Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Bowel Cancer Linked To Eating Processed, Red Meat
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
I thought I was immune
And I was. That is until I bought the wife an iPad. Damn you birds!
Until just the other day, I had resolutely withstood the Angry Birds phenomena. I hadn't downloaded it and I hadn't even tried it out. I also hadn't yet learned that burning desire to know what tortuous assembly of blocks, planks and pigs awaited me on the next level until I began playing the other day when Google announced the game was coming to its Chrome browser.
If you too are subject to this same burning desire, but just don't have the requisite bird-flinging skills, here's how you can unlock all the levels on the Chrome version of Angry Birds.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Eat your medicine
The more processed a food is, the further away from it's natural state it becomes and the more nutrients are destroyed in the process. Why do you think things need to be "enriched"? It's because the manufacturing process has destroyed the vitamins, minerals and micro-nutrients that were originally in it!
We have to get back to eating foods as they come from the earth if we are going to save our lives. Look at the the state of health our people are in! Fast food is killing us and the treatment of all the ills it brings on is making corporations rich. All at the expense of our very life!
Anti-Cancer Effects of Green Vegetables
Nutrition scientists have shown over and over that people who eat more natural plant foods—vegetables, fruits, legumes—are less likely to be diagnosed with cancer. But are all vegetables equally protective? If we wanted to design an anti-cancer diet, we would want to know which foods have the most powerful anti-cancer effects. Then, we could eat plenty of these foods each day, flooding our bodies with the protective substances contained within them.
So, which foods have the most powerful anti-cancer effects? Cruciferous vegetables.
This family of vegetables includes green vegetables like kale, cabbage, collards, and broccoli, plus some others like cauliflower and turnips (see the full list at the bottom of this post). They are named for their flowers, having four equally spaced petals in the shape of a cross, from the Latin word ‘crucifer’ meaning ‘cross-bearer.’
All vegetables contain protective micronutrients and phytochemicals, but cruciferous vegetables have a unique chemical composition: they have sulfur-containing compounds which are responsible for their pungent or bitter flavors. When cell walls are broken by blending or chopping, a chemical reaction occurs that converts these sulfur-containing compounds to isothiocyanates (ITCs)—compounds with proven anti-cancer activities.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Yowza!
As small as it may seem to those of us who take these things for granted, Anne has been washing the dishes and doing a little driving! Her abdomen and hands have progressed sufficiently that she is able to stand for a few minutes in the kitchen. When she first did it, I wasn't happy and told her to stop. She said with tears in her eyes, "This is something I can do!" It's a small piece of her life that she's been able to regain and this is more therapeutic than laborious.
Also, she's been driving herself to doctor's appointments. This is the result of two things: 1) healing and 2) weaning off painkillers. She was determined to stop taking the medications that impaired her and she's done it. It took a long time, naturally, but she now takes no narcotics.
So, we went shopping the other day and at both stores Anne rode the electric cart. It was such a wonderful relief to her we were able to spend as much time as we needed browsing the isles and picking out the items we needed or wanted! Next, the challenges:
Her hands are still the primary thing holding her back from having a "normal" life. They will sometimes be freezing cold and she'll be sitting in the house with the heat at 73 wearing her knit gloves. Then a while later they'll be on fire with heat and "pins and needles". The shaking is visible any time she needs fine motor skills and the lack of strength is apparent when opening a bottle or jar.
Then there's her overall fatigue. I had begun to wonder if it wasn't all the medications she'd been taking, but since she's weaned herself from those and still struggles to stay "up" during the day I have to conclude that it may be left over from the chemo/radiation. To this end I've purchased a couple of bottles of Co-Q10 and Ubiquinol (an anti-oxidant version of Q10). Hopefully it will help with her energy levels and, as a side note, aid the healing of her nerve damaged hands. We can only hope.
By the way, she had gotten visits from the Home Health Care nurses a few times after the family had left. the first couple of time it was an RN, but then they started sending LPNs who could only take her vitals. They weren't allowed to "touch" her in any way when she needed help! In the end she told them not to bother coming back. I thought this might backfire on us, but it ended up that they released her from their care and we were able to order the necessary supplies (which the first nurses had been using up) and have the insurance pay for them. This wasn't an option while we were supposedly being supplied by the Home Health nurses!
And, the setbacks:
It seems that Anne has developed Lactose intolerance along with a sensitivity towards spicy hot foods. This came as a total shock to both of us, as you may very well imagine, because we love quesadia(sp), papusa, bean & cheese burrito, grilled cheese sandwiches, etc.. Anne, as you know, was the spicy food lover in our family and I the "gringo." But our roles are not only reversed now, they're Topsy-turvy!
Because of her anemia (which is back) I feed her beef and chicken whenever possible along with a stock of G2 we have in the pantry. We're handling the lactose thing with Lactaid Fast Act, which Justus recommended as being the best product for this. So far, it's done a good job and she continues to enjoy dairy (albeit, in smaller doses). Which brings me to the Thank yous:
Anne's co-workers at Lena Juniper have been bringing dinners on Tuesday and Thursday. It's such a relief to to know that upon arriving at home on those days there is at least one thing I don't have to worry about! We've had roasted chicken (which she made sandwiches from for a week), pasta shells w/ asparagus (which I ate nearly every day), shrimp creole (she had it every other day between the pasta) and gourmet pizza. Delicious!
It is wonderful to have the help and caring, not to mention the watering of Anne's "jungle". I'm so bad at it, that it's a wonder that we hadn't lost any by the time Lujean stepped up.
We are ever so grateful to all of you for your support. Bless you and may love shine upon you.
Please keep those prayers and healing thoughts coming for Anne,
Don and Anne
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