healthy eating

I'm in awe of my doctors and their ability just to stay current in their relative fields of experttise. I think it's unreasonable to also expect them to  be across all of the research into food. 

We're obviously not reading the same posts and I have seen several posts on this site that state categorically that a certain food or supplement will cure or prevent cancer without any reference to any research that backs this up. There's also links to people like 'Doctor Mercola' and reference to a number of other dubious sites. 

The reason I responded was because I think your statement about there being no harm in trying things on the basis that they can't hurt you can be incorrect. People can jeopardise their treatment with supplements or radical diets, or even by just eating far too much of something that would be healthy in normal quantities. I wanted to offer an alternative view because I think people need to be very careful about what they eat.

My oncologist has expressed her frustration regarding mushroom based supplements and alkaline diets along with anit-oxidant supplements. While all of these might be fine when we're out of chemo, we shouldn't risk counteractive foods or supplements. 

When it comes to recommendind alternative treatments I'm with Tim Minchin: "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work? Medicine."