An extreme diet involving fasting before a patient starts chemotherapy could improve the outcome for breast cancer patients, a new study shows. Stage two and three breast cancer patients on a 'fasting mimicking' diet - that is a low-calorie, low-protein diet - had a better response to the chemotherapy treatment. An extreme diet involving fasting before a patient starts chemotherapy could improve the outcome for breast cancer patients, a new study shows. However, the group on the fasting mimicking diet had a better overall response to the chemotherapy than those on a regular diet. The fasting mimicking diet was a plant-based, low amino-acid substitution diet, consisting of soups, broths, liquids and tea.

Source: Daily Mail June 23, 2020 15:02 UTC