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  • Jennyi1
    Jennyi1 Member Posts: 81
    edited December 2009

    Good morning Ladies.

    Motheroffoursons-I agree with you with all my heart about FLA LADY. 

    Running with scissors-LOL, I love your new identity.

    Peacehealer-Welcome, as purple me stated, you will love it hereSmile.

    Hope everyone had a GREAT CHRISTMAS and here's to a healthy and wonderful NEW YEAR!Smile

    Jenny. 

  • Springtime
    Springtime Member Posts: 3,372
    edited December 2009

    RunsWithScissors, I can feel it !!! Yes! Better than:

    AcceptsStandardOfCareAndFeelsLikeShitAnyway.

    ((or any other number of things running through my head, the rest of which I will keep to myself!!!))

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited December 2009
    OMG  Spring..I thought I was going to pee my pants laughing ..."AcceptsStandardOfCareAndFeelsLikeShitAnyway" ...LOVE IT!!!!!Cool
  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 881
    edited December 2009

    Spring-You have a wonderful way with words! LOL

    Peacehealer, hope we can help you find your way. . .

    I hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday and did not fall of the wagon. It is not too early to start the New Year with a resolution to continue to pursue a healthy lifestlye. Now that all the hectic activity from the holidays is over, I can concentrate on the prevention convention. I hope to dedicate it to FlaLady and I sure hope all of you will come. My biggest hurdle is finding a venue. I have plenty of great speakers willing to come. It is going to be so much fun!

    Oh, I had to stop the NAC because I was detoxing so fast, my face was breaking out! Makes wonder just how much mercury I must have floating around. Egads! I have got to get these fillings out!

  • Yazmin
    Yazmin Member Posts: 218
    edited December 2009
    vivre: It is quite simply fantastic of you to be dedicating the convention to FlaLady. I have no words to say how beautiful this is.
  • Jennyi1
    Jennyi1 Member Posts: 81
    edited December 2009

    Hello Ladies,

    Vivre: I agree with Yazmin, that is absolutely fantastic. I bet FlaLady had a huge smile on her faceSmile.

    Spring: You are so hilarious. You always make my day.

    I hope everybody is having a great  Sunday. 

    Jenny. 

  • jduford
    jduford Member Posts: 23
    edited December 2009

    This is a great thread.. having read through it I am happy that others are thinking the same way I am and having some similar experiences with the medical field. I hope You all don't mind if I keep up on the things you are learning.



    I think one problem with some of our doctors is that they have never gone through anything like this. I literally can't function if I eat crap. It makes me wonder how my poor body managed before my diagnosis.



    Julie

  • CrunchyPoodleMama
    CrunchyPoodleMama Member Posts: 312
    edited December 2009

    Spring... I was reading this thread on the drive home from Louisiana, on my iPhone, as its battery was dying... I had just read your post as my iPhone went dead and I was DYING laughing... you are too funny!!

    Julie and Peacehealer, WELCOME!!! We have an amazing group of women on this forum. Please do stick around a while! 

    I really regret that I missed out on getting to know FlaLady... although the more of her old posts I read, the more I feel I AM getting to know her. What a wonderful thing, Vivre, to dedicate your conference to this special woman. 

    I hope all of you had a very merry Christmas and that 2010 is a year of hope, healing, and restored health for all!!!

  • peacehealer
    peacehealer Member Posts: 2
    edited December 2009

    Happy New Year!

    Look at what I just found:

    http://www.theshenclinic.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:story3&catid=4:stories&lang=en

    and

    http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/

    :-)

  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 506
    edited December 2009

    peacehealer, welcome to the thread. 

    vivre, I am so supportive of you dedicating the prevention convention to flalady.  I miss her so much.  I never could reckon how she could be stage iv, work full time, battle lympedema, post here every day AND wade through and comprehend the volumes of studies she consumed.   To dedicate the convention to her memory is recognition she earned and deserves.  

    I hope everyone had a great holiday.  I was moving and grooving on Christmas Eve.  I fixed a fantastic meal, despite gale force winds outside that kept knocking out the electricity.  I even got the house reasonably clean and somewhat decorated.  I've been crashing and burning ever since though.  On top of eating lots of cookies and meat with dinner every single day for a week, a part on my juicer broke and I'm without my daily doses of juice!   

    I was so starved of my greens that my favorite part of christmas was the dinner salad.  lol  I proceeded with my traditional holiday baking.  I make reallly good cookies.  And even though I've started using unrefined, organic sugar and flour, sugar is still sugar, and I can honestly say I didn't enjoy my own cookies like I usually do.  Now I need to go order a new part for my juicer.  

  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 881
    edited December 2009

    Hey Althea, it is okay if you ate a few cookies over Christmas. Fortunately, it only comes once a year! I too bake dozens and give them away, but I had to eat a few too. But I tried to be careful. I brought salad to the family dinner, and that was what I mostly ate, while everyone else ate all the other junk. Surprisingly, all my salad was eaten too, so I am having an effect on everyone. They are all very impressed with the new me, and I am making some slow converts. I am hoping to get lots of my family to attend the convention so that  I can help them learn more, so they do not have to deal with the crap we all have.

    Welcome, Julie. I will try to keep from mixing you up with Julia. I hope you will learn a lot from us and teach us a few things too. Did you read this whole thread? Wow, that must have taken a long time! Pretty soon we will be as long as War and Peace. Come to think of it, that may be a good title for us. We fought a war against our cnacer and now we have peacefully found a healthier way to live!

    And yes, I feel so happy to dedicate the convention to FlLady. Her indominable spirit kept me going. If any of you never read her posts, look up her name in the member list and see how much she helped everyone. She was constantly up against people who tried to get her shut up, but she would not back down. She fought for all of us, for the right to have  alternative threads and it was her constant research that encouraged me to do my own too, and to not feel afraid to make my own decisions. She was one heck of a LADY. My only regret was that I never knew who she really was, even though we pm'd quite a bit. It will be an honor to do this in her name, and I hope the idea of having prevention conventions will spread and that others will organize them in their area and dedicate them to those who guided them to natural health. We have to organize to spread the word that prevention is a lot easier than the elusive"cure".

  • Springtime
    Springtime Member Posts: 3,372
    edited December 2009

    All,

    This is about the powerful benefits of Turmeric and pepper in fighting breast cancer "stem cells"...

    http://www.anticancerways.com/post/Turmeric-and-black-pepper-fight-cancer-stem-cells?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Anticancerbook+(Anticancerbook.com)

    "A new study shows that a combination of turmeric and piperine can limit the growth of stem cells for breast cancer -- the cells that conventional treatment have the hardest time eliminating." 

  • jduford
    jduford Member Posts: 23
    edited December 2009

    Ok  I haven't read the whole thread, but I think I am going to back track even more to see if I can get somewhat caught up!  I am extremely impressed that you are doing a prevention conference?  If I may ask... what is the format?  This sounds like an amazing idea.  I would love to hear more about it as you go.

    I had my 3month check yesterday... just waiting for my blood tests to come back.  Never was worried before, but just the thought of it  makes me think what if.  Ahhh!  I also want to  read about  FlLady, she sounds like an amazing person. 

  • jduford
    jduford Member Posts: 23
    edited December 2009

    I need some advice on purchasing a juicer.  I'm sure one of you gals has some information that would help.  I don't need anything fancy but would like something that gets the job done.  I'm tired of using my blender and making green smoothies.  Any advice??

  • deni63
    deni63 Member Posts: 372
    edited December 2009

    Hi Jduford - welcome! There is a thread on juicing that has a lot of information and juicer recommendations. I just bumped it up so that it is near the top of the threads.

  • fairy49
    fairy49 Member Posts: 536
    edited December 2009

    Hi jduford, welcome!! great bunch of ladies on this thread!!

    Althea, I too ate a bit too much crap this holiday season, however I kept up with my running every day (almost!) and my greens, supplements etc, I am not going to beat myself up for enjoying the season, one has to live!! Laughing I really believe that the stress of worrying about everything is more dangerous than the everything! just my opinion!

    L

    ox

  • seaotter
    seaotter Member Posts: 642
    edited December 2009

    Fairy - Your go girl and I am right behind you Laughing

    Patty

  • Jennyi1
    Jennyi1 Member Posts: 81
    edited December 2009

    Hi Ladies,

    Welcome Julie, just as everybody stated, this a a great site with very knowledgeable ladies here. You are gonna love it.

    Hope everyone has a good evening. Good night and sleep well.

    Jenny. 

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited December 2009

    Hi, Julie ~  So glad you found us!  I seem to recall juicers being discussed on this thread a couple of months ago.  Maybe try searching (box @ top right) for Champion or Omega or Acme and it should bring up some earlier exchanges.  I have an Omega 1000, and it's perfectly adequate.  I just need to get motivated to use it more often.

    Isn't it amazing how just the smallest amount of holiday food can throw us out of whack?  I ate almost no "bad" stuff this year, but I swear I can still feel the difference.  And my DH (aka King of the Eggnog) was commenting today that he's gained weight, feels awful, and needs to get back to healthier eating!  Wow, coming from him, that's huge!

    DS finally had surgery yesterday for that kidney stone.  It was very large and hadn't passed on its own, in spite of an excellent naturopathic doctor who got it to move about as low as it could go.  I think if he could have waited another month it actually might have passed, but it had been in there so long, we were concerned about possible kidney damage and just couldn't risk letting it go any longer.

    Spring, I roared when I first read your funny comment to runswithscissors, and I'm still laughing about it tonight!    Deanna   

  • debnyc
    debnyc Member Posts: 15
    edited December 2009

    Hello Ladies,

    I finished radiation on Monday (yea!!!) and am cleared to take supplements. I've never really taken anything before, so I'm looking to start out slowly. Maybe start out with one or 2 and add on another every couple of weeks? I've read through some of this thread and there are so many supplements listed. It's a bit overwhelming for someone as green as me.

    Radiation definitely drained my energy and I'm looking to address this first. Dietwise, I've been eating seasonal organic since September. I've also cut out all dairy, sugar and red meat. To get through treatments, I added lots of caffeine. Probably not the best thing to do, but an extra grande black coffee was the only thing that got me throught the day. Is there a supplement that can give me that caffeine kick while I try to wean myself off the coffee?

    Also, when I saw my sister for Christmas, she freaked out about the dark circles under my eyes. Is there a specific vitamin, supplement, cream, or anything that can help with this?

    I'm looking forward to any advice you have to offer. Please help me if you can.

    Thanks,

    Deb

  • jduford
    jduford Member Posts: 23
    edited December 2009

    Thanks Deanna and Deni!

    I am going to read about juicers right now!  You saved me a lot of time wading through, now I can be more specific with my search!

    Julie

  • seaotter
    seaotter Member Posts: 642
    edited December 2009

    Hey Julie, I bought my Breville on e-bay at half the price of it in stores (I sound like a commercial, lol)

    Patty

  • rgiuff
    rgiuff Member Posts: 339
    edited December 2009

    Debnyc, one of my nurse coworkers swears by gluten free products for getting rid of dark circles under the eyes.  She's the only one I've ever heard talk about this, so not much here in the way of evidence, but maybe worth a try?

  • Lili46
    Lili46 Member Posts: 102
    edited December 2009

    Julie...I have an Omega 8005 juicer. I use it for juicing wheat grass every morning and green veggies in the afternoon. I've had it for a little over a year. It's a work horse. You can even make pasta with it if you want to.

    debnyc...My energy tends to dip in the afternoon. Pre-BC I would have coffee to pick me up. I gave up coffee about 2 years ago and instead of caffeine I now juice some kale with a few carrots, an apple and a small piece of ginger. It gives me the boost that caffeine used to and is so much better for me.

    Li 

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited December 2009

    Well, isn't this interesting!!! 

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34620322/ns/health-cancer/

  • deni63
    deni63 Member Posts: 372
    edited December 2009

    Good one Deanna! And by Gina Kolata yet!

  • fairy49
    fairy49 Member Posts: 536
    edited December 2009

    Great article Deanna! Thank you so much for posting!

    L

    ox

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited December 2009

    Oops, I didn't notice it was by Gina!   Actually, my sister, who is in radation oncology research (mostly childhood cancers) forwarded it to me, and it sounded so much in line with what those of us who hang out on this thread believe.

    I also want to ask if anyone has ever read any actual research re. microwaved food being either devoid of nutrition or downright unhealthy.  I know this was brought up just before Christmas, and I think Crunchy Julia referred to a science fair experiment where plants die when fed microwaved water.  But I'm wondering if anyone's read anything more conclusive re. microwaving food for human consumption.  I still use my microwave for cooking some veggies and some reheating.  I just don't use any plastic products in it and I don't stand in front of it any longer.  But these past couple of weeks I've eyed it with more suspicion, and now want to get to the bottom of knowing exactly how much of a concern it poses.     Deanna 

  • deni63
    deni63 Member Posts: 372
    edited December 2009

    Deanna - I have read that too, but don't remember exactly where. Could it have been mentioned in Anti-Cancer or Beating Cancer with Nutrition?

  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 881
    edited December 2009

    Interesting article Deanna. A couple of thoughts came to mind while reading it:

    I have never felt it was just a coincidence that my tumor was in the exact same spot where I had a badly infected milk duct when I was nursing.

    I have always wondered if people whose cancers spread, were caused by the smashing from mammos

    As for microwaving. I stopped microwaving everthing after a nurse friend sent me an article about now microwaves destroy the nutritive value of food. I use the stove to boil my water for tea too. I will see if I can dig up the information. she sent me.

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