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How did you adjust your lifestyle and diet after your diagnosis?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 23 8:13pm | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
If you believe something is beneficial to you, and it doesn't do harm, there's no reason to not do it. We still don't fully understand the ways that our psyche can impact our health and if you believe strongly that lack of [insert ingredient/food group here] prevents cancer growth or that more of [insert ingredient/food group here] will help you then there's no harm in doing it and who is to say that your brain doesn't produce enough of a positive response to this that it actually does something.
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Survivor, I really get what you’re saying - that your secret superfood, diet, “belief”, your talisman, your amulet - and I guess your religious beliefs (SORRY COLLEEN - just illustrating!) can be a source of solace and strength….fine.
Just Pu-leeze don’t pontificate about it and make everyone feel foolish by caving in to accepting current scientific medical guidelines.
I know YOU understand that, but alas, many still do not and wind up suffering by delaying proven treatment.
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Absolutely. And there are general health benefits from cutting back on sugar (that "moderation" thing again), even if it doesn't affect prostate cancer itself. As long as someone eats a nutritionally-complete diet and doesn't avoid necessary medical treatment because they think they can cure prostate cancer through what they eat, then no harm, no foul.