No more meat for me....
In a way I consider myself lucky. Since young, I never really enjoyed any type of meat. After being diagnosed with cancer, I read that I have to make sure my body is not acidic as cancer thrives in acidic environment. Meat is acidic. So naturally, this is the one thing to avoid. When I was going through chemotherapy, doctors and nurses' advise to me was I can eat anything I want, as I need the energy to fight this. This is true, I do need the energy but this is also conflicted from what I know my body needs. I know I can get the energy from a lot of sources other than meat, so I embarked on the no-meat diet from there on. I doubled up vegetables and had some fish. The menu was simple in the beginning, as chemo killed my taste buds. The only prominent taste that I could tolerate was sour. It's not advisable to eat out, so I cooked myself mostly. Having a typical Asian taste buds, my menu was like this: Brown Rice Porridge - boiled with a small piece of ginge