I was just wondering if people who get cancer just ate their fruits and vegetables more often if that would stop their cancer from taking place in many cases?

1. christig - December 26th, 2009

   It’s not “natural chemotherapy” for the body. They cancer will still spread and do it’s dangerous effect. However, a recently study done on prostate cancer patients found that if they ate more fruits and vegetables the cancer would spread at a slower rate. Their pretty sure that this is ture for other cancers but ti still needs to be tested.

2. onelonev - December 27th, 2009

   Everybody has cancer. Everybody. The difference is that for some, the body stops destroying the malignant cells. No one knows why. No amount of fruits or vegetables is changing that.

3. Lonewolf - December 27th, 2009

   I knew a cancer paitent who eat carrots, and drank carrot juice, he said it was suppose to help him. He had been eating and drinking so much that his skin was orange. and when he sweated he smelled like carrots. but i think it helped

4. cinqsou - December 27th, 2009

   Fruit & veggies help to keep your body overall healthy. Ate them all my life, Organic too. Grown by me. But I got breast cancer, I survived & am free of it now. May body was strong & able to fight. Big plus. What they are not telling us causes cancer.
   The numbers between 50 & 60 are staggering. Now history of breast cancer in the family. So what were we exposed to. Probably as children. Rural women are showing the disease in record no. They are beginning to squeak about that a bit now.

5. novangel - December 27th, 2009

   It would have a favorable impact on cancer rates, but only stop a few cases. It is not chemotherapy — it is prevention. Chemotherapy is poison that targets cancer cells. The fiber and antioxidants in fruits and vegetables reduce the damage done to cells that make them cancerous in the first place.

6. bug - December 27th, 2009

   no. eating fruits and vegetables will help increase the immune system, but does not replace chemotherapy.