November 15th, 2010 By: David Gutierrez Eminent geologist Jane
Plant is now promoting a dietary program for the treatment of
cancer, saying that going dairy-free and eating cancer-
protective foods helped cure her breast cancer where
conventional Western medicine had failed. Plant was first
diagnosed with cancer at age 42. Over the next five years, the
cancer recurred four times “despite a radical mastectomy, three
further operations, 35 radiotherapy treatments, several
chemotherapy treatments and irradiation of my ovaries to induce
the menopause,” she writes in her book Your Life in Your Hands.
After the discovery of a cancerous lump in her neck, Plant came
across statistics detailing the low rates of breast and prostate
cancer in China. Since dairy is almost never consumed in China,
she cut it out of her diet entirely and limited her intake of
foods containing high levels of chemicals and hormones. She
built her diet around foods that have been shown to protect
against cancer. The idea of a connection betwee