healthy eating – Ninasusan
I have a girlfriend who has been battling cancer for several years…
Tracy has always been very open with details of her cancer, her procedures, how she is trying to prepare her body for those procedures and staying strong and living life. I’ve soaked in her details and thought that her writing about her life was probably as cathartic for her as it was for us, her friends, who thought about her struggle day and night. The one thing I always wondered is…when you have this CANCER growing in you and you know it is there…how do you not think about it all of the time…how do you just accept that it is there and continue to put one foot in front of the other and be viable?
I now have kidney cancer that I wake up with everyday and go to sleep with everynight. It is there!
What I think this has done for me has thickened my resolve and pissed me off….and I’ve never been one who just sits around and takes it when I’m pissed off! Let me add here that my kidney cancer is probably all contained in my kidney and the doctor is pretty sure that they will snip it out and the cancer will be gone. There is not Chemo or radiation that I”m aware of to treat kidney cancer. More than one person has said to me that if I’m going to get cancer…this is the one to get. It has also been suggested that having diverticulitis probably has saved my life – with the finding of the cancer early before it broke out of it’s lining. So far…I think I’m lucky!
What I’ve become militant about it is what is going in my mouth. I’ve eaten healthy for the last year – sans Thanksgiving, Christmas and vacation. There is a difference in wanting to eat healthy because I”m almost 60 and don’t want to die early and wanting to eat healthy because I’m almost 60, have cancer, and don’t want to die early. It’s all called perspective….
One of the things I’ve read about kidney cancer is there is really no known cause…but smoking cigarettes and being overweight may have a cause and effect. CHECK! Guilty of both…so I”m really not a victim unless I don’t change things…then I just have a death wish.
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Brussel Sprouts – both sides of the story
First the bad news: Brussell Sprouts could be bad for your health….from Wikipedia
Consuming Brussels sprouts in excess may not be suitable for heart patients taking anticoagulants since they contain vitamin K, a blood-clotting factor. In one such reported incident, doctors determined that the reason for a heart patient’s worsening condition was eating too many Brussels sprouts which countered the intended effects of blood-thinning therapy.
I’m just thankful that I’m not taking anticoagulants!
I’ve always eaten brussels sprouts; but, I was one of those kids sitting at the table with boiled brussel sprouts in front of me as my unsurmountable challenge of the day to eat it. Sprinkled with salt and pepper and vinegar, mom said I had to eat them along with all of the mom reasons why I had to eat them. So I did. Spring forward to the day she decided to fry them in the frying pan with butter and onions, then sprinkle with salt and pepper and she was right (did those words just come out of my mouth?) they were good. There’s something about the dark brown edges of the fried brussel sprout that changes the taste. As an adult, I morphed into serving brussel sprouts topped with cheddar cheese.
Now that I’m an adult-adult and a health conscious adult-adult, I’ve been eating more brussel sprouts and have added garbonzo beans to the mix – a healthy serving will keep me full from lunch until supper aka dinner for you who drink your hot tea with a pinky raised.
Watching a hershey’s chocolate spread on a cracker commercial during The Bold and Beautiful today had me shaking my head to the advertising of junk food that is going to kill us early. I never say never – but now that I’ve realized the importance of healthy eating, I rarely eat junk or processed food. Its a mind thing and a priorities change and a life change and once you adopt the concept, it is very easy to say NO.
I had a conversation with someone who was lamenting about how much organic meat and produce cost and I either said it to myself or said outloud (I can’t remember) but, seriously, have you added up the cost of the bags of chips, crackers, candy and processed food you buy…..
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