To strengthen your body’s ability to fight cancer, you need to eat what I ate:
The biggest baddest healthiest salad on the planet!
It consists of raw organic vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts and homemade dressing.
This salad is super healthy, delicious and will fill you up without zapping your energy.
The Raw Vegan Diet was a huge part of my anti-cancer strategy and I ate this salad every day, sometimes twice a day, during the first few years of my Chemo-Free Cancer Battle.
I wanted to put as many vitamins, minerals, nutrients and enzymes into my body as possible and there’s no better way than Juicing and eating fresh raw organic fruits and vegetables.
There’s really no secret formula to this salad, but there are some guidelines to follow:
Absolutely no cheese, meat, fruit, or store-bought salad dressing.
It is important that you use organic produce, which is free of toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
And of course wash everything before you eat it. Then just chop it all up and throw it in a bowl!
Note: You’re gonna need a bigger bowl. Mine may not look that big in the picture, but it holds over 6 cups. That’s six servings of vegetables!
The Giant Cancer Fighting Salad
-I like to start with some dark green lettuce: Arugula, Spinach, Baby Romaine, Kale, Mache, etc. Most folks think of salads as a bowl full of lettuce. I’m light on the lettuce, heavy on the vegetables.
(Note: skip the iceberg lettuce, it has almost zero nutritional value.)
-Broccoli
-Cauliflower
-Slice of red onion
-Purple cabbage
-Squash
-Zucchini
-Artichokes
-Red, Yellow, or Green Peppers
-Shiitake and Bella Mushrooms
-1/2 an Avocado
-Raw Sunflower seeds (sprouted is better)
-Raw Almonds (sprouted is better)
-Sprouted Garbanzo Beans
-Sprouted Mung Beans
-Sprouted Lentils
-Other Sprouts: Alfalfa, Brocco, etc.
I like to top it off with either one of these naturally fermented foods:
-Bubbies Old Fashioned Sauerkraut
Bubbies is made with only three ingredients: cabbage, water and salt. It is fermented and cured with all natural enzymes intact and there is no vinegar added. (Bubbies Kosher dill pickles are super tasty too.)Look for it in the refrigerated section of your local grocer or health food store.
-Kimchi (Pronounced “Kim Chee”)
Kimchi is a spicy Korean version of sauerkraut typically consisting of fermented cabbage, onions, garlic, and pepper. Kim Chi has high concentrations of Vitamin C and Carotene in addition to Vitamin A, B1, B2, Calcium, Iron and beneficial lactic acid bacteria.
Recognized as one of the Top Five “World’s Healthiest Foods” by Health magazine. Also in the refrigerated section.
Repeat: Absolutely no cheese, meat, fruit, or store-bought salad dressing.
I know it seems weird to exclude fruit. Here’s why:
Fruits and vegetables need different digestive juices, and when eaten together can create excess acid and indigestion, and internal acidity promotes disease.
That is why they should be eaten separately. This even includes non-sweet fruits like tomatoes.
If you want to know more, there are entire books devoted to the subject of food combining.
My Homemade “Zesty Italian” Salad Dressing
This is hands down the healthiest salad dressing on the planet!
It’s super easy and delicious. Here’s how you make it:
-Liberally drizzle Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil over your salad
-Lightly drizzle Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vinegar to taste
Then shake on these Four Cancer Fighting Spices:
-Organic Oregano
-Organic Garlic Powder
-Organic Turmeric or Curry Powder
-Organic Cayenne Pepper
I can’t tell you many times I have eaten this salad! Over a thousand I bet.
And what’s funny is I have several books filled with of raw vegan meal recipes, but the Giant Salad ended up being my staple meal.
Most days I ate it for lunch and dinner. I didn’t care about eating the same thing every day, because it was simple and quick to prepare. I didn’t have to put much time into planning my meals and it’s so delicious and full of flavor it never got old!
Watch a video of me making this salad and dressing here.
For aspiring chefs out there who want some challenging raw food recipes, check out The Raw Gourmet by Nomi Shannon.
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Great site, I’m fighting stage 4 N.H. Lymphoma went through chemo and now in remission 6months mylow w.b.c. how to raise it naturally jucing now and trying to eat right .no more chemo for me, it tore my body down bad now trying to go alternate way ty.
Hi Chris, excellent site, treating my tongue tumor the raw food way and am sure it will be ok,it came back after surgery, not on raw diet at the time. Do you allow for cooked sweet potato or do you consume it raw?
Thanks Gerry! I eat cooked sweet potato.
80% raw 20% cooked was may main strategy for several years
I was diagnosed with CMML, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. My WBC was 35,000 when first diagnosed. It is now 19,000. I get my WBC checked every three months. Can you recommend anything to help build my immune system for this type of leukemia. Thank you.
I’ve read that freshly juiced organic beet juice is very good for leukemia as it purifies the blood.
In addition read about Romano Zago aloe arborescens recipe. If you can’t find the fresh leaves, it is available for sale. But make sure to get good quality.
Also read about Rick Simpson.
For more ways to boost the immune system check the cancertutor website. There are recommendations of very strong immune system supplements on the website.
Lots of health
This raw organic salad sounds a great idea but not too sure people like myself who unfortunately have IBS will benefit but possibly worth a try!
IBS means the doctor doesn’t know what is wrong with the digestive system.
The problem could be something like microscopic colitis which is hard to diagnose, as the colon looks find during colonoscopy, and the inflammation is visible only under a microscope. It is very important who performs the colonoscopy as not all doctors look for microscopic colitis or collagenous inflamation of the colon. Instead they just say it is IBS.
For microscopic colitis and other inflammations of the colon, jarro dophilus probiotics together with candid amazon can work wonders. As far as I know candid amazon is not available in most countries, but maybe you can get something similar.
Well wishes for life-long health my friend. Thank you for sharing your wonderful news & information.
Love & light.
OLE!Chris!! I’ve been going to a nutritionist working on her master’s degree ( http://www.karenhurd.com ) and has super explanations of health issues including cancer…I believe you and her that the right supplements will not interfere with chemo…she aims to work WITH the doctors, not against them. Of course you have to bump up your immune system with all the damage that chemo does. Legume beans are the absolute highest soluble fiber there is and will take out those toxins and fats circulating in the GI system because they can’t get through the membrane at the junction of the small and large intestines, thus exiting the bowel. In all the literature I’d read and things heard before I came up with breast cancer, I never ever heard that, only that “fiber” is good for you but not ‘why.’ And, you would have to eat multiple cups of oatmeal to equal just a fraction (1/2 or 1/3) of a cup of legume beans…any kind of legumes, prepared any way! So, this salad is fabulous. And, cancer is fed by/lives in sugar so adamantly refuse to eat it! (also estrogen, which can be suppressed with eating right…see website…I hope that is all right to recommend in addition to this GREAT site which I’ve signed up to get. THANK YOU for sharing this online!!
Posted once before. I’m the 66 yr. old lady with breast cancer. Eating my ‘Large’ salads everyday and enjoying them, like you, adding lots of variety and color! Only problem so far is my weight. I love finally getting to a healthy looking me (as people tell me this all the time, and my skin is also good…they say) but was worrying for awhile. Exercing good about 5-6 days mostly on treadmill but added weights to build my muscle too. Re-read all above messages and enjoy your site so much. As I also have heart blockage (stents done after 1st Chemo) I am fighting this as well…and having no problems so far. I’ve been encouraged to do all raw (mostly by my hubby and daughter) and yet I feel that I need some carbs like a piece of whole grain bread or baked potatoe a couple times a week. Did you ever have that feeling or need as your body may have told you? Just wondering…I know our bodies reactions may be different and I always consider this when reading any helpful cancer site. Keep up the good work of encouraging people here!
Hi Jeri
I recommend the coconut fruit smoothie, Manna Bread or Ezekiel Bread,
also a sweet potato a few times per week is a good carb source.
Sheila you are spot on with your health tips for cancer prevention and for treatment. It is amazing to me that almost every Oncologist is trained to tell the patient that supplements and diet would interfere with their Chemo results. What do they mean by that? Do not believe them.
Connecting with nature with your food choices to boost your immunity is your best defense against cancer. Cancer does not stand a chance against a strong immune system with a persons internal environment made hostile against this condition using potent whole plant based foods on rotation.
Right diet and exercise with some dry steam room therapy including cold showers in-between will open up all your elimination channels to expel waste and toxins.
I keep my plant based diet simple eating all the rainbow colors , herbs, vegetables,sprouted grains seeds and nuts, with coconut every day . Seaweed , dry medicinal mushrooms contain vitamin D and make a great tasting broth for many of my recipes.
Pineapple and Papaya fruit will provide natural enzyme nutrition to any meal.
If you do cook your food add lots of raw leafy greens and other vegetables with the meal always to support your liver and digestion.
Thats it for now I hope this information was helpful?
Barry Gourmet & Raw
Dear Chris beat cancer,
A lot of your subscribers I see are very informed and your content is excellent and informative. I am glad to sign up to take part in your wellness and health movement. Kim chi is loaded with Enzymes and natural probiotic friendly bacteria that supports your intestinal health. When I lived in Korea it was served often at every meal and is considered a health food in their country.
It works with many of my recipes and you can spice up your salad dressing with it in a blender.
With any raw foods including juices and smoothies you should eat ,chew,drink slowly to allow the natural digestive enzymes in your mouth to properly prepare your food chime for complete digestion. Digestion really does start in the mouth. Eat a rainbow diet of many colors and rotate ,and add variety at all times for complete nutritional support. I add Seaweed , sprouted nuts , sprouted seeds, and even sprouted legumes raw or blanched or lightly steamed.
If the meal is at least 50% Raw then there is less likely chance of your white blood cell count going up to combat the cooked foods meaning that your immune system is treating the cooked food like it is diseased and foreign to your digestive organs.
Chris is correct about eating fruits alone as fruits have a much faster transit time through your body compared to vegetables that take at least twice as long to digest and transit through the body. Mixing the 2 together would cause fermentation and a possible problem with assimilation of nutrients.
Some foods are OK to Blanch (Blanching is placing the Thick stems of the roots or greens into hot water for a while then take them out )add a bit of marination and your set to go. All leafy greens like broccoli and cauliflower can be eaten raw.
Your rainbow salad looks great and tasty Chris.
Barry Gourmet & Raw
Kimchi? Seriously? I just read this again and I’m terrified of Kimchi! A group of people opened some Kimchi in a train we were on and we thought we would die! It stinks so bad! Substitutes please!
I know the salads worked for you and I am happy for that, but I wonder about the fact that the broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are consumed raw in this salad. I have been a follower of Dr. Airola and he writes that these vegetables, as well as asparagus, rhubarb, spinach and any other in the cabbage family contain OXALIC acid when raw and should therefore be steamed or boiled (but not oversteamed or boiled, of course) before consumption. Have you ever heard anything about this?
Hi Sally
Yes I have. Dr. Norman Walker (the father of juicing) has the opposite opinion:
“When oxalic acid has become inorganic by cooking or processing the foods that contain it, then this acid forms an interlocking compound with calcium, even combining with the calcium in other foods eaten during the same meal, destroying the nourishing value of both. This results in such a serious deficiency of calcium that it has been known to cause decomposition of the bones.”
I’m not sure either is completely right… There have been studies that show this occur, but not to a level that is harmful.
Oxalic acid is not going to completely block nutrient absorption.
I eat spinach raw and cooked.
:)
There’s more info here: http://oxalicacidinfo.com/
hi Chris!
i want to start eating this salad, but i have reservations due to pastexperience with alot of raw veges especially broccoli. after eaten, my stomache will swell up with painful gas and bloating making me look like i am 7 months preganant. did you have any problems with this? any suggestions or ideas you have to help me avoid this unpleasant effect?
Hi Audra I don’t have any problems with that…
Sounds like a pretty serious reaction.
You might look into taking digestive enzymes with meals
and taking probiotics to repopulate your intestinal flora.
I like Garden of Life products, and they’re easy to find.
If that doesn’t help, I have no idea
I agree with Chris that taking digestive enzymes can help…you need to take a good multi-enzyme that breaks down the cellulose.
Also, don’t drink with your meals, chew your food well, and you can also puree your veggies which makes it easier on your stomach.
Hi Audra,
I also had the same symptoms of stomach bloating and swelling after a meal which then turned to stomach pain as time went on. I decided to get tested for a bacteria called helicobacter pylori and I tested positive. I took mastic gum instead of antibiotics and felt relief very quickly. It worked wonders for me. You might consider getting tested as well. There is a lot of information about h pylori and mastic gum on the web. Hope this helps!
i don’t have cancer but want to eat better and healthier. i dont get on the computer much considering my many roles (wife, mom to 2 toddlers, student, AND employee), so Chris what book would you recommend as “the most have” book to get me started on this journey AND how may i get your blogs to come to my email account which will be easier for me to follow since i have a so-called “smart phone”? ;) hats off to you and thank you for sharing!
This looks amazing, but how do you prepare raw artichokes for the salad?
Here’s how
http://www.cliffordawright.com/caw/tips.php/id/9/
Thanks!
You are sharing great staff. You are inspirational. We should do more for our brothers and sisters around the planet that do not know where to look for.
This is called unconditional love.
Nice to interact with you.
George
Thank you so much George!
You should think about adding BRAZIL NUTS to your salad too, for the selenium content, which is known to reduce cancers too, google it. I agree with mushrooms being great. Look into EPICOR too, its a kind of fermented yeast type product that was accidentally found to keep people amazingly healthy that worked at the plant making it for YEARS….so when people stopped calling in sick, they looked into it. It was originally being made for farm animal food, but then they made a human version called epicor. Vitamin D is known to keep cancers down, most americans are deficient in that. Also, instead of using olive oil, i use coconut oil, since it cures candida as its a FIERCE antiinflammatory, and some say candida is the precursor to cancer. Most people with cancer have/or had candida. Coconut oil destroys it, but go slow at 1st, to avoid feeling bad during detox. I love your list of food, but I would add chopped up garlic too. Walnut oil is said to be a natural ALA, cancer fighting tool that is all natural so a little drizzle of that would be great along w/ coconut oil, and yes, coconut oil is a very healthy oil. Lemons are great to getting your PH high, and I would toss in some spinich, and kale into my salad as well. I love turmeric and it provides TONS of energy and nutrition its rediculous while fighting off cancer. As far as supplements go, you should really check out pancreatic enzymes which are known to be the cleaning agent that goes into our bodies and gets rid of foreign matter like scarring, and tumors. its literally eats away at any proteins hiding around that ought NOT be there, like cancer, and helps destroy them. A great one I use now is virastop, but use any good one that has a range of enzymes. They also help us humans with digestion too which saves our body energy to clean house. I use chlorella and blue green algae, and spirulina in my daily shakes too with natural vitamin C like AMLA or CAMU-CAMU…i dont use synthetic anymore. Also try Vitamin E to build your immune system up strongly. Hope that helps. Cayenne is amazing. Take a pepper with turmeric to make is more than 10x stronger than when taken alone. Broccoli sprouts are SO much more potent than regular broccoli. I just add some water and blend the sucker up in my blender and drink it. Its sooo good for you packed with nutrition. Keep your PH over 7.5 also, since cancer is found in most cases with high acid people wiht PH under 7.0. Check it w/ PH strips or ph meter and keep it over 7.0. Baking soda, lemon juice, coral calcium all are known to get your ph higher. But all green leafy veggies also do…like spinich, kale, broccoli…anything high in chlorophyl. Love the site!! :) Sheila
Hey Sheila thanks for sharing so much good helpful info. It definitely helps validate my message.
I pretty much agree with everything you just said and even mention most of that stuff in various other posts on the site!
I eat Brazil nuts often, usually just by the handful, but yep they’d be great on a salad.
I eat a whole coconut nearly everyday and we use coconut oil for cooking so I use olive oil on my salads for variety.
I will definitely look into epicor and virastop…thanks!
Dear Chris,
I’m dutchwoman and my husband had Kalher its a cancer of the blood and bones. He was given 3 to 6 months to live and we start by eating fresh food growth natural.He had chemo. but now he is cancer free. A miracle for the doctor. Because the soft spots on his bones are gone and that happend never before. We believe that good food can help cure cancer. succes and be blessed.
My wife and I are giving these awesome salads a go. However, we think that some more protein is good so sometimes add a boiled egg. Any comment?
Also, I notice some advise keeping away from all fungus including mushrooms if fighting cancer but they do make it nicer.
Hi Ken!
I’ve never put egg on mine, but that’s probably the healthiest animal protein you could put on a salad.
I’m a huge fan of mushrooms.
Mushrooms have powerful immune boosting and anticancer properties, especially maitake, shiitake, and reishi.
Fungus could be a problem if you are on chemo and your immune system is compromised.
There is a mushroom supplement I took copious amounts of called Garden of Life RM-10. Google it.
Thank you, Chris.
I look forward to my daily salad. Mushrooms are a regular part of it with a boiled egg being an infrequent addition.
I have not gone so far as to try juicing yet as I like to get the fibre.
i’m just wondering why you have tomatoes pictured on your salad when you said not to eat fruits and non-sweet fruits like tomatoes together? and did you put all the veggies in the list above on a salad, or just a few? there is no way i could eat a salad that huge in one sitting!
Hah yeah! Cindy I’ve been waiting for someone to notice that! This is an early post and that is the best salad picture I could find online at the time.
(I’ve since updated the salad pic)
I do put them all in the salad and it’s huge! Hence the name.
I still recommend putting them all in there, just use a little bit of each. That way you’re making sure your body gets a wide variety of nutrients
every day. Watch the video I posted and you’ll see how I do it.
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ok i get it! you didn’t make that one. that explains the radishes (you didn’t even mention those:) and other stuff missing from the salad that is on your list.
sadly i cannot watch your video; i have dial-up, i have not downloaded updates ever, and there is a ton of spyware on my machine.
i had stage 3-c colon cancer in 2008. the tumor was on my right side. surgery and 9/12 chemo treatments then more surgery to repair a hernia. i got my yearly c.a.p ct scan last wednesday and my onc told me thursday that while my abdomen and pelvis came back ok there are spots on my lungs that were not there last time. they are very small so she referred me to a pulminologist whom i’m seeing this coming tuesday. if they are tumors, i cannot imagine doing chemo again. at least they are very tiny and maybe it’s nothing.
i am enjoying reading past blog posts, some have made me curious so i do some research on my own, like the one on the farmed fished. i found the pure salmon campaign site and holy crap! seems like nothing is safe, esp. when your fighting cancer!
Chris, you top the salad off with kimchi? Do you eat it any other way? I like it with a hot and spice noodle dish that my mom makes
Hey Angee, I really don’t eat it any other way. But it does sound good with noodles now that you mention it. I’ll have to give that a try!
I KNEW IT! Kimchi!!! I am half korean and I LOOOOOOOVVVEEE KIMCHI!!!!!! I’m so glad I don’t have to give it up!!!
I find the simple meals to be the most satisfying. I too, purchased many raw food books, read raw blogs, etc. and still, a nice salad, green smoothie, veggie platter, nut butter sandwich on sprouted grain bread, that’s what I live on. The kelp noodles are pretty good, and I’ve made some great meals with those. Good for you for doing all this! Question, where you a vegetarian before you started your diet shift? I was, so I think that made it easier on me than most.
Hi Shanna Thanks so much for your comments! Sounds like we eat exactly the same thing! Except I’ll have to try the kelp noodles. I was not a vegetarian, but it wasn’t hard to convert to raw vegan in 2004 with cancer staring me in the face. :)
Shanna can you send me some recipes with the kelp noodles? Please? Im trying this vegan thing. It’s not easy since Im so not used to eating veggies. But never fear Chris! LOL Im trying! Im gettng there I promise.