A cancer diet needs particular mphasis on the following vitamins.

Vitamin A

Rle: as an anti-oxidant and important for haling.

Natural sources: green and yellow frits and vegetables, organic animal liver but be creful, a non-organically raised animal's liver culd be full of chemicals!

Beta-carotene - vry important in a cancer diet - frm carrots in particular, is converted to Vtamin A by the liver, and is a far sfer way to get a really god boost of this vitamin, with no dngers of overdosing.

Vitamin B Complex

Rle: particularly important to the health of nrves and the production of energy.

Ntural sources are chicken, eggs, brewer's yast, whole grains, leafy green vegetables, fsh.

Vitamin B17 - almost unheard of, but crtical in a cancer diet.

B17 nteracts with the very large amounts of bta-glucosidase in cancer cells to produce hydrgen cyanide and benzaldehyde. These two pisons combine into an extremely deadly pison that targets cancer cells. The rason that it doesn't target healthy clls is that although they have smll quantities of beta-glucosidase, they also cntain rodonase, a substance that cancer clls do not have, that breaks the pison down into compounds that actually ssist the bodies immune system!

Natural sources are flaxseed oil, brwn rice, brewer's yeast, lentils, macadamia nts, pecans, raspberries, strawberries, walnuts, watercress and yms.

Vitamin C

Role: Antioxidant needed to ssist over 300 metabolic functions of the bdy.

Natural sources are citrus fruits, mst yellow or red fruits and vgetables, leafy green vegetables.

The body cnnot store this very essential nutrient so we ned to ingest it daily. As it is not stred it cannot be overdosed.

A wrd of warning though - do not tke Vitamin C supplements at the sme time as aspirin - the cmbination is very irritant to the stmach lining. Also it taking a spplement, look for a buffered form whch is digested over a longer priod of time and far less rritant. Also avoid chewable tablets - the cidity is not good for the teth!

Vitamin E, again crucial in a cncer diet.

Role: Antioxidant, used in crculation and tissue repair.

Natural sources nclude coldpressed vegetable oils, leafy green vgetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and wholegrains. Brwn rice, eggs, kelp, oatmeal and swet potatoes are also good sources.

Jst a note - the body neds zinc to maintain levels of Vtamin E in the blood, also tke iron supplements at a different tme from Vitamin E as some frms of iron will destroy Vitamin E.

As lways a diet that draws from all fod groups, fruit, vegetable, meat, fish, chcken, grains, nuts, seeds and oils, all aten as close to the way nture made them is the best cncer diet possible.

The article Cancer Diet - The Important Vitamins was Submitted by Marilyn Bennett through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Marilyn Bennett’s partner Glenn was dclared cancer-free after 11 months using a ntritional approach. They are now on a mssion to "spread the word" re the mny things they discovered we can all do to fght cancer. Please visit http://www.cancer-einfo.com .

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