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Let your food be medicine and your medicine be food.
~Hippocrates, the Father of Western Medicine

Has This Diet Been Proven Effective in Clinical Studies?

Question:
Has the effectiveness of this dietary regimen been proven in clinical trials?

Answer:
There is no simple answer to this question. Everything in the cancer-fighting diet-- the foods and individual supplements-- has been studied scientifically, reported in scientific our medical journals, and is included because it has the ability to fight cancer or keep it from developing. More important, they foods and supplements are safe and not harmful under most circumstances.

Some of the studies have been conducted with cancer cells grown outside the body in cultures, some have been done with laboratory animals (such as Dr. Miller's own studies on Echinacea and ginseng), and others have involved human subjects.

"Randomized controlled clinical trials" are considered the gold standard for demonstrating the effectiveness of a treatment. They are experiments involving people selected according to specific criteria and then randomly placed in a group that receives one or the other of the treatments being studied.

These studies are extremely complex, typically cost millions of dollars, and take several years to complete. They test a single intervention-- one drug or treatment-- rather than a complex regimen such as the cancer-fighting diet.

Although some randomized trials are sponsored by non-profit organizations or government agencies, most are funded by the health care industry and pharmaceutical companies. Businesses are unlikely to invest such time and money to study foods and food supplements, when there is no promise of future profits. (For example, the drug Avastin, used to treat colorectal and lung cancers, costs $5,000 a month, and Gleevec, used to treat leukemia, costs $92,000 a year. In contrast, food supplements can be bought for a few dollars at any grocery store or drugstore.)

So it is not likely that the diet or many of its components every will be tested in randomized controlled clinical trials. Is this a drawback? Not at all.

As stated simply but eloquently by George Ebers, MD, Professor of Neurology and specialist in Genetic Epidemiology and Immunology at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom:
"It's all very nice to have a randomized trial, but they are not the be all and end all. If we needed a randomized clinical trial, then we still wouldn't recognize that smoking caused lung cancer and contaminated water caused cholera."
(Medscape Medical News, from the 29th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, October 3, 2013)

Can Certain Foods Be Substituted for Others?

Low-fat Dairy Products
Question:
I am lactose intolerant. What can I substitute for low-fat milk and yogurt in your dietary regimen?

Answer:
Almond milk or soy milk may be substituted for low-fat milk. Note: Although some doctors think that soy mimics estrogen and could make some breast cancers grow faster, there is no evidence that this is true.

If you cannot eat yogurt take a good probiotic supplement containing a mix of different bacteria (especially Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium). Probiotics help maintain a healthy balance of microorganisms in the digestive system and reduce the growth of harmful bacteria. They may help to control diarrhea and prevent infections, and also could help control inflammation related to irritable bowel syndrome and colorectal cancer.

Oatmeal
Question:
I am on a gluten-free diet. What can I eat instead of oatmeal, wheat bread, and wheat crackers?

Answer:
Oats are included in the diet mainly because they minimize cholesterol accumulation, but oatmeal is not essential. Feel free to substitute quinoa or brown rice for oatmeal, and rice crackers and any gluten-free breads and crackers for regular breads and crackers.

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