The sun is our friend. Its energy, derived from high-powered nuclear reactions, is responsible for all life on earth. In a way, it could be said that the sun is our father. While it’s true that solar rays can be damaging to skin and can lead to wrinkles, laxity and even cancer, judicious exposure to solar rays can improve immunity, mood and of course vitamin D production.
Photonic energy from the sun can also be ingested, particularly in the form of dietary fatty acids. That’s the logic behind Dr. Joanna Budwig’s cancer fighting diet, which leverages the power of polyunsaturated fatty acids or PUFA’s, found in flaxseed oil, to address the disease, the second leading cause of death in the United States.
According to Dr. Budwig, the sun’s energy, in the form of particles called photons, are absorbed into electron-rich flaxseed PUFA’s, where they act to attract oxygen, cancers mortal enemy. Dr. Budwig further suggests that ingesting sulfur, in the form of the amino acid cysteine, and methionine, found abundantly in cottage cheese, to improve the movement of PUFA’s through the bloodstream.
While the anti-cancer effects of the Budwig diet remain controversial and unproven, enjoying Dr. Budwig’s flaxseed oil and cottage cheese blend, perhaps with some berries or nuts mixed in, makes for an easy, filling, tasty, inexpensive and very healthy snack or even meal. Budwig’s blend is quite reactive and unstable. So, for maximum nutritional value, enjoy within 20 minutes of preparing.
