sure to listen to your body's needs by honoring whatever it is that your body is desiring and able to digest at that time. You can offer plenty of these immune-boosting items into your life once your body is through the intense challenge of chemotherapy treatments as it attempts to find balance in its own path toward healing.

————— Behaviors that optimize your immune system ————

In addition to diet, there are behaviors
that help to strengthen the immune system …

Wash your hands before cooking or eating.


		Strengthening Your Immune System With a master's degree in nutrition and a PhD in psychology, Sandy Jost, PhD, author of the , tries to present you with a holistic balance of diet, guided imagery, and journaling ... all in one program that integrates with today's conventional treatments for cancer. What follows here is a list of foods and behaviors that can help you to strengthen your immune system and is also simply a healthy way to live! The following are excerpts from Chapter 4 of the Cancer Involvement Program — Inner Roads: Imaging Your Immune System. (Pictures have been added here for readability of this important information): *————— Foods that optimize your immune system —————* It is important to know that you can help your body make this important journey by optimizing its ability to produce those incredible immunoglobulins that make up the immune system. Learn to incorporate all of the following principles into your daily routines: If you have been eating a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet, start immediately on a balanced diet that includes foods like eggs, meats, fish, and especially the mono-unsaturated fat foods such as nuts, olive oil, and avocados! All these foods hold the essential ingredients necessary for immunoglobulin formation. Dietary fats do not automatically digest and form body fat. It's the sugars, starches, and carbohydrates (yes, even whole grains are carbohydrates) that cause insulin to be secreted, which then turn all extra foods eaten into stored body fat. *YES >* The omega-3 fatty acids are especially important, and are found in cold-water fish, some of which you might recognize as trout, catfish, bass, eel, herring, salmon, and tuna. Sources other than fish are easily found in ground flax seeds, canola oil, wheat germ oil, and walnuts. Keep fresh flax seeds frozen for storage and just pour a tablespoon or so into a coffee mill reserved especially for this job. You will benefit from their super light, nutty flavor that can be enjoyed sprinkled on everything from cereal to salads. YES > Especially limit your intake of acid-creating, refined carbohydrates like sugar, bread, pasta, white flour, most bottled sauces, and low-fat dairy products! Cancer cells actually thrive in acidic environments and cannot survive in an alkaline one. Even though some foods, such as a fresh orange, do indeed start out as an acid, they digest into healthy byproducts that are perfect alkalines. The exact opposite exists with refined carbohydrates. They digest to an acid that your body must then convert in order to keep the body in its desired slightly alkaline state. The body often needs to mobilize precious calcium phosphate from your bones in order to accomplish this conversion. *NO >* Eat immune-boosting foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, unprocessed whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Include garlic, onions and mushrooms, for they are also known to enhance the immune system. YES > Avoid foods that contain altered fats and chemicals, for the body must spend precious resources removing the harmful effects of these foods rather than attending to cancer cells. Altered foods include artificial sweeteners, hydrogenated oils, margarines, deep-fat-fried foods, processed items like canned or dried foods as well as lunch meat, and anything that is considered a food "substitute." NO > More simply, eat all foods as close as possible to their most natural state. This means eat fruit as a fresh piece of fruit - even the outer skins when edible. Don't make your source of fruits one of juice. When fruits, vegetables, or grains are ground up, mashed, cooked to a pulp, processed for storage in any way … (you get the idea) … their wonderful source of nutrients and fiber is drastically diminished, and your body treats it more as a source of "sugar" than anything else. It may help to think about buying only those foods found along the periphery of the grocery store rather than anywhere along the isles. *YES >* NO > Drink plenty of good-quality water. And water means plain water! Do not drink sugary drinks, or even the artificially sugared drinks. Plain water is what serves your body best. *YES >* If you need more details or information to help you understand what foods should be eaten for a well-balanced and healthy diet (especially when society has been encouraging us to believe in the "healthiness" of a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet), please refer to the resources found in "Further reading on nutrition" within the Appendix on page 62 [of the Cancer Involvement Program]. IMPORTANT NOTE: During chemotherapy treatments, you may find that your body only accepts a few types of foods or activities. So, you might want to begin first with the suggestions above, but be sure to listen to your body's needs by honoring whatever it is that your body is desiring and able to digest at that time. You can offer plenty of these immune-boosting items into your life once your body is through the intense challenge of chemotherapy treatments as it attempts to find balance in its own path toward healing. *————— Behaviors that optimize your immune system ————* In addition to diet, there are behaviors that help to strengthen the immune system … Wash your hands before cooking or eating. Get enough rest. Know that touch works wonders! Get a regular massage from an expert… or better yet…from anyone who is willing to do it for free. Control your stress levels by using relaxation techniques and appropriate coping strategies. Take time for those things that give you pleasure such as your favorite hobbies, social activities, etc. Get regular aerobic exercise, finding something that you like to do, or a variety of things to do, for the sole reason that you might find a way to make consistent exercise a habit! Use imagery. Offer your body plenty of self-love and appreciation for its incredible complexity and skill. Deep breathing will assist in the circulation of your immune system, for this is the vehicle by which the lymphatic fluids circulate (the body doesn't use the heart to pump this system). This is another reason why incorporating a few brief moments of more frequent imagery into your day may have a greater effectiveness than one long session of imagery just once a day. *—————— Compromizing your immune system ——————* *Next Page* For a complete list of guided imagery programs available: Click here:

————— Foods that optimize your immune system —————

In addition to diet, there are behaviors that help to strengthen the immune system …

In addition to diet, there are behaviors
that help to strengthen the immune system …