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    Liz Lipski provides recommendations for cancer patients and those seeking to prevent cancer through nutrition. She recommends a whole foods diet high in fruits and vegetables while avoiding processed foods. Specific foods highlighted include cruciferous vegetables, fermented foods, fish and grass-fed meat. She also recommends various supplements to support the immune system, reduce inflammation, normalize blood sugar and insulin levels, and boost energy production. Lipski provides resources for cancer cookbooks and additional information.

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    LIZ LIPSKI, PHD, CCN, CHN

    CLINICAL NUTRITION/INTEGRATIVE HEALTH


    4 Sunny Ridge Drive • Asheville, NC 28804
    (828) 645-7224 [email protected]

    Cancer & Nutrition 

    Foods 

    • Cook most of your meals at home, eat natural whole foods.  
    • Eliminate highly processed, preserved, artificially sweetened, artificially flavored and dyed 
    foods. Eliminate engineered foods (soy oil, soy protein, non‐organic tofu, corn chips, corn oil, 
    Canola oil, cottonseed oil).  
    • Make your meals nutrient dense by using herbs, spices, berries, smoothies, spirulina, etc 
    • Organic and sustainable, as much as possible. 
    • Eat AT LEAST 7 servings of fruits and vegetables.  
    • Eat nuts, seeds, and beans. 
    • Cruciferous vegetables: broccoli sprouts, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, etc.  
    • Drink green tea and ginger teas.   
    • Cultured/fermented foods:  yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, miso, kim chee, etc. 
    • Eat more fish (with caution though:  organic chemicals, mercury levels). 
    • Eat more grass fed meats and fewer commercially raised meat products. 
    • Avoid alcohol, sugar, low‐nutrient foods. 
    • Soy can be protective for hormone dependent cancers. 
     

    Labs and Supplements to consider:  (If you are in TREATMENT, only take with 
    physician’s approval.  You don’t want to undermine your treatment.)  

    • Vitamin D: Have your levels checked.   
    o Normal is 32‐100 ng/ml.  Considered by many to be optimal is 60‐80 ng/ml.  If your 
    vitamin D levels are lower than 50‐60, spend 20 minutes in sun midday without 
    sunscreen during the warm months. Also take between 5000‐10,000 IU of vitamin D 
    daily and recheck your levels every 6‐12 weeks.  Too much can be toxic.  
    • Normalize insulin and blood glucose levels.  
    o Hemoglobin A1C:  This test is a 3 month measure of your blood sugar levels. It gives a 
    long‐term average of your blood sugar regulation. Optimal levels are 4 or less.  
    o OR if you are pretty healthy, ask your physician to run a 2 hour post‐prandial insulin 
    test.  Optimal levels are less than 8.  
    o If either of these are high, increase your exercise, look at a low‐glycemic diet (low‐
    carbohydrate), eat high fiber foods and bitter melon, increase B‐complex vitamins, 
    magnesium, vanadium, chromium, cinnamon, and herbs such as Gymnema sylvestre 
    and holy basil.  
     
    • Check Copper Levels:  Serum copper or ceruloplasm. If high, work with clinician to lower.  
    Zinc and manganese are antagonist.   
    • Reduce Inflammation: Get your C‐Reactive Protein (CRP) level checked.  Optimal levels are 
    between 1‐3.   
    o Change diet to reflect the above suggestions, drink green tea, exercise,    
    o take supplemental fish oil, 1000‐6000 IU daily 
    o curcumin, 1‐6 grams daily  
    o ginger, as a food, drink as tea or ginger lemonade, capsules 1500 mg daily 
    o vitamin C (1+ grams daily). 
    o Greens:  provide phytonutrients, antioxidants, small amounts of essential amino acids 
    and fatty acids, supports immune and overall health. Supports liver detoxification.  
    Available in capsules, foods, powders. 1‐2 tsp powders daily. 
    o Zyflammend  2‐4 daily (New Chapter/Newmark)  
    • Support immune function:  
    o Exercise, improve diet. Increase fruits, vegetables, greens.   
    o Probiotics:  eat cultured and fermented foods.  Supplements daily. 
    o Protease:  helps increase blood circulation, helps to dissolve encapsulation of tumors, 
    blood purifier, reduces inflammation.  Dosage:  varies with product‐‐‐protection:  2‐10 
    daily, active cancer 12‐50 daily. Best on empty stomach.  
    o Mushroom extracts are immune supportive.  Cold water processed.  
    • Support energy production 
    o Co‐Q10  30‐400 mg daily soluble Co10 
    o Greens like chlorophyll, chlorella, spirulina, wheat grass juice 
    o Multivitamin with minerals    
     
    Cancer Cookbooks and Resources 

    • The Cancer Fighting Kitchen, & One Bite at a Time, Rebecca Katz 
    • Life over cancer,  Keith Block 
    • Foods that Fight cancer, & Cooking with Foods that Fight Cancer, Richard, Believeau, Denis Gringa, 
    Pierre Bruneau 
    • Nature’s Cancer Fighting Foods, Verne Varne 
    • How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine Michael Murray, Tim Birdsall, Joseph 
    Pizzorno, Paul Reilly  
    • Beating Cancer with Nutrition, Patrick and Noreen Quillin 
    • What to Eat if you have Cancer, Maureen Keane, Danielle Chase 
    • Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, World Cancer 
    Research Institute and American Institute for Cancer Research 
    • Jeanne Wallace www.nutritional‐solutions.net  
    • Moss Reports  www.cancerdecisions.com  
    • American Institute for Cancer Research www.airc.org  
     

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