For Cancer:
Earlier Are Waerland started to gain fame for a successful diet that consisted of sour milk and similar products, whole grains or only partly cooked, as well as fruits and veggies. There are still a lot of active Waerland groups in both Germany and Scandinavia. Bircher-Benner advocated a similar lacto-vegetarian raw-food diet. He invented the by now famous and greatly demonstrated muesli.
The macrobiotic diet is based on cooked brown rice and only a minimum of raw food, which is very different from all of the anti-cancer diets. It has a mild cleansing action and some cancer victims claim to have been cured with a strict macrobiotic diet.
