Health Tips

For those in the West, cancer is seen as a scourge but a few modifications is all it takes to start on the road to a cancer reduced, if not a cancer-free diet.

Western diets consist of large amounts of red or processed meat. Add to these white bread and pasta with French fries and desserts with lashings of sugar, and you are on the way to a recipe for colon cancer.

Yet dietary adjustment is easy and need not be dramatic. All you need is the help of fruit and vegetables to turn this regular diet into a super anti-cancer diet.

To do this, start adding an extra serving of vegetables and one of fruit into your regular diet and start eating a little less of your normal food to make room.

Then, once you are used to this, start to cut down on the meat and add in a couple of fish meals a week.

Now, two further changes, substitute wholemeal bread for white bread and cut down on sugary foods and drinks but do this a little at a time. Your body needs to get used to the new tastes and the lack of sugar.

There you are! Suddenly your diet, while not ideal, is much less likely to cause you problems. As an added bonus, eating a diet high in fruit and vegetables and wholemeal foods with less sugar will help you lose weight if you combine it with exercise.