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dance/lago - I just had this conversation with my son who is a Sports Medicine major. He took a nutrition class and wrote a paper on organic foods. During his research he found that because of the cost of truly organic farming for commercial purposes many smaller farmers can't sustain the costs of doing business. Savvy larger agricultural businesses have realized that the public will pay more for organic so they purchase these smaller farms that are adjacent to their larger non-organic farms, keeping the organic name/label. They spray the snot out of the non-organic stuff, and the overspray and water runoff goes onto the organic stuff. Because there is so little governmental control over what can be called organic, not much really is! Personally, I go by the dirty dozen and clean fifteen rules, linked below, but I think if you want organic you are better off trying to buy locally sourced produce if you can. I have also noticed that Whole Foods carries organic from other countries - um, if we are doing a bad job of regulating what is organic, I'm not really trusting other countries to do it better. I do avoid GMOs and I don't eat dairy. 

http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/

lago - are you eating any salmon and/or fortified cereals? I just linked calcium rich foods for someone on another thread - I'm sure you have googled already, but there are a number of calcium rich non-dairy sources. Most people don't go dairy-free like I did, but I feel so much better without it, I'm not going back. I know you are stuck in a situation and need to do what you can.

lago - you def have to do what is right for you. I was allergic to milk as a baby and apparently that sensitivity followed me into adulthood. After I had eliminated dairy for several months I had surgery in March and ate a Greek yogurt daily for several days since I was on antibiotics. My skin broke out terribly, stopped the yogurt and skin cleared up. So, I supplement calcium and try to eat as much other food with calcium and I also drink almond and coconut milk.

It is so interesting what causes trouble! For me the bloating comes from dairy, no question. Salt does make me puffy, so I watch it. I thought I would miss peanut butter more, but I switched to almond butter and I love it. I don't miss sugar either and eat almost nothing processed, and I'm enjoying more food in its natural state.

Just saw where Joan Lunden has been diagnosed with BC.  She did not say her2 positive but she did say it was the aggressive kind,therefore I assume it means her2 positive.  She said she is having surgery,chemo and radiation.. BC must somehow be related to our environment.. So many new cases lately..

SusanHG123, if i didnt already have a pretty decent man, i would come and be your wife! just to partake of your hilarity! I am however, capable of being a long distant pirate! i am currently being a minion for a woman i found on craigslist, who was advertising for minions! She is pretty funny, too.(she is sending me a t-shirt, we have corresponded). I am awaiting assignment, but here i am telling people all about it! I agree with ashla, i love your posts, and they are better than any womans' book i have read, with their experience of breast cancer.(i've read great ones,just not as funny) i would buy it, and give it 5 stars. seriously, please start!! looking for you on jimmy kimmel one day..

before i was diagnosed, i was reading about monsanto. now that is some scary stuff. they have actually sued small farmers, pretty much destroyed their lives and operations, because part of what they do, is to modify the corn etc. so that you have to buy fresh seed from them every year. thus insuring they get a steady paycheck! and small farmers whose fields abut the bigger farms where they ARE using the monsanto seeds, Are getting their crops infected by the bees, carried by the wind, etc... and somehow, the labeled gene is apparent on the small organic farmers' crop, and then monsanto sues them for "using" their seed corn without paying for it. plus monsanto is working on how to radiolable and code the genes of pigs and cows too. seriously. they are wanting to control the whole food supply. And other countries ARE refusing to use ANYthing from monsanto, whose name i will not even capitalize.(not that i do alot of that anyway.) scary stuff. monsanto is also responsible for some of the worst superfund sites...

Just had lunch with Fluff, who is absolutely delightful!  Fluff, I hope you got to shelter during the tornado warning and that you are safe and to the south!

Ang, it would be so great if we could all get together!  Something tells me we would all have a blast and never want to go home.

Okimie, that is a sky high LDH!  That's the Arimidex.  Did your MO talk to you about it?  You might be a candidate for another drug in the aromatse inhibitor family, or need to go on Tamox.

And everybody in Ohio (Western), Kentucky (Northern) and Indiana (I think all over), look up Green Bean Delivery.  I get locally grown produce (and some grown in other parts during the Winter) that is organic delivered to my door every 2 weeks.  It is priced ok.  I'm supporting local growers, can customize my produce bin to what I want, and can buy organic foods from local farms like cheese, salsa, butter, humus.  It's a great deal!

SpecialK that is interesting about the farms being bought up by big corporations and the run-off, etc.  I do stick to the dirty dozen, and thankfully in the summer I grow my own veggie garden - so great to know those veggies have absolutely no pesticides!  

The organic meats and eggs are what are so expensive for me.  Of course I don't eat organic when I go out, but I try to use organic for home cooking.  

gatorade,good, hold your nose! sorry that it was a see saw for you, lago had a good idea with the gatorade, it has necessary electrolytes, better than water for chemo.

Pbrain, that place sounds so great, i am going to go look and see. plus, no more shopping! or not as much. i am going to try and build myself a budget, but still eat well. a hat or a squirell or something, ate my 7 tomatoes on my vine outside my door the other day. Pi$$ed me off! i have been tending them lovingly, swoooosh,gone! fu(k#%$!!!   

i am looking for work, not sucessfully. no more construction or painting for me.

Pbrain, I really loved Fishers for all the same reasons.  I haven't found another area that I like as well.  We lived in Geist Overlook.  On our street alone, there were 30+ kids.  We would gather in front of our neighbors house so all the kids could play.  People that lived there knew not to drive down the street because of all the kids.

Ah Mommato3, you'll find somewhere just as great I'm sure.  Lafayette must be kind of fun as a college town.  I'm over by Geist too, and it is just so beautiful.  I don't do well with the Winters here though.  Being on the western edge of EST and waking up, getting ready and driving to work in the dark for 3/4 of the year just does me in.  But other than that, yeap, a really great place to live.  We keep making the top 10 in the US in a bunch of magazines and surveys.

Oh! Pbrain and fluff together - how great!! Love the new bike!

pbrain and fluff, glad you were able to get together. What fun. And fluff the bike looks great. Happy riding.

Fluff, love that bike pic - you are so cute! 

Glad y'all are safe from the tornados.  It is so scary when you are under a warning.  We go through that way too much here in Alabama.