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If you want to reduce your risk for getting cancer, heart disease, diabetes and a host of other diseases, the message is clear - eat a nutrient-rich, low-fat, high fiber diet, with plenty of fruit and vegetables. So why is this wisdom forgotten when a person is diagnosed with cancer, and the standard advice becomes: "Eat whatever you want, whatever you can tolerate," even when this may include a diet high in fat and refined sugars. \n\nAccording to two of the country's leading authorities on cancer and nutrition, David Katz, MD and Keith Block, MD, the typical American high-fat, empty calorie diet can set the stage for an inflammatory response that actually fuels a cancer patient's disease, undermines treatment, and promotes malnutrition.

Intravenously administered vitamin C as cancer therapy: three cases.\nPadayatty SJ, Riordan HD, Hewitt SM, Katz A, Hoffer LJ, Levine M.\nCMAJ. 2006 Mar 28;174(7):937-42.\nPMID: 16567755 \ndoi:10.1503/cmaj.050346.

Egg consumption and endothelial function: a randomized controlled crossover trial. Katz DL, Evans MA, Nawaz H, Njike VY, Chan W, Comerford BP, Hoxley ML. Int J Cardiol. 2005 Mar 10;99(1):65-70. PMID: 15721501 Conclusion: Short-term egg consumption does not adversely affect endothelial function in healthy adults, supporting the view that dietary cholesterol may be less detrimental to cardiovascular health than previously thought