After receiving severe backlash from doctors about cancer diet, Navjot Singh Sidhu shared a detailed diet plan of his wife that she followed and beat cancer.
Navjot Singh Sidhu addressed a press conference in Amritsar on November 21 declaring his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu cancer free. He shared how his wife beat stage four cancer and emphasising the role of dietary and lifestyle changes in her recovery. Since then, the cricket commentator has received major backlash from the medical fraternity. But, after oncologists questioned his claim that a strict diet helped his wife defeat stage 4 cancer, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu Monday clarified that the diet plan was implemented in consultation with doctors and should be considered “facilitation in the treatment”.
In a video message posted on X on Monday, Sidhu said, “I want to say that a doctor is like God to me, and doctors have always been my priority. I have a doctor (Navjot Kaur Sidhu) at home. Whatever we have done was done with the consultation of doctors in a collaborative process.”
However, oncologists at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai warned that cancer patients should not delay or stop their treatment by following unproven remedies.
The former Punjab Congress chief also shared the diet plan and wrote, “My wife’s cancer journey involved surgeries, chemotherapy, hormonal and targeted therapy, positivity and determination to fight cancer which was facilitated by a strict diet plan inspired by Indian Ayurveda, the nobel prize winning research of Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries of the mechanisms autophagy and observation of eminent doctors worldwide.”
Diet Plan pic.twitter.com/BGmJfSMoo3
— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) November 25, 2024
The diet chart included lemon water, turmeric, apple cider vinegar, walnuts, juice made from beetroot, carrot, and amla, among other items. She also consumed neem leaves, but sugar, dairy products and wheat were removed from her diet, he said. Sidhu also mentioned that his wife was given water with a pH level of seven.
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s Cancer Related Diet Sparks Debate
On November 23, Dr C S Pramesh, Director of Tata Memorial Hospital, posted a video of Sidhu’s press conference on X and said, “Parts of the video imply that starving cancer by avoiding dairy products and sugar, and consuming haldi (turmeric) and neem, helped cure her ‘incurable’ cancer.”
A video of a former cricketer describing his wife’s treatment for her breast cancer has been circulating widely on social media. Parts of the video imply that “starving the cancer by not eating dairy products and sugar”, consuming haldi (turmeric) and neem helped cure her…
— Pramesh CS (@cspramesh) November 23, 2024
He added, “Please don’t believe or be fooled by these statements, regardless of who they come from. These are unscientific and baseless recommendations. It was surgery and chemotherapy, which are evidence-based treatments, that made her cancer-free, not haldi, neem, or other such remedies.”
After his first video, several doctors refuted claims on the diet. Several expressed concerned about myths around diet for cancer treatment. Cancer requires proper treatment and no scientific research have proved the role of diet alone to cure cancer.