Seaweed helps Kylie back to health

Kylie Minogue has turned to nutritionists for help in her battle against breast cancer.

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. I am glad to hear, though, that these smoothies are in addition to and not instead of whole food as it is possible to overdo liquefied foods as you lose some of the fibre that helps the body eliminate toxins.'

The fruits and vegetables that Miss Minogue is drinking all have individual 'cancer fighting' credentials.