Cancer-fighting Foods 

Soups - It is not necessary to add sauce, as there is natural sweetness and flavour from the ingredients. Most of the soups involve cutting the ingredients into bite-sized portions before adding to boiling water. Measure water (filtered or purified) to use with small soup bowls, depending on how many persons are having it. Choice and combination can be as follows: Watercress and carrot soup; Radish and carrot soup; Lotus root and red dates soup; Hippocrates soup - leek, celery, big onion, potato, tomato; Fresh corn and soya beans soup (Pre-soak the soya beans for three hours. Discard the water. Boil beans in hot water. Fresh corn can be added when the beans are softer.); Black beans, white beans and small onions (shallots) soup. (Pre-soak black beans for an hour. Discard the water. Boil the black beans first. Cut small onions into thick slices. Then add small onions and white beans.); Potato, carrot and onion soup; Water melon, carrot and red dates soup 

Vegetables - Avoid using non-stick pan as the chemical coating can come off into the food. Instead of heating the pan and adding the oil first, use water to fry the vegetables. This is to avoid letting the oil reach high temperatures, which can be carcinogenic. Heat the pan with a little water. Add minced garlic and cook a while. Add vegetables and a little oil and more water as needed. Cover and let it steam cook. Turn off the fire and add aminos or organic miso; Bean sprouts with carrot strips - Cook the carrot first before adding the bean sprouts; Bean sprouts with tau gua - Cut tau gua into small pieces. Cook in water. Remove tau gua. Add some water to the pan and add minced garlic. Add bean sprouts. When almost done, add in tau gua, and aminos. You may add spring onions or parsley for more flavour; French beans with tau gau; French beans with garlic; French beans with carrot; Bittergourd with garlic; Long beans with garlic; Spinach with garlic; Spinach (puay leng) with garlic and mushrooms; Angled loofah - cooked with garlic and an egg; Tau gua in black sauce and garlic. Many vegetables can be eaten raw without salad dressing - cabbage, cauliflower, green pepper, celery, cucumber, carrot, asparagus spears, corn on cob, or a little olive.

Fish (twice a week is sufficient) - steamed or cooked with water, garlic, ginger, spring onions, tomatoes, parsley. 

Porridge - Use brown rice, unpolished rice or mixed with some white rice; Sweet potato, unpolished and white rice; Shredded carrot with unpolished and white rice; White bait (fresh or dried), shredded carrot, ginger, unpolished and white rice; 

Rice - Use brown rice or unpolished rice or mixed with some white rice. Unpolished rice takes longer to cook, so cook unpolished rice first before adding white rice. 

Raw Foods - Almonds (pre-soak 10 almonds in some water and keep in the fridge for 24 hours. Peel and discard skin before eating.) Walnuts, cashew nuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, nori seaweed (tear into small pieces to eat with some raw vegetables) 

Fruits - Require different digestive enzymes from other foods. It is best to eat fruits either one hour before any meal or two hours after a meal. If fruits are eaten after a meal they will ferment in the stomach together with the other food and the nutrients would not be fully absorbed. It is good to eat papayas and pineapples for the enzymes papain and bromelain to digest protein. Apples and apple juice are also good. It is helpful to drink half a glass of warm water with some lemon juice first thing in the morning on waking up. 

Breakfast - rolled oats, whole meal bread, vegetable soup, porridge, etc. Bread spreads - almond butter or organic fruit jam are preferred to margarine. Avoid hydrogenated fats. 

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(Based on net resources)

published on 19th March 2002

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