Tumours: the Mediterranean diet as basis of the Servan-Schreiber method

Everybody has cancer – cells in his/her body. Everybody can avoid them to grow with the help of natural defences. This is the point from where David Servan-Schreiber starts ( French wide – world famous psychiatrist and researcher ) in his book “Anticancer, a new life-style” presented in a meeting promoted with the Italian Association against tumours ( Lega italiana per la lotta contro I tumori ), the scientist sustains that “every person can build his/her anti-cancer biology, stimulating the natural defences”. In his book, that has already become a bestseller in France, Holland, Spain and Israel. “Toxins, food-style, emotions and physical activity are the basis of this method, a new frontier of science and research”. “We are living in a period of cancer – pestilence” he underlined that this disease has begun since the end of The Second World War “since our life-style has definitely changed” this pestilence has been spreading in every country joining the western life-style: involving also Chile, Argentina and Israel. The researcher affirms that there is the dangerous prejudice maintaining that cancer is mainly due to genetic factors, but our life-style is the most important factor. We can shelter from environmental changes, modifying first our diet – the diet proposed by Servan-Schreiber is similar to the Mediterranean diet. The olive oil, the white meat, fish ( sardines, mackerel, smoked herrings and salmon) five times a week; eggs, milk-products, vegetable and fruit at every meal; nuts, aromatic herbs, pulses, rice are the basic elements of the diet proposed in the book. But there is also an inner aspect not to be neglected , the doctor reminds: “understanding and overcoming the wounds of our psyche feeding the biologic mechanism of tumours and improving our relation to our body to stimulate our defences and calm the inflammations that favour cancer” these are the fundamental elements for the author who reveals he has won a brain cancer twice . The President of Lega Italiana Tumori has declared “ I have read this book as if it was a novel and I am sure this volume will reach all the people’s heart helping them to change their life style”.