Cancer

There are millions of people currently living with cancer and this figure is predicted to rise.

Cancer is an umbrella term for a large group of diseases caused when abnormal cells divide rapidly, and spread to other tissue and organs. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Cancers are named for the area in which they begin and the type of cell they are made of, even if they spread to other parts of the body. For example, a cancer that begins in the lungs and spreads to the liver is still called lung cancer. Carcinoma is a cancer that starts in the skin or the tissues that line other organs; Sarcoma is a cancer of connective tissues such as bones, muscles, cartilage, and blood vessels; Leukemia is a cancer of bone marrow, which creates blood cells; Lymphoma and myeloma are cancers of the immune system.

My focus is on nutrition and lifestyle choices and what you can do with your diet to help avoid getting cancer and get rid of it, if you already have it, including the latest cutting-edge research in this area.

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Why GPs are being told to go Low GL

Is the medical profession finally waking up to the need to put nutrition at the...

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Mobiles double brain cancer risk

Long-term mobile phone use more than doubles brain cancer risk.

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Lung Cancer B vitamin Risk – should you be concerned?

Lung cancer B vitamins Risk

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Strawberry Yields Forever

If Hippocrates was minister of health, instead of prescribing you a drug, your doctor would...

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Olive oil’s secret painkiller ingredient

Good quality olive oil protects the heart, brain, skin and reduces blood sugar, inflammation and...

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Mind transforming health tips

As important as good nutrition, exercise, reducing stress, not smoking and creating a toxin-free environment...

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Soya – good or bad?

A prevailing belief I often hear is that soya promotes cancer. I have seen no...

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Cancer – sugar and weight more important than genes

A study out today shows that the greater a woman’s weight the greater is their...

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Are vitamins harmful to health?

This old chestnut, the claim made today in the Daily Mail that vitamin supplements increase...

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Forget Atkins – go ‘fishkins’ to cut cancer risk in half, shows new study

A massive study of over 77,000 people has found that eating meat increases risk for...

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No Cancer deaths by 2050?

That was the announcement in yesterday’s newspapers in response to an £80 million cut in...

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Atkins diet cancer risk

UK medical experts have blamed the Atkins diet for a worrying increase in constipation and...

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Obesity is linked to ten common cancers

Research published today in The Lancet shows that being overweight or obese is linked to...

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High protein cancer link

A study from the University of Southern California has found that a high protein diet,...

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Beating bowel cancer

This month Beating Bowel Cancer launch Decembeard – growing a beard to help raise awareness...

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Four foods that halve your prostate cancer risk

A new study from the UK’s National Cancer Research Network, combining four foods that slow...

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Let’s talk about alcohol

As we emerge from lockdown and with so many people looking to have a healthy...

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Milk – no good for bones, bad for cancer

For years I’ve been saying that dairy products are not an essential food, nor part...

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New diabetes drugs double cancer risk

Heralded as the ‘darlings of diabetes treatment’ a new class of diabetes drugs, called incretin...

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Hit a weight loss plateau?

Time and again people contact me to ask why their weight loss has stalled despite...

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Angelina’s breasts and genetic myths

One of the biggest lies in medicine today is that your disease is caused by...

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The Dark Side of Insulin

We all know that too much circulating insulin is bad news, but new research indicates...

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Why I don’t recommend the HPV123 Gardasil ‘cervical cancer’ vaccine

You can’t turn a corner in London today without seeing ads scaring mothers to get...

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Cancer – screening risks.. vitamins help

A report out today concludes that, for every life breast cancer mammogram screening saves, three...

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Red meat’s cancer risk confirmed

Eating red meat increases risk of death from both cancer and cardiovascular disease, confirms a...

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My new podcast – Say no to cancer

In this, my 8th podcast, I explain the effect certain foods and lifestyle choices that...

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Food is medicine on TV

Last night (Tuesday 8pm) Channel 4 launched a series called Food Hospital and tackled a...

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Three drinks a week increases breast cancer risk

A study of over 100,000 women shows that three or more alcoholic drinks a week...

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WHO: Cell phones may cause cancer

Radiation from cell phones could possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. In...

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Losing and winning the cancer war

Despite claims of increased survival the cancer war is clearly being lost. Lifetime risk for...

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The best approach to treating and preventing cancer

In 1999, when I wrote Say No to Cancer, I predicted that, by 2014 a...

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High B vitamins cut cancer risk by two thirds

A study of almost 400,000 participants finds that those with higher blood levels of vitamin...

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High vitamin D almost halves cancer risk

A study in the British Medical Journal, the largest of its kind to date, shows...

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Folic acid and cancer

Last year I warned about the dangers of folic acid fortification and cancer. Today’s study...

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High insulin triples breast cancer risk

Yet more evidence that poor blood sugar control is a major driver of breast cancer...