Category: Nutrition

EXERCISE & CANCER

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Exercise is important to reduce the risk of many cancers. For example:

  • Bowel cancer: exercise can help waste pass through more quickly, reducing contact with cancer-causing agents.
  • Breast cancer: high activity levels may lower the level of oestrogen in the body.
  • Tumour growth: active bodies produce less insulin and insulin-like growth factors that speed tumour growth.

How much exercise?

Up to 1 hour of moderate activity daily or 30 minutes of vigorous activity is recommended to cut your cancer risk.

‘Moderate intensity activity’ is anything causing a slight but noticeable increase in breathing and heart rate (like brisk walking, mowing the lawn, medium-paced swimming or cycling).

‘Vigorous activity’ makes you ‘huff and puff’. It can be defined as exercise at 70% to 85% of your maximum heart rate and includes activities like football, squash, netball, basketball, aerobics, circuit training, jogging, fast cycling and rowing.

How can I be active every day?

  • See exercise as an opportunity, not an inconvenience.
  • Walk instead of driving to the shops, and walk during your lunch breaks.
  • Walk or cycle to work, and walk up stairs instead of taking the lift or escalator.
  • Get off the train or bus one stop earlier and walk the rest of the way.
  • Do vigorous housework like vacuuming or mowing the lawn.
  • Go and talk to colleagues instead of sending an email.
  • Step it up – a pedometer is a gadget that fits to your belt and counts the number of steps you take. Aim towards a goal of 10,000 steps.

What kinds of activity can I do?

If you don’t like the gym, try:

  • active recreation like bushwalking, surfing or cycling
  • active transport such as walking to public transport, or walking or cycling to your destination
  • sports such as soccer, netball and tennis
  • salsa or ballroom dancing
  • strength training like pilates and yoga
  • brisk walking or jogging
  • skipping rope or ball games.
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To find out more about exercise and cancer. and the evidence  that has shown that exercise  while having chemo improves its effectiveness and much more
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Integrative Oncology

Integrative oncology is an evolving evidence-based specialty that uses complementary therapies in concert with conventional medical treatment to enhance its efficacy, improve symptom control, alleviate patient distress and reduce suffering of cancer patients. Integrative oncology focuses on a health way of fighting cancer and side effects of  conventional treatment.

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Red Rice Chicken Curry & Green Beans

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1 cup Red Rice

500g Diced free range  chicken breast or thigh

2 carrots

1 yellow capsicum ( or any other colour)

Spring onion – 2 Stems

1 small zucchini or 1/2 large

bunch radish

2 cloves garlic

6-8 large  Baby Romas tomatoes

2 cups  organic coconut milk

1 Banana- mashed

4-6 kaffir lime leaves or Laksa leaves

 Splash  EVOO ( Extra Virgin Olive Oil )

BEANS 

*200-500g fresh greens ( 1 garlic clove , 1 teaspoon dried or fresh italian herbs , 2 tablespoon EVOO

SPICES

1 Tablespoon , of Ground coriander, Garam Masala , Cumin, Hot Indian curry powder.

1 teaspoon of chilli flakes or  1 fresh chilli  or Sambal Olek

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What Is Functional Nutritional Medicine?

Functional-Medicine

Functional Nutritional Medicine 

Emphasizes the importance of high quality foods and phytonutrient

diversity to address clinical imbalances and move individuals toward the highest

expression of health. By addressing root cause, rather than symptoms, clinical functional

nutritional medicine practitioners become oriented to identifying the complexity of disease.

One condition has many different causes and, likewise, one cause may result in many

different conditions. Nutritional Medicine is an. It requires a detailed understanding of each

patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle to direct personalised treatment plan that leads to improved patient outcomes.

Advanced nutrition assessment and a thorough Functional Medicine based history leads to a personalized therapeutic intervention created to promote optimal health and prevent diet and lifestyle-related disease.

 

Nutrition is the core modality of Functional Nutritional Medicine, an integrative approach to health. “Functional Nutritional Medicine is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach.

 

Functional Nutritional Medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional Medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and evaluating the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.”

Prevention is paramount. Virtually every complex, chronic disease is preceded by long-term disturbances in functionality that can be identified and effectively managed

Functional Medicine expands the clinician’s tool kit. Treatments may include combinations of drugs, botanical medicines, nutritional supplements, therapeutic diets, or detoxification programs. They may also include counseling on lifestyle, exercise, or stress-management techniques.

The patient becomes a partner. As a patient, you become an active partner with your Functional Medicine practitioner. Such a partnership allows you to be in charge of improving your own health and changing the outcome of disease.

Functional Medicine practitioner is able to understand how your body

  • rids itself of toxins
  • regulation of hormones and neurotransmitters
  • immune system function
  • digestion and absorption of nutrients and the health of the digestive tract
  • structural integrity
  • psychological and spiritual equilibrium
  • how you produce energy inflammatory responses

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NIGHTSHADES & INFLAMMATION

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WHAT ARE NIGHTSHADES???

You may have heard of the term “deadly nightshade” referring to a plant called belladonna, which was used as a poison in ancient times.
The Latin name for this family of plants is Solanaceae, because all of them produce an alkaloid compound called solanine.

Solanine is concentrated in the leaves and stems, and that’s one of the reasons we don’t eat those parts of the plants, it is a chemical which can cause symptoms of poisoning in humans if ingested in large quantities.

A big salad of tomato or potato leaves might actually contain enough solanine to give you an upset stomach.

Perhaps you’ve also heard that potatoes with sprouting eyes are poisonous. That’s because potatoes that have started to sprout or have developed a greenish tint to their skins are often higher in solanine.  It’s best not to eat them.

Did you know they are inflammatory? Lesser known are the commonly eaten vegetables in the same nightshade family.
They aren’t deadly, but they contain enough toxins to cause inflammation in some people, particularly those with an autoimmune disease.
According to the Arthritis Foundation  the belief that eating nightshade vegetables worsens arthritis is a myth. They claim people with arthritis may benefit from the high nutrition content in nightshades.
 
View research paper : “Pigmented potato consumption alters oxidative stress and inflammatory damage in men.”
Problems with nightshades are mostly seen in Caucasians and is mostly genetic.
Often, we don’t realize just how much, until we stop eating them:

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