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Nutrition for Fibrocystic Breasts Dietary Principles:
* Maintain a complex carbohydrate, high fiber diet.
* Limit protein to 10% of your total calories, fat to 22%.
Therapeutic Foods and Spices:
Citrus peels, beets, carrots, artichokes, lemons, parsnips, dandelion greens, watercress, burdock root, vegetables, nuts, seed oils, (Evening primrose oil, flaxseed oil, black currant oil), sour foods, pumpkin seeds, and tumeric
Fresh Juices: (Try each one until you find a juice that benefits you.)
Carrot and spinach Carrot, beet, and cucumber Lemon juice in warm water
Foods, Beverages and Medications to Avoid:
Oral contraceptives, meat, hot sauces, spicy, fried, fatty, or salty foods, caffeine, pesticides, methylxanthines: coffee, black tea, chocolate, colas, and estrogenic foods: animal products, apples, cherries, olives, plums, carrots, yams, peanuts, soy products, coconut, brown rice, barley, oats, wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant.
Specific Supplements:
Vitamin E - 800 I.U. a day (Start at 200 I.U. and build up slowly over a 4 week period.)
Flax oil - 2 Tbsp. a day
Iodine - SSKI 30 mg. - Available at health food stores
MAX EPA - 1500 mg. 2 x day
Vitamin A - 25,000 a day
B-complex - 75 mg. 1 x day
Lipotropic factors as a supplement
Lactobacillus/Acidophilus: 1 x day (keep refrigerated)
Chelated zinc - 5 mg. a day
Chelated copper - 10-25 mg. a day
Pumpkin seeds (raw) - one handful a day
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