Kitchen Rescue
Anti-cancer and wellness menu
By Reggie Aspiras
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:47:00 06/11/2008
Filed Under: Health, Food, Lifestyle & Leisure
MANILA, Philippines—I first heard of Judy Sim through Grace Yu, a student of mine who gave me a copy of Sim’s anti-cancer diet.
Sim and I have become friends.
She is a survivor—like a cat with nine lives. Hers is almost an incredible story. Born blind, she regained her sight when she turned one, through her mother’s love and care. When she was eight, she fell from the third floor of a building to a concrete pavement, injuring, as luck would have it, only a knee. Suffering from dysmenorrhea, at age 18, she took medicine that destroyed her thyroid gland.
In 1964, while enrolled in graduate school in the US, she met a car accident and was given a very slim chance of survival. She went into a coma. When she emerged from the coma, she underwent surgery eight times, between 1964 and 1981, to save fractured bones.
After that, she suffered from osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, also from pancreatitis that led to complications.
In 1995 in San Francisco, as she was getting off a bus, her neck got entangled in a strap of the moving bus—a freak accident that almost killed her.
Also around this time, she drank, by mistake, a highly corrosive hydrogen peroxide solution.
In March 2005 her digestive system stopped functioning, apparently due to pesticide and chemical residues from food she’d been taking for years.
Without a doubt, Judy Sim is one amazing woman of great charisma and charm. In encounters with her, you can’t but feel her purity and serenity.
A staunch believer in alternative medicine, a pancreatic cancer survivor diagnosed in 1992, she healed herself, you could say, through research—and faith. “This is just my way, not the only way, nor the best way, nor am I claiming it to be 100 percent effective. But to those I have shared it with, the diet had changed their lives and healed them. It is an alternative means to wellness,” she said.
“All I desire in the remaining years I have left, the length of which only the Lord knows, is to share. Share what I know, share what I have learned so others may benefit. I have survived and refuse to surrender to cancer and today, I am sharing what worked and continues to work for me.”
Judy Sim’s anti-cancer and wellness menu, with handy guide to recovery
Part 1
Upon waking up, drink at least two glasses of warm water to induce bowel movement
Breakfast:
Slow-cooked Quaker oats (not quick or instant), topped with sliced fresh green onions, fresh turmeric—luyang dilaw, garlic
You may add 6 pcs raw ground almonds/walnuts
Vitamin and mineral supplements
Lunch:
Fresh organic salad (Romaine lettuce, tomato, carrot, celery, cucumber, sprout vegetables)
6 pcs ground almonds or walnuts with extra virgin olive oil and lemon dressing
Topped with sliced fresh green onions, turmeric/luyang dilaw, garlic
You may add seaweeds, fresh or dried (unseasoned)
Or add ground nuts (6 pcs almonds or walnut) and/or 1 tbsp ground flax seed
Or add lentils (green, red or yellow), garbanzos and beets, except soy beans
Dinner:
Fresh vegetable soup (mix the following and slow cook for 30-45 minutes). Don’t add water.
Use a porcelain crock pot. Add herbs and spices. I use garlic, onions, turmeric, ginger and cumin seeds.
Fresh vegetables, at least 6 varieties, preferably organic. If not organic, use an ozonizer to remove toxins. Ampalaya, arugula, asparagus, burdock, Baguio beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, corn, cucumber, green papaya, green peas, okra, potato, radish, sayote, squash, string beans, tomato, turnips, zucchini, etc.—no nuts, no seeds
Add steamed camote tops, kangkong, ching kang chai, bokchoy or watercress.
Add reishi, shitake and/or maitake mushrooms; fresh (clean and dried under the sun to get vitamin D) or powdered (without additives); white fungus or wood ear fungus
Top with green onions, garlic, turmeric.
Steamed brown rice, brown rice congee mixed with Quaker oats, topped with sliced fresh green onions, turmeric ginger and garlic
Add 1 tbsp ground flax seed or flax seed meat.
(Next Thursday: Part 2)
E-mail the author at raspiras@inquirer.com.ph
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