Whenever people hear the word cancer, they are likely to feel fear. A person who has never received a cancer diagnosis cannot even begin to fathom the emotional fallout of hearing that fateful phrase, “you have cancer.” Even forms of cancer that are highly treatable often bring about significant and immediate life changes for patients. The intent of this article is to help you go through those changes with less turbulence and more balance.

To keep cancer cells from spreading, cut sugar out of your diet. Cancer cells live on sugar, so removing sugar from your daily food intake has positive effects on starving cancer cells. This alone isn’t going to get rid of cancer, but it can increase the chance that the cancer will go into remission if other treatments are used.

Cancer affects not only the person afflicted, but his or her family as well. There are many …