Quick Upgraded Paleo Checklist for Family & Friends

I have a twenty-something-year-old cousin and a seventy-something-year-old grandfather who both were recently diagnosed with cancer.  I am greatly saddened by this. Whenever my doctor declines my request to have a mammogram because I’m under forty, I tell them about my young cousin’s breast cancer.  As expected, they extend their sincerest apologies and immediately ask if I have a history of breast cancer in my family—to which my answer is “NO.”

The onset of cancer in my family and many others’ is all just happening now and targeting younger and younger victims. Again, my cousin was in her early twenties when she was diagnosed. Although I cannot pinpoint exactly what caused the illnesses of my family members, I do know that my cousin ate out a lot. She didn’t eat fast food much, but she did eat it. She definitely preferred “high quality” and expensive restaurants in Los Angeles where she grew up or in New York where she lived during college. Fine dining doesn’t always mean high quality! Restaurants are in the business of making money, getting food from the cheapest sources they can find for good enough ingredients. My cousin also did not partake in a lot of physical work, including exercise, but boy was she supermodel thin! From what I observed from her eating, she, like almost all young women because of the nefarious lies they’ve been told, stayed away from “fatty food” but did not cut back on junk food or sugar.

My grandfather lives in the Philippines. Although you might imagine the food on islands being a lot cleaner than in the U.S., it is still very populated with preservatives and very much influenced by developed countries. Industrialization has not been kind to us all in this way.

Cancer can invade the young, the old, and even those who consider themselves “healthy” as they follow conventional advice. 

Below you’ll find a letter I wrote to my parents describing my own transformation from a specific set of changes in my lifestyle. It enumerates a set of guidelines that we believe encompass the best-known way to live in order to heal pretty much any and all ailments, including cancer:

Hi Dad & Mom,

…I’d highly recommend that grandpa and our cousin especially because of their condition  to eat organic, grass fed meats with lots of its natural fat (1/2 of the diet) along with your organic vegetables. Here is a website of an organic Filipino company I found that sources grass fed meats that sells near where they live in the Philippines. They have one in QC, Makati, Alabang, etc.

 

I really do feel a lot stronger and healthier than how I was when I was in high school. I am able to do push ups with one leg up in the air and other foot on the ground! An instructor at the gym called me a “pretzel,” because I am very flexible and can bend my back backwards. My chronic back pain is totally gone. I don’t get sick when everyone else around me is sick. You don’t discover that you can be this physically strong when you’re nearing 30… if I was born with this, I would’ve found out at least when I was a teenager or a child! I was never an athlete. This is all because of the diet and lifestyle change.

 

I’ve also heard from people curing their cancers with a food and lifestyle change. I talk to people who really believe that cancer is no threat to humanity, but humanity is a threat to themselves because of what we choose to eat and what info we choose to ignore. God did give us the earth to dominate and to eat from, but we also destroyed the earth with our “advancements.”

 

Please hear me out. Even when I see you listen to my words, I don’t see that you actually believe in it. I can tell by the way you respond to me. You shrug it off in your minds thinking that this is just a fad, that I am young, that I don’t have the experience and medical or nutrition degree, etc. I don’t know how to convince you otherwise, besides the fact that I’VE SEEN THIS LIFESTYLE WORK. I can’t blame you for not believing me, but once people in our families develop cancer and their bodies shrivel away because of that instead of natural old age, you’ve got nothing to lose when you give my advice a chance.

 

 The cost of buying organic is nothing compared to the cost of eating inorganically with a sedentary lifestyle leading up to degeneration of cells = cancer. Medical doctors will tell you to do the opposite of what I will list here shortly, but that’s because they aren’t taught nutrition and they get their living with each prescription they write.

 

So for those who didn’t get my link earlier, here it is: Low Carb Paleo Diets vs. Cancer: A Follow-up Note To Steve Jobs.  It’s an interesting article on cancer and low carb.

 

Please follow these guidelines:

• No grains (especially bread and cereal, whole grains, pasta, oatmeal, pastries)
• a very small amount of white rice (organic jasmine is best, cooked in spring water or spring water and grass fed butter)
• Sweet potatoes (one small one per day in place of rice, does not need to be organic)
• Avocados (no need to be organic, but organic is great)
• Olive oil (try not to cook using this; just use as a dressing or over food after cooking)
• Coconuts & coconut oil (no need to be organic, but organic is great)
• Absolutely NO SUGAR of any kind (white/bleached, brown, syrups from any source, ketchup, pre-made spaghetti sauce or sauces or anything with sugar in the ingredients)
• Organic vegetables (sometimes raw, sometimes steamed; serve with lots of butter and himalayan pink sea salt or just regular SEA salt, not table salt or iodized)
• Sea salt (see above).
• Grass-fed butter – A LOT OF THIS. We each eat about a half a stick of unsalted Kerrygold butter daily.
• Grass-fed beef, liver, heart, tongue etc.
• Eat dark meat chicken like wings, thighs, drumsticks. Don’t eat much of the lean chicken breast. There’s too much protein and fat low. Too much protein with little fat in the ratio is bad (gluconeogenesis = body converts to glucose).
• Free-range organic eggs (do NOT buy omega-3 enriched eggs; they are bad for you)
• Wild-caught fresh or frozen fish (NEVER get Atlantic or farmed fish; this is absolutely crucial), buy especially sockeye salmon, trout, summer flounder, petrale sole, haddock, anchovies (dilis), sardines, herring (tuyo)— these can be canned but avoid veg/soy/canola oil, sugar, preservatives mixed in.
• 50-60% fat (9-11 servings of fat), 20-30% protein (4-6 servings), the rest vegetables (7-10 servings)
• Very little fruit (1 every other day); ONLY berries, coconut, lemons/limes, tangerines, pineapples
• Do NOT partake in long-distance running or aerobic activity other than short intense spurts or sprints of aerobic activity (1 to 10 minutes)
• Lift weights and do strength training as your primary source of exercise; intense bursts will build up your immune system, but obviously start with low weights and build up as you can tolerate; read the following article: Why Exercise Should Be Part of Standard Cancer Care
• Yoga is a great exercise for flexibility, strength, releasing of toxins, and proper breathing (we shouldn’t be breathing too much O2 as we inhale).
• Get adequate sleep and sunlight
• Supplement Vitamins C, K2, and D; we can give you the brands we like for this because they are from clean sources
• Cook in 350deg F or below, a bit higher is not too bad but keep it low
• Use spring water to cook along with grass fed butter/coconut oil
• Spring water for drinking
• No peanuts or cashews. Eat all the other nuts, especially almonds when you want to snack. Cashews can be tolerated by most, but I find that’s it’s better to avoid them because they are the carbiest kind of nut/legume.
• No corn, corn products, food with corn in it, or food made from corn. That includes chips.
• For sweetening, use stevia, xylitol, or erythritol only.
• For spices, use only fresh and organic. If you absolutely need to use dried, use organic or the ones that are in supplement pills (ex. cayenne). Garlic, ginger, black pepper, and onions are okay in moderation like when eating out, but I generally avoid these for the mycotoxins in them
• Avoid most canned meats except for sardines that don’t have sugar or veg/canola/soy oil
• AGAIN, EAT A LOT OF GRASS FED BUTTER/FATS. 1/2 of your meal! Very important. Too little in this diet will not make you feel good. This is essential for building your body’s cells. Protein is not greater than fats.
• No yogurt even organic. Yogurt has histamines. Try a brand called Amasai (which you can buy online, low or no histamines).
• No cheeses except for goat, sheep, or raw cheddar
• For hotdogs, the only brand there is out there that I know that is organic, grass fed, has no bad oils, or sugar is Applegate the Great Organic Beef Hotdog. Avoid the Applegate bacons, because they have sugar. I only eat their organic beef hotdogs.

 

FOODS YOU CAN EAT ALL THE TIME NOT ORGANIC (because they are not heavily sprayed or the pesticides don’t seep through as much inside):

Coconut, coconut oil, avocados, asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, sweet potatoes

FOODS HEAVILY SPRAYED IN PESTICIDES (you want to buy these organic):

apples, carrots, celery, cherries, cucumbers, grapes, green and red bell peppers, green beans, kale, lettuce, nectarines, peaches, pears, spinach, and strawberries

With these guidelines, you can make fantastic tasting meals. You can even make ice cream, cookies, and cupcakes if you want out of these ingredients. It’s surprisingly easy to make. Just google “Paleo recipes” for starters. We however want to take it one step higer than paleo, so we also get rid of mycotoxins in our food.

 

EATING OUT

It’s hard to eat out with these guidelines, but if and when you do eat out, you customize your meals so you get your meat, veggies, and your choice or rice or sweet potatoes cooked in butter instead of their oils. Do not drink their tap water. Ask for or bring your own spring water. The spices in their food should be okay for once in a while eating out, but try to make sure none of their ingredients have sugar. Ask the waiter to ask the cook. It’s safest to order red meat and chicken than it is to order fish. Unless it’s a small fish (herring or anchovies size) or labeled as wild caught, most fish at restaurants are farm raised. Farm raised fish are the worst kind to eat for your body. If anything else, just pack food when travelling. Also, bring your own sea salt to avoid using theirs.

Most restaurants don’t cook their burgers or steaks in oils but instead with their own fat. Good news! If you can, avoid the rice cooked with veg/canola/soy oil when eating out. If the meat is marinated, ask if the marinade has veg/soy/canola oil or sugar, and avoid that meat.

A safe & cheap place to eat out is Chipotle (not Qdoba). They cook in rice bran oil (not too great but not too bad either). Get either steak/barbacoa only for meats because the marinade is safe. You can get their white rice, sauces, pico, guac, maybe their sour cream but I don’t eat it myself because it’s not grass fed, and their lettuce. Look for fast food places that are Chipotle style and ask what their oils are. For restaurants, you can customize a bit more by requesting.

 

EXTRAS

If you want to move on further, here are some things you don’t have to do just yet but maybe later if you feel like you want to go further:

• I don’t use shampoos or soaps when showering at all. I just use water. For really dirty areas, I use a bit of soap that’s not antibacterial. This is called “No Poo.”
• I walk barefoot outside with Rob whenever we can to get both sunlight on our bodies and grounding electrons from the earth to our bodies, even during winter. Take nature walks!
• no fluoride toothpaste
• no chlorine in water or products, so that means no using pools, hot tubs, or steam saunas with chlorine
• There are more, but I’m just giving you some to start!

If you need us to cook for you (this goes for Daddy Winston & Erika) to help kickstart this new way of living, feeling better is guaranteed and we will gladly help!!! Just let us know and give us a call. Though clean eating may be difficult at first to do, it’s WORTH every penny you spend on it! It saves lives, and I believe God gave us this knowledge thousands of years ago. Just look at the old testament’s diet guidelines. It is practically similar to what this diet has. Although we are taught to not have to follow the OT because of Christ’s coming, that was meant for SALVATION purposes. If you want to live longer for your loved ones on earth who need you and want you to be healthy, the OT is a great start for diet. The OT also talks about a lot of things we avoid not just with food but with housing and things (mold free or little mold) that contribute to better health.

Anyway, please give us a call for questions and clarifications. We love you. We want to see you be in the best shape you can.

Love,

Rachel (and Rob)