Chemotherapy, prescription drugs and a life filled to the brim with medical appointments is a life faced by millions of colon cancer survivors, but one man defied the social norms – and thousands of dollars of debt – and faced cancer with one tool: vegetables.
John Morales was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. With no medical insurance, Morales had limited options along with a grim past he couldn’t forget.
“My sister had breast cancer and I’m convinced that it was her medical treatment that killed her, not the cancer so I wasn’t about to take part in chemotherapy like she did,” says Morales. “I read about raw vegetables and how it turned around the health of all these people and I thought that was a good idea so I started eating raw vegetables. I wasn’t a big fan at first. It tasted gross.”
Morales goes on: “I used to eat a lot of meat and hardly any vegetables so adapting to a diet with just raw vegetables was pretty tough, but I after I found out about meat, it was pretty easy to tell you the truth. I bought this book online about cancer and alternative remedies. It told me step-by-step what to do on this diet and it worked well for me. It was hard though.”
“I learned that meat is pretty toxic to the body so I stopped eating it. I think all the meat I’ve eaten over the decades caused my colon cancer. Over the years, the cancer shrunk and I’m pretty healthy right now.
“All without the chemo. I’m pretty blessed.”
Yet an all vegetable diet as a method to beat cancer does have its protractors. In a study published by The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 142,605 men and 335,873 women in Europe ate vegetables for an average of nearly nine years. Eating an increased level of vegetables was associated with a tiny amount which amounted to an “insignificant amount.”
