Natural Cancer Treatments – Is it Necessary to Become Vegetarian?

There are many schools of thought in the cancer alternative medicine literature about what is needed by way of diet in natural cancer treatments. The vast majority suggest that someone who wants to heal themselves from cancer must give up meat, especially red meat. However is this the case and what about other foods? Are there any similarities there?

The reason that most suggest giving up red meat is because they claim that vegetarianism is healthier and that red meat makes the blood acidic – upsetting the acid-base balance in the blood which should be more alkaline. Vegetarians tend to have a very deep belief in the inherent “healthiness” of their eating pattern, something that does not seem to be well supported in the medical literature. (I can hear them howl, “Yes it is!” But I beg to differ.)

There is a major issue that is agreed across all of the cancer alternative medicine believers and that is that lot fed animals give inferior meat than grass fed ones. The statement is frequently made that animals free to roam in large grassed areas and eat their grass mixed with many other forms of green herbs gives meat that is naturally healthier than those fed on grains, soy products, antibiotics and growth hormones. (more…)