‘Reduce your fat intake.’ Over the years, this has been the slogan of the American Heart Association, World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health. They propose to reduce the fat intake to 30% of the required calories in a day. But, this general reduction of fat deprives the body of the good fats, which are essential for it, along with the bad ones. Sometimes, people resort to take fat-free products like sugar or refined carbohydrates that are easily digested, in lieu of the good fats. (more…)

There are all kinds of diets and food plans out there. Ask just about any women and she’ll tell you to name a diet and she have been on it. There’s a grape diet, a cabbage soup diet, which is fun for all concerned and an eat anything you like but stop at 4pm diet. We’re all heard of the Atkins diet and we’ve probably all heard of the low GI diet, both are quite popular at the moment. There is, however, one diet that no one should ever like to be on and that is the eating for cancer diet. The obvious prerequisite is that you should have cancer of some kind and be about to undergo treatment.
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