The Big C

It's All a Matter of Taste -- and Childhood Trauma

A couple of years ago a friend of mine and I tried the Atkins diet to lose weight. At one point we had some french fries and agreed how absolutely disgusting they tasted.
Well, we soon got over that foolishness but it is interesting how your tastes change when you change your diet.
I've never been a big vegetable fan (which makes being on a vegetarian diet interesting) and I liked most fruits other than avocado. The texture of the avocado kind of gave me the heebie jeebies. Or it may have been the traumatic viewing of "The Exorcist" when I was 16.
But now, after a couple of months on the Budwig protocol, I find some things have changed.
I like bell peppers. I never did before. I'd get Kung Pao chicken at the Mandarin and pick out the bell peppers. I'd order chicken curry and pick out the bell peppers. Anything I got with bell peppers, I'd pick them out.
Now I make this great dish with brown rice, black beans, peppers, zuchini, tomatoes and salsa. The peppers are key.
And what do I put on top of that dish? Guacamole. Yeah, avocado and spices. I get flax seed crackers and eat them with guacamole. I put avocado on sandwiches instead of mayo. I put guac on most anything I can.
I guess I've gotten over the whole Linda Blair upchucking scene.
Now even with this change I don't know that I'll ever cotton to cauliflower or brussel sprouts. That horrific seventh grade cooking class where we burnt the brussel sprouts is still fresh in my mind. And the cauliflower? I can still picture the White Meal I got in Norway after backpacking for a week. After days on rations, we go to a restaurant for a good meal and get fish with the heads still on, boiled potatoes and cauliflower soup. What a downer.
If only this were a fruititarian instead of vegetarian protocol. I can eat raspberries, tangerines and grapes till the cows come home. Wait, I can't have cow.... Till the beets come home?
Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Yes, I'm still here, cancer and all

I haven't posted in a few weeks and all I can say is, I was on vacation and I'm sorry.
I took two weeks off. It was the time I was supposed to travel to Fiji for a writers retreat (yeah, I know, sounds suspect, but really, it's true) but I canceled the trip because of this unwelcome reappearance of the big C.
My docs said I could go. But that's when they wanted me to do chemo, which consisted of taking a bunch of horse pills. While more convenient, certainly, I don't think my body would have liked them.
I do think my body much prefers what I'm doing now, healthy diet and all. Not that my taste buds always prefer it. And convenience isn't exactly high on the list of Budwig protocol attributes.
But we carry on.
I've kind of recommitted to Budwig in the past couple of days. I haven't made the progress I would have liked, at least from what I can see on my chest of my cancer. I wanted it all gone by now but I know that probably wasn't realistic. Still, I wanted something different. And I don't see it.
Oh, there are changes. The black salve is making a few inroads in some of it but it also keeps popping up elsewhere. Now it's not popping up as fast as it was or anything and not in as many places so I supposes that's good.
But I have to remind myself it's a marathon not a sprint (yeah, yeah, I want it done NOW, whimper, whine, wah, wah, wah.) It took me years to get my body out of balance. It may take more than a few weeks to regain it.
See, that's what always got me about weight loss. When I want it gone I want it gone now. None of this, it took you years to gain the weight, it my take years to get rid of it.
Who made up these rules anyway???? Where do I mail in my complaint???
Unfortunately, the Budwig plan is relatively complex. Oh, it's pretty simple in its components but complex in its execution. I have problems with the timing of things -- drinking the sauerkraut juice one hour before eating the morning flax seed oil and cottage cheese; having vegetable juice at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.; eating dinner at 6 p.m., etc. I don't get off work until 6 p.m. and it takes longer to make brown rice, my favorite dinner meal.
Yeah, I know, complain, complain. It is your LIFE, after all, Kathy. Suck it up.
I had thought on my vacation I would get some of the timing down. I mean, I didn't have to go to work so I could try to find a rhythm of things. Instead, I slept in most mornings, read in bed, puttered around and didn't do much of nothing. (Except go to Cache Creek and go home with $200 more than I left with. YAY. Although I did wonder as I drove up there if I wanted to waste any karma on gambling when I needed all my luck to fight cancer. But I suppose that's a bit whimsical.)
But I'm back to work now and actually finding the timing of things a bit easier. A bit.
So I'm trying to follow things to the letter now. They say it usually takes at least 12 weeks of following Budwig to the letter to overcome cancer, although it can take longer. So I'm 2 days into my 12 weeks and I haven't cheated once. Although my cheating before was what I would call mini-cheating (eating white rice instead of brown rice in a restaurant, for example.) I'm going to try to eliminate all things I can control and buckle down with it.
I'll let you know the results in 12 weeks.
But I won't wait that long to post another blog. I'm back on schedule now, buckling down on life. And that includes this blog.

My Chest is HOT, Baby

I had my first PET scan the other day. In this lovely test, they inject you with radiactive glucose, make you rest for more than an hour, (no reading, no nothing) then stick you in a metal tube for half an hour to see where the glucose goes.
Theory is, cancer likes sugar. If you have bits of your body glowing, thar might be cancer in them thar cells.
Only problem with this theory. Other things like sugar, too, including infections. Scars turn up to be hot spots, as do past injuries.
So I take my results with a grain of salt - or shall we say sugar.
My chest is hot. Now if I actually had breasts any more that might mean something different. In this instance, it means my chest glows.
Not the best thing in the world. But not unexpected either. This is where the rash is. This is where the yeast infection may be. This is where the biopsies showed cancer.
Problem is, this rash covers an area almost armpit to armpit. And the biopsy was two little bits of flesh removed in two specific places. Who knows what else might be where.
And the PET scan doesn't tell me what hot spot is what. As the doctors have said, this could be a mix of cancer and infection. No one knows for sure. We'll see in two months when I have another test, a CT scan this time, which will tell us how things may have changed.
Now the goal here, folks, is for my chest not to be hot any more. I hope in two months to have eaten away much of the hot spots with black salve and yew salve and for the Budwig protocal to have dealt with things from the inside.
Unfortunately, I caught that nasty cold going around and right now my chest is hot and congested.
Oh, well. Maybe I can cough away some of these hot spots.

What I Do For Health

So I'm on this Budwig protocol and it's been going pretty well so far. I've found some tastes I've liked that I didn't before such as bell peppers and avocados.
But this morning I encountered something which, well, I don't know if I'll ever master.
One premise of the protocol is to get all sorts of good enzymes inside you which will help with cell health and digestion and that sort of stuff. So first thing every morning you're supposed to drink a glass of sauerkraut juice.
Yup. Sauerkraut juice. Just the idea makes me grimace.
I've never been a brine kind of gal. My brothers love pickles. I know folks who pull one of those puppies out of the jar and eat it on down with somewhat risque relish. I don't even like cucumbers, the non-brine version of pickles.
Sauerkraut hasn't been high on my list, either, not that I've had a lot. Again, even cabbage isn't a big winner for me, although that at least is edible.
Sauerkraut juice doesn't even come close. It's absolutely vile. Horrid, foul, disgusting. In other words, yucky.
I gave it a couple of days. I drank some yesterday and just made ugly faces. I'm making them now in memory. This morning I downed some, trying to drink as fast as I could, and turned into the Vitamitavegimin woman on "I Love Lucy." Vile, I say, vile.
I finally sent a post to the Budwig yahoo group I belong to. I described my reaction to the drink and asked if there was anything I could do to improve the taste.
The moderator wouldn't post it. I guess I'd been a little vehement in my opinions. She did tell me, though, that I can add juice or water to it and play with it that way.
I'll give that a try tomorrow.
Sauerkraut juice. I've given up meat, chicken, chips, ice cream, cookies, french fries... the list goes on. But sauerkraut juice????
I'm not sure which is worse, the juice or the cancer.

Shopping, shopping and, yes, shopping

I love going to grocery stores. When it comes to shopping, I not a shoe store kind of gal. I much prefer grocery and office supply stores.
But my affection is getting tested these days. Used to be I could go on in, breeze on through and head on out. I might spend 20-30 minutes in the market, depending on whether I had to stock up on cat food.
These days, however, I might as well have my own cot and closet.
This Budwig protocol I'm on is quite demanding when it comes to what you can and can't eat. While, overall, it's not too taxing -- fruits, veggies and whole grains are king. But being a girl of this generation, I don't want to cook everything myself. I like making bread -- on occasion. I don't want it to take up all my time.
So I've taken to reading a lot of labels, picking out the hidden sugars and oils we aren't supposed to have. There are simple rules:
1. Nothing that was listed under chemistry on the SATs. No methyl ethyl dextrose or anything else that ends in ose or thyl or things like that.
2. No sugar. And that means nothing masquerading as sugar such as cane juice, even organic cane juice, or fructose or whatever. Nothing manufactures, although honey and stevia are fine.
3. No wheat flour or oat flour or any kind of flour unless it comes from sprouted grains. I'm not sure why, frankly, but something with the sprouting makes it more digestible, I guess.
4. No oil other than flax seed oil.
Sounds simple, right. But you would be amazed how much stuff has hidden oils and sugars, even organic stuff.
I spent almost two hours at Whole Foods Market in Sacramento Sunday (and gee wouldn't we like one here, right folks?) I read label after label after label.
What treasures did I find? I found some stuff produced by this company called Go Raw. It's granola is a great snack -- it's just sprouted buckwheat, sprouted flax seeds, organic raisins and organice dates. It's really good. I also found some snacks bars with similar ingredients. I found organic apple sauce that just has apples in it, pomegranate nectar, cereal, etc.
It wasn't quite the treasure trove I'd hoped for. I mean, can't someone make brownies out of flax seeds? Anyone? But it was worth the visit for the granola alone.
The Budwig diet certainly isn't as convenient as, say, McDonald's. But I suppose that whole staying alive thing outweighs the inconvenience.
Humph.
I guess I'll just have to get my jollies at Office Max now.

Eyeballs working just fine. Check.

I went to the doctor today..... and my eyeballs are fine.
Yeah, not everything is about cancer. But that doesn't mean you don't think about it.
After my graceful fall at the post office parking lot last week, I had to get new glasses. The doc wouldn't give me new glasses because I hadn't had an exam in four years. (Yeah, yeah, I know.) Thus the exam today.
It's changed since I've been there. Used to be you went into this little room and dots appeared on the wall. You pressed a clicker every time you saw a dot. It was fun.
Now there are all sorts of machines testing things. It's more like the dmv than a carnival game.
They also had more forms to fill out, giving them permission to dialate my eyes and to take huge pictures of the inside of my eyeballs.
I have to admit I hesitated. You know what exams mean to me these days? Not good news. Tests with pictures and stuff. Not good news. What if they found a huge mass behind my eyeball? (I have no symptoms of that, mind you, but that doesn't mean you don't think about it.)
But I went ahead instead. Life can be nice in the land of denial but it probably shouldn't be a permanent place of residence.
What did I learn? My eyeballs are fine. I have a strong pulse in there. My optic nerve is fine although there's a little thinning because I'm nearsighted. And apparently I have blonde eyes (although not blonde hair) because I don't have a lot of pigment in my eyeballs.
I also have to get new glasses and new contacts. My eyes have changed, although not much.
And I'm getting transitional lenses. Yes, the new age word for bifocals. Although these aren't bifocals per se, with one prescription on top for long distance and another on the bottom for close up. These transition from one to another so there's a middle prescription in there for the computer, too.
It will take some getting used to, I'm told. So I'll be spending the next few weeks (after I get the friggin expensive glasses) bobbing my head at my computer, nodding up and down, trying to find the sweet spot of clear vision.
As many have said, getting older sucks. Now I still want to do it (as opposed to the alternative) but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it.
Yeah, all right, the word is bitch, I know.
And please pardon me for any misspellings. I'm typing this while my eyes are still dialated so who knows what I might actually be saying.

Breakfast, the Most Important Meal of the Budwig Day

When I tell people about the Budwig protocol they seem interested until I get to the key part - the cottage cheese and flax seed oil combo. They they stop and go, "Eeww, really?"

Yeah, really. I just had mine. And it can be pretty tasty.

The cornerstone of the protocal is the combined cottage cheese and flax seed oil. It had to do with building up your cells and that sort of thing. And the sulfar in the cottage cheese combines with the oil to create a new substance which makes it easier for the good stuff to get into your system. That's a layman's explanation. I can get more technical, or find someone who can, if anyone is interested.

So you mix three tablespoons of oil to every six tablespoons of cottage cheese - a 1:2 proportion. You mix it with a hand blender so it combines completely, no oil visible, and it gets the consistency of whipped cream. I usually add some apple juice and carrot juice to make it thinner because I like to drink it rather than eat it. And then I add whatever I like. This morning I blended in half a banana and some boysenberries, and then added fresh pineapple and raisins. Other days I make it with cantaloupe or blueberries or strawberries or apples or any combination thereof.

In the morning you also add two tablespoons of flax seeds, ground. You have a second batch at lunchtime, but with no seeds.

You have to mix it up because you can get tired of anything, no matter how good it is. But it's a nice way to start the morning.

Grace, thy name is Kathy

Yeah, so there I was minding my own business outside the post office when I decided to take a header onto the pavement.
Great.
So not only do I have gunk and scabs and bandages all over my chest in my quest to get rid of the cancer, I now have blood and gunk and scabs on my face.
Double great.
And the worst part about it. It was my own damn fault.
I mail a lot of books. I sell books online through amazon.com and visit the post office 2-3 times a week to mail them off.
Usually I put my box of books in the back seat behind me. But I have a bunch of other boxes back there right now (another long story) so I had them in the front passenger seat.
Why is this important? Because I'm a doof who doesn't watch where she was going.
I opened the passenger's door to pull out the container of books and suddenly hear next to me a few people talking about a pregnant woman who was killed in Fairfield. Being the whipsmart reporter that I am, I started to listen (eavesdrop).
So I leaned into the car to grab onto the box, all the while cocking my head to listen better, turned and glanced over at the trio standing by another car talking. I started walking toward the post office, still looking at the folks nearby and.....
Never saw the cement block marking the parking place.
My feet tangled and I started to go down. (Cue music from "Six Million Dollar Man" to denote slow motion.) My knees hit first, my left one hardest, then the box of books, my hands still clutching on to it. I tilted off to the side a bit as I went down, my torso then my shoulder meeting the pavement.
And then, the details of the cement still clear in my mind, my face hit the pavement. I didn't have my hands to block my fall so my face had to do it for me.
Again, shall we say, great.
I lay there for a few moments as people gathered around. I was a bit shocked that this had happened, amazed sort of. I mean, this doesn't happen to me that often. I'm usually pretty coordinated. But not this day.
Then I noticed the world was looking a little blurry, a little out of focus. Thankfully, it wasn't my brain but my glasses which had gouges and scrapes in them. I was then more concerned about my glasses than anything else.
I stood up, using the box of books as leverage, and reached for my glasses. I took them off and then, like it does, the world seemed to go silent. Then a voice rang out....
"God, look at all the blood."
Thanks. Thanks a lot. I appreciate you pointing that out.
Yes, I was bleeding, copiously as you do from face wounds. The bridge of my glasses had dug into the bridge of my nose and that was pumping the most blood, although I had a bloody nose, too, and scrapes on my cheek and chin.
I got a towel from my car and lapped up the blood. People were staring, which I so enjoy, and asking if I was OK. I was but I still felt stupid.
I sat in my car a bit, thinking about what to do and trying to look at myself in the rear view mirror through my scratched up glasses. Finally I decided to go home, clean myself up and put on my contacts and then figure out what to do.
I thought about just crawling into bed and pulling up the covers. I think about that often some days. But, really, it wasn't that bad. And I knew it would probably be worse later. So I went back to work.
In hindsight, I wonder if I could have manuevered the fall a bit so I could scrape some of the layers of skin off my chest - and get rid of the cancer that way. Of course, I would have had to have gone to the post office topless. And, well, that would be worse than having cancer ... for everyone.
I suppose I could say that this will teach me not to eavesdrop... oh, I mean, listen. But, really, if you're saying something interesting in public and I'm there, well, I'll probably still listen.
But I won't put books in the front seat of my car anymore.
See, there's a bright side to every story.

Warning: Gross Topic Ahead

I've been spotting my chest with little blobs of black salve and they seem to be working. Well, at least I pulled a pocket of pus off my chest a couple of days ago.
Yes, pockets of pus. Well, more like gunky, ucky, blech stuff that comes out after you have a blister or scrape your knee and it gets infected. Yeah, well, that could be called pus.
It's interesting, like watching a car accident. First you put the salve on and cover it with a bandage. You leave it for 12 hours. You might put more on at that point, you might not.
Days pass. Every morning and night you clean it with hydrogen peroxide and put new bandages on.
Eventually, a plate of pus forms. Eventually, it falls off, leaving a bit of raw flesh behind. You keep cleaning and covering and it heals over, good as new. Well, a scar, maybe, but still better than cancer.
At least that's what's happened with me so far. The biggest one I've removed has been about the size of a pea. I have one about the size of a lima bean almost ready to go - likely the biggest one I'll have, knock on wood.
I have a lot more to do. My chest will likely end up looking like the surface of the moon. But that's a whole lot better than what's there now.
And I wasn't exactly Playboy material in the first place. So who cares.
I can take the pus and the gunk and the yech for as long as it takes to get rid of the cancer.
I never thought I'd be so glad to see pockets of pus.
And, gee, aren't you glad I didn't put a photo with this post???

Diet Details on the Budwig Protocol

As I've mentioned before, I'm following the Budwig Protocol to combat the cancer recurrance.
I'm trying to avoid saying "my" cancer because I don't want to take ownership of it. I want to get rid of it. But that may seem a little silly. Still, whatever works...
Anyway, here are the basic instructions. There's a lot to it and it takes awhile to get it all down. I'm still working on it. But it can be done.
I've got the FOCC down. This morning I had a fine mix of the flax oil and cottage cheese with apple juice, blueberries, boysenberries and cantaloupe, mixed into a smoothie and then added the ground flax seeds. It was quite nummers.
You have to play with it to find what's best. I started eating it, making the mix and then adding the fruit. But I like the smoothie much better. And it's faster in the morning.
I'm getting the tea down and the sunshine. Plus the second FOCC at lunch - it's so much better without the seeds. But I'm still working on the veggie juicing throughout the day. And the saurkraut juice? That just makes me wince. But I'm going to give it a try.
Let me know if you've tried this and what you think.

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INTRODUCTION to the BUDWIG PROTOCOL with DIET DETAILS
This plan has stopped cancer & other diseases for over 50 years
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This can help you to follow Dr. Budwig's protocol. It is based
on her book, "Cancer - The Problem and the Solution" [1999], her
cookbook, "The Oil-Protein Diet" [1952] as well as on our Files
for this group and experiences of our members.

Most people begin gradually, adding healthy foods & liquids and
eliminating damaging ones. The diet seems simple, but foods are
powerful and can damage or heal a person. The Budwig plan has healed
people of many kinds of cancer and other diseases and conditions.

In liver, pancreatic, stomach and gall bladder disease it's best to
begin with a "Transition Diet" which is explained in our Files
Section, Folder 3. After the transition, begin the diet below with
small amounts of the oil & cheese as well as the other foods.

Dr.Budwig had over a 90% success rate with this protocol with
all kinds of cancer patients over a 50 year period. Many research
studies done in the last ten years support the cancer-fighting value
of the foods, juices, sun exposure and relaxation Dr.Budwig recommended.
There are many testimonials in the Files of this group written by
members who have regained their health by following this protocol
after being diagnosed with cancer - many of them terminal.

To start the diet, it helps to have 3 appliances:
1- A coffee bean grinder to grind the whole brown flaxseeds sold
in health food stores or online. Freshly ground seeds are a must.
2- An immersion hand-held mixer (a stick-shaped mixer) to blend
and bond the flaxseed oil [FO] & cottage cheese [CC] together so that
they become one food, making the oil water-soluble and more absorbable.
It's important to use an electric mixer rather than stirring the two.
3- A vegetable juicer. A masticating or extractor type may give a
more healthful juice than a centrifugal type. Many members like Green Star.

FLAXSEED OIL and COTTAGE CHEESE (FOCC) or quark:
Generally, each tablespoon of Flaxseed Oil (FO) is blended with 2 or
more tablespoons of low-fat organic Cottage Cheese(CC)or quark.
That is a ratio of approximately 1:2. Cold-pressed refrigerated
liquid FO is used, for example, Barlean's & Spectrum. It's better
to buy regular FO instead of High Lignan FO. Healthier lignans
are obtained at a lower cost by using freshly ground flaxseeds.
[used instead of Linomel]. Ground seeds must be used within 15 minutes.

TO START THE DAY - About an hour before breakfast, have
a glass of raw sauerkraut juice. It has cancer-fighting benefits.
Home-made is best in order to get the digestive enzymes [recipe in
Files - Folder 5 'Foods']. Go to this site for a video on making sauerkraut:
http://www.leeners.com/sauerkraut-video.html Press the arrow to start video.

Also, you can order RAW sauerkraut juice at this link:
http://stores.commonhealthproducts.org/Detail.bok?no=26
Anything pasteurized has lost its enzymes but still offers lactic acid
which is important and helps with digestion. Biotta is a brand that
is pasteurized but is a high quality juice, has lactic acid & vitamins C & K.
Biotta can be ordered online. One 17oz bottle offers 2 or 3 servings.
Use this link. http://tinyurl.com/2karv2

BREAKFAST -
Start with a cup of green tea or herbal tea. It provides warm liquid
required for the ground flaxseeds to swell properly. That is
important. Then eat your Muesli [Muesli in the Budwig diet refers to
the recipe below - we often call it FOCC]. Cottage cheese, quark,
homemade yogurt cheese or kefir cheese is OK to use. [Recipes in Files]

Budwig FOCC[or quark]Recipe: [Make enough for 1 meal only, avoid storing. Eat
immediately. Use organic foods if possible. JB's cookbook has varied recipes]
[1] Blend 3 tblsp flaxseed oil with 6 tblsp low-fat CC or quark with a hand-
held immersion electric mixer for about a minute. If needed, add 2 tblsp milk.
The mixture should be like rich whipped cream with no separated oil.
Layer or stir in the following ingredients:
[2] Grind 2 tblsp whole flaxseeds and add. [This replaces Linomel]
Freshly ground seeds become rancid within 20 minutes, eat recipe immediately.
[3] Add fresh [or thawed-out frozen if necessary] berries - blueberries,
raspberries, etc., which contain cancer-fighting ellagic acid.
[4] Add other fresh fruit if you like, totaling 1/2 to 1 cup of fruit.
[5] If mixture is too thick, add some fruit juice [e.g. dark grape, blueberry]
or milk. Fruits & their juices are proven cancer fighters.
[6] Add organic raw nuts such as walnuts or Brazil nuts [no peanuts]
and, if you wish, a bit of raw honey or vanilla. Try various
fresh organic fruits and flavorings. Limit honey to 3 to 5 teaspoons a day.
[This recipe is one example of how FO can be mixed with cheese. If you don't
like this recipe, you can make yogurt cheese, kefir cheese, goat cheese. You
also can add veggies/spices rather than fruit & eat the fruit at another time.]

Here's a link to a video of the FOCC recipe being made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoddptWL0s

Here's a 2nd video of the FOCC Introductory Recipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZgLvg1ixhk

MID-MORNING -
Freshly-pressed vegetable juice from carrots and/or beet, celery, lemon, apple
as well as green vegetables - lettuces or spinach[carrot & beet juices are
especially helpful to the liver & are strong cancer fighters] Vary vegetables.
Chart comparing juicers: http://www.2-life.com/site/juicer_reviews.html

GO OUTSIDE FOR SUNLIGHT - Dr. Budwig emphasized that being in sunlight is
very healthful for vit.D and other benefits [even in winter].
Avoid burning & avoid sunscreen & sunglasses.

If you feel up to having some exercise, individualize it according to
your strength - DON'T OVERDO IT. Some quotes by Dr.Budwig regarding
exercise: "Often yoga or sport is very important, but sometimes the
patient should not do this" and "I would never allow a cancer patient
with metastases to jog, ride a bicycle, or to practice yoga. His body
must relax."
One form of exercise that is beneficial for most people is using a rebounder
[a mini-trampoline] because it helps clear the lymph system and promotes better
drainage. See www.healthbounce. com & www.needakrebounder .com]

BEFORE LUNCH -
A cup of warm green or herbal tea. Use honey if desired (no sugar).
Also suggested, one tblsp whole flaxseeds, freshly ground and added
to a glass of Champagne, known to help digestion & absorption. [1999 book]

LUNCH -
RAW vegetable salad with various home-made salad dressings which
may include one or more tblsp FO blended with 1 or 2 tblsp organic
low-fat CC plus one tblsp organic apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
and spices. Or, for sweeter dressing, try FO & red grape juice or
another fruit juice. You can vary the salad dressings based on the
recipes in the Oil-Protein Diet Cookbook. Several recipes do not
include cottage cheese at all. The body can utilize 1 or 2 tblsp
oil without cottage cheese. Avoid commercial salad dressings.
Experiment with spices, honey or garlic for variety.

If still hungry, make baked or steamed veggies and grains. [See dinner]

LUNCH DESSERT: Repeat the breakfast recipe with varied fresh raw fruits
(organic if possible). This is the second FO/CC serving of the day:
three tblsp flax oil & 6 tblsp CC with fresh fruit but NO flaxseeds.
Smaller amounts of food are digested better. Work up to six tblsp FO,
if possible, mixed with twice as much CC, depending on digestive
ability and size. Chew very well to optimise digestion. Predigestion
starts in the mouth by mixing saliva with the foods. Try to have your
meals in a peaceful atmosphere. Stress reduction is important.

MID-AFTERNOON -
Two tblsp whole flaxseeds, freshly ground, stirred into a glass of
sparkling wine or Champagne OR one tblsp flaxseeds, ground and
stirred into a glass of fruit juice: grape, cherry or pineapple.
Chew the ground flaxseeds for better digestion. Repeat 1/2 hour later.

RELAX, in sunlight if possible, TO RELIEVE STRESS. Empty the mind of worries,
angers, fears. Focus on nature, music, chat, laughter, or what pleases you.
Think kind thoughts about yourself & others. Dr. Budwig said that relieving
stress is extremely important. Many research studies support this idea.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlaxSeedOil2/message/57568

LATE AFTERNOON -
One tblsp whole flaxseeds, ground & added to blueberry or papaya juice.
Both papaya & pineapple [above] have digestive enzymes if they
are fresh. Most bottled juices have lost their enzymes but still have
valuable nutrients. If making the juice, drink it immediately after
preparation before the enzymes are lost by air and light. You want
to get as many natural enzymes as possible [as well as electrons
from flax seeds & oils]. [Note: Instead of the fruit juices, some
members heal using homemade vegetable juices as described at 10 a.m.]

DINNER -
Vegetable soup or a variety of veggies and starch-containing foods,
well spiced. Add Oleolux and nutritional yeast flakes after cooking.
Nutritional yeast adds important B-vitamins which boost energy & mood.
Choices of cooked starchy foods - buckwheat (JB's top choice-digests well &
very nutritious), millet, brown rice, lentils, beans, peas, yams & potatoes.
Add lightly cooked vegetables such as kale, tomatoes, spinach, beets, carrots,
chard, cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli, onions, artichokes, asparagus,
peppers, green beans, etc. Also, add healthful spices such as cayenne pepper,
paprika, turmeric & others. AFTER COOKING, add homemade Oleolux 'to taste,'
which adds more nutrition and satiates appetite. [Oleolux recipe in File 5].
Use also as a spread on bread [whole or sprouted grain, homemade or Ezekiel].

EVENING -
A glass of organic red wine if desired.

The above diet can be varied by the many recipes in Dr. Budwig's
book "The Oil-Protein Diet Cookbook," sold on Amazon and Barlean's
websites for about $10.

THE FOLLOWING IS VERY IMPORTANT:
Dr. Budwig stressed that we must AVOID UNHEALTHY FOODS
and SUBSTANCES such as hydrogenated fats, trans-fats, animal fats
[other than in cheese]; avoid butter, sugar, white flour, preservatives,
processed foods, pesticides and chemicals, even those in household
products & cosmetics. Drink chemical-free, filtered water if possible.

++ Avoid leftovers - food should be prepared fresh and eaten soon
after preparation to maximize intake of health-giving electrons &
enzymes.

++ At least 3x a day drink warm green or herbal teas, unsweetened or
sweetened only with honey.

++ Stress is very damaging. Avoid stress and anxiety; take time to
relax & enjoy each day. Listen to beautiful music, laugh, do deep
breathing, connect with nature, spend time with people you like.
Eliminate anger and sadness through EFT, counseling, support
group or some method of letting go of it.

++ ELDI oils are oils for external application. Dr.Budwig had her
patients use them extensively. [See Files for information] .

++ Dr.Budwig did not include supplements in her protocol.
Also, as far as we can tell, she did not use drugs with her protocol
and generally discontinued those that were taken.
Some supplements, especially high amounts of man-made antioxidants,
can seriously interfere with how well the diet works, as can
some drugs and treatments (particularly cytostatic [chemo and
radiation] treatments, cortisones, hormones and many pain killers).
She also warned against the dangers of ozone and oxygen therapy
for the cancer patient. Ozone resulted in death for some members.

++ The foods in the Budwig Protocol give your body what it needs
daily to stop cancer. Dr. Budwig warned that you should follow
the diet strictly for three years before relaxing a little, but
you can never stop these foods for more than a few days, and you
cannot regularly include damaging foods or supplements. Doing so
may allow the cancer to return. This has happened to some members.

++ Take care of your teeth. If there are hidden infections, they
could interfere with your improvement.

Dr.Budwig's book "Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart
Infarction, Cancer and other Diseases" offers an understanding of
the scientific principles behind this protocol. Her cookbook
"The Oil-Protein Diet" gives practical diet information and recipes.
Both of these books can be ordered from www.Amazon.com or from
www.Barleans.com for about $10. Excerpts are in our files section.

Her newest (and last) book, "Cancer-The Problem and The Solution,"
written in 1999, is available from http://www.nexus-book.com
Excerpts from this book are in the Links Section of our group
along with Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ]& other information.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlaxSeedOil2/links/

To read more information, many testimonials of those who regained
their health with the Budwig Protocol, and excerpts from FLAX OIL
AS A TRUE AID..., click here for the Files Section of the group.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlaxSeedOil2/files/