International pop star turns to nutrition as breast cancer treatment

• She has been boosting her immune system with smoothies made from chillies, garlic, raspberries and seaweed.
• The 37-year-old singer is combining the natural approach with chemotherapy in the hope of beating the disease.
• The nutritional benefits of the drinks are said to also help the body recover from the toxic effects of cancer treatment.
• 'Kylie has a whole range of different drinks made with combinations of fruits, vegetables and spices - all of which have their own advantageous health properties,' a friend told the Daily Mail.
• 'She was advised by specialist nutritionists that it could help and she is fighting this every way she can.
• 'She puts different combinations of carrots, chilli peppers, broccoli, garlic, kale, papaya, raspberries, rosemary, seaweed, tomatoes and turmeric in a blender and she is drinking a couple a day as a supplement to meals.
• 'Some of them taste very bizarre but she's not one to let something like that stand in the way if it might help her get better quicker.'
• Nutritionist Roz Kadir, based in Kingston upon Thames, South-West London, said fruit and vegetables could help cancer patients.
• 'The fruits and vegetables that Kylie is drinking are all either foods that contain antioxidant properties or are shown to help detoxification.
• 'Kylie is having chemotherapy and it is a very toxic treatment so she will have been advised to eat foods that will help her body repair itself.
• Broccoli and carrots both have anti-cancer properties, while chillies contain a chemical that can neutralise certain cancercausing substances.
• Papaya is full of vitamin C that works as an antioxidant while seaweed contains important fatty acids.
• Miss Minogue, who has been supported through her ordeal by boyfriend Olivier Martinez, aims to complement the chemotherapy she is having at the Gustave-Roussy Institute in Paris.