Diet restrictions with DCIS diagnosis?

My oncology dietitian recommended a Mediterranean diet. Once I researched that I found Dr. William Li's book: EAT TO BEAT YOUR DISEASE. I'm now eating ? Stokes purple potatoes as often as I can get them (the true purple potatoes are reputed to kill cancer stem cells), and a number of other things that I have never had before. Matcha green tea is now a staple in my diet. He encourages dark chocolate. I'm allowing myself 2 squares of HU Salty Dark Chocolate per day (currently). It's 70% Cacao and uses coconut sugar instead of cane sugar. (It's too expensive, so I may eliminate it before I really want to!!) Unfortunately, I also have autoimmune diseases, which complicates things for me, so I have eliminated all gluten, and milk products with lactose. (I use ghee or lactose free half and half - also too expensive!!) The Mediterranean diet also helps the inflammatory issues associated with the autoimmune diseases.
Best wishes!!

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My Oncologist, who is amazing, said there are no restrictions, but instead to have the “everything in moderation” mindset. That includes everything from food, sugar, alcohol etc. Don’t stop living normally and be miserable, but don’t go overboard either.

Honey is a natural sugar that is easier for your body to process and has many benefits. I use honey in salad dressings to sweeten.
You can do your research - I found this on the internet... anti-tumor effects of honey have been examined using several cancer cell lines and tissue. Honey has been proven to decrease the tumorigenicity of different cancer types including breast, lung, skin, renal, prostate, colorectal, and cervical cancer.
Buying honey from a local farmer or bee maid honey is in its purest form. Anything from China is not.

My oncology dietitian recommended a Mediterranean diet. Once I researched that I found Dr. William Li's book: EAT TO BEAT YOUR DISEASE. I'm now eating ? Stokes purple potatoes as often as I can get them (the true purple potatoes are reputed to kill cancer stem cells), and a number of other things that I have never had before. Matcha green tea is now a staple in my diet. He encourages dark chocolate. I'm allowing myself 2 squares of HU Salty Dark Chocolate per day (currently). It's 70% Cacao and uses coconut sugar instead of cane sugar. (It's too expensive, so I may eliminate it before I really want to!!) Unfortunately, I also have autoimmune diseases, which complicates things for me, so I have eliminated all gluten, and milk products with lactose. (I use ghee or lactose free half and half - also too expensive!!) The Mediterranean diet also helps the inflammatory issues associated with the autoimmune diseases.
Best wishes!!

Vegan/vegetarian is not necessary, nor is it the answer to breast cancer. I have a lady in our cancer group that has never eaten meat of any kind in her life, as her parents were the same. She thrived on healthy and strong and did all the careful little things that I don’t have the energy or budget for. She got breast cancer at 40,
I do feel like we can make our lives better and our bodies stronger by eating the best that we can, and keeping our bodies as healthy as we can. This also helps when we do get cancer, being otherwise healthy might be the thing that gets us through it all.
If you are doing the navy version (love the term), you have plenty to think about without trying to change your entire diet. My guess is that you are already stronger than many who are joining this awful club, if you eat with an eye to healthy that’s all you can ask of yourself.
This is a time for absorbing the diagnosis, how are you feeling? Have you wandered around other conversations on connect ?

So are there studies and research on this? I eat healthy, grass raised and finished beef, organic, fiber, probiotics, walnuts, sour sop tea, veggies, etc. But, I drink alchoholevery day. How bad is this? Are there references, studies I can read?

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