Janice has been a guiding member of FlaxSeedOil2 for many years. Her husband stopped liver cancer by following the Budwig plan. Below is a message she posted for the group.https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FlaxSeedOil2/conversations/messages/105284

I understand that even with JB's books and the material in the files, it can be hard to get a handle on what to eat, and that is even harder when also dealing with the fact of a cancer diagnosis.

Not being in the medical profession, I can't make recommendations, but I am happy to do a bit of organizing of JB's advice and things that have been mentioned here to make BP a little easier to follow. I assume that what you are asking for (in your email to my personal account) is a simple list of what to avoid, rather than of a list of what to eat, since most fruits, vegetables, and grains are permitted. (By the way, some here try to avoid wheat gluten, and any seeds or grains should be eaten in their whole form, not with the "germ" part removed. Some like the Ezekiel breads made from sprouts, but read the labels because there are several kinds.)

So here's a general list of things not to eat. It is partially based on things in the files that have been posted here. Anyone, please feel free to add or correct!

BAD THINGS:Dr. Budwig stressed that we must AVOID CANCER-PROMOTING FOODS, so keep away from:hydrogenated oilstrans-fatsanimal fats/proteins [as in meats, poultry,seafood, eggs & butter] So this is essentially a vegetarian diet. (For people who have to travel a lot, she did permit eating fresh fish, baked without any oils, boiled, or steamed, a few times a year.)cane sugar (regular sugar)agave & maple syrupspreservatives,highly processed foods (including bottled sauces)

In fact, if you look at the list of what is in most processed foods, you will often find sugar, "forbidden" fats and oils (including flax oil, if the food has been cooked during the processing), unfermented soy in one form or another, preservatives, corn and corn products, supplementary and/or artificially-derived vitamins and minerals, and so on.)

This means that you shouldn't eat things like the breakfast cereals sold in stores, probably most pasta sold in stores, things with ajinomoto in them, and so on. Always look at labels.

No oils or fats except the (2%) fat in the cottage cheese and in small amounts of natural cheeses, flaxseed oil, the coconut oil in Oleolux, and a bit of pumpkin oil (occasionally used for flavoring). Canola oil, soy oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, peanut oil--should all be avoided, even though their ads may claim that they are good. No fried foods at all. (The reason why we are told to eat RAW, not roasted nuts, is to avoid the heat damage that would be done to their oils in the roasting process.)

No corn in any form. There is a good reason for this, which you can probably read about if you do a search for messages about it on the forum.

No peanuts or products containing them. They can contain molds. In California, almonds are also iffy. Some order them from elsewhere; some probably eat California almonds; but the reason given for avoiding them is that in this state, the law requires them to be "pasturized," which I assume means subjected to high temperatures, if only for a brief time, and means that they are not raw.

No unfermented soy products. This means that tofu is out, but natto (Japanese fermented soy beans), miso (fermented bean paste, used in soups and dressings), soy sauce (I think that most here favor the kind that goes by the name of Tamari.), and tempeh (an Indonesian form of fermented soy beans in which they are all bound together with the white mycellium of a special fungus) are good. Some health food stores carry tempeh, but there is a world of difference in the taste if you make it yourself. It still tastes good after being frozen. Natto is especially useful as a source of vitamin K. We buy a lot of natto at one time and freeze it.

In general, no supplements. This does not mean that you can't eat things such as herbs, turmeric (which is very good for people fighting cancer, and my husband puts the powder into his soups), goji berries, raw seeds and nuts, and other things sometimes classed as supplements, but which are really whole foods in themselves.

Bad: Artificially derived supplements and supplements that consist only of particular nutriments (such as vitamins) that have been either made using chemicals or removed from the foods that contained them and put into capsules/pills, etc., ESPECIALLY the kinds of supplements touted as "antioxidants". Many foods allowed on BP do contain antioxidants, but antioxidants are all right when consumed as part of a fruit, etc. One reason for this is that when nutriments are taken in from fruits and vegetables, they come along with other nutriments that act synergistically with them to your benefit. You are also unlikely to take too much of any one thing, if eating a balanced diet of fresh produce. In addition, BP works in a way different from that of antioxidants, which can result in negating its effects.

Sandra Olson, our much-appreciated moderator, has posted a good rule of thumb for deciding when we might need to take an artificial supplement: Only when blood or other reliable tests have shown that we are lacking something important. This has happened to some of us in the case of vitamin D3, for example, as some here are unable to get enough sun to make enough of it, and it is very important to the immune system. My husband's doctor also advised him to take vitamin K2, but he ate a lot of natto instead, and the doctor didn't say any more about it, so I guess that did the trick.

Drink pure water if possible.

Eat organic if you can, but don't obsess about it. We all just do what we can and try not to worry about what we can't do. After a year or two on BP, finances forced us to switch to non-organic cottage cheese at CostCo, and we stopped eating so many organically-grown vegetable and fruit, as well, although kind friends often supply us with things from their gardens.

Nutritional yeast is recommended for its vitamin B content, especially B12. (It is available in health food stores. It is not the same as brewer's yeast!) Sprinkle it over foods. I love the flavor of it, but start with small amounts. Too much gives me stomach cramps; fortunately, my husband, who is the one fighting cancer, can eat all he wants with impunity.

RAW nuts, especially Brazil nuts and walnuts are good. My husband eats them at lunch with his FOCC. Do not eat roasted nuts, as they contain oils, which will be changed for the worse by the heat of roasting. I was surprised to find that raw nuts don't taste all that different from roasted ones, anyway. In addition to Brazils and walnuts, we eat pecans, cashews, hazel nuts (=filberts) and others.

Soba (Buckwheat) seeds are very good, as are quinoa, brown rice, millet, and other grains, as well as many kinds of beans and lentils--peanuts excepted, of course.

For sweetening, you can eat honey (in moderation, and preferably raw, especially make sure it isn't adulterated with corn syrup--which is a HUGE no-no--or anything else) Several months ago I read in a Dr. Mercola newsletter that most commercial honey in the supermarkets has been adulterated, and in the worst cases, it contained no pollen at all, which means it wasn't really honey, but was only claiming to be. You can find pure honey and raw honey in health food stores, and the newsletter pointed out that the honey sold at Trader Joe's (Hopefully, there is one near you.) passed the strict tests. I forget what organization did the testing, but the report was impressive.

Many here eat sea salt or pink Himalayan salt in preference to commercial salts, in order to get the extra minerals that come along with natural salt.

My husband and I also eat various kinds of seaweeds (he being Japanese), and I think a lot of the people here eat some seaweed, too.

It has been mentioned on the forum that glass containers are preferred to cans, as undesirable things from the linings or walls of cans can get into the food. I don't know to what extent people here are avoiding canned goods. My husband and I only eat them once in a while, and only if they are organic and the labels don't contain anything bad.

So--while observing the above restrictions and recommendations, go ahead and enjoy eating all sorts of whole foods. You'll find that you can have quite a varied diet.

Janice B.