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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Role of Proper Nutrition when Dealing with Cancer

Jillian sent this post. It goes along well with my beliefs about proper nutrition; if we eat properly we can overcome many obstacles. If you are interested in reading more from Jillian head on over to Center Yourself.

In order to maintain strength and increase your chances of a successful recovery from cancer, it's helpful to integrate proper nutrition into your diet. While eating right isn't a cure within itself, it's extremely advantageous and can improve your overall quality of life. With that being said, let's discuss the role of proper nutrition when dealing with cancer and some of its primary benefits.

Increased strength and higher energy levels are two positive effects that many people experience with healthy nutritional habits. By consuming foods such as raw vegetables and others that are packed full of antioxidants, your body will be better equipped to deal with the stress that cancer places on your body. This is especially helpful if you're implementing chemotherapy or other forms of radiation. It can also help equip your body to maintain its strength. In fact, patients who are well nourished tend to respond better to therapy and often have an improved prognosis. As a result, you should experience more energy and it should make dealing with cancer more tolerable.

It's also important because your immune system can greatly benefit from a healthy diet. During the stages of cancer and treatment, your body is placed under large amounts of stress that can wreak havoc on your immune system. When this happens, it tends to make you more prone to negative side effects. However, eating a balanced diet and avoiding unhealthy foods can give your body the boost that it needs to combat cancer.

Along with this, you are likely to have a considerably quicker recovery time after treatment is over. By nourishing your body with essential nutrients, it tends to give you the edge while in recovery. Not only will your body respond better to treatment, you should be at a lower risk of developing an infection as well. On the other hand, failing to eat a proper diet makes it more difficult for your body to begin the recovery process.  Consequently, you are more likely to experience negative symptoms like fatigue, nausea and decreased strength.

In addition, your general quality of live should improve when eating a healthy diet. Since many cancer patients experience adverse effects such as weight loss and depression, providing your body with adequate nutrition for mesothelioma or other types of cancer should be helpful. This is mainly because improved physical health tends to positively impact your mental health. When you can maintain a positive state of mind, it's only natural that your quality of live will improve and your chances of recovery are often increased.  For more information regarding developing a healthy diet while going through cancer please visit- The National Cancer Institute.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

ANGRY about our National Food System

As a parent I always tried to feed my children healthy foods and snacks. Now I find that I have been filling them full of toxic, pesticide laden, genetically modified, corn saturated, adulterated foods.

We are being used as guinea pigs by corporate America and the FDA to test  unknown food sources. Monsanto's Round Up ready crops and Genetically Engineered fish will soon be or are the norm on most tables in America. Our conventional food system is a travesty. Animal abuse in factory farms is commonplace. The living conditions are so unsanitary that the animals have to be injected with antibiotics just to keep them alive long enough to slaughter them.

CNN just pulled meat off the shelf in stores across America and found that 47% had Strep when tested and several of those were resistant to 3 kinds of antibiotics.

There is a movement to get GMO (genetically modified organisms) labeled in food. The corporations do not want to label GMO foods because they know it will reduce their sales. The FDA is protecting their right to keep GMO's unlabeled and go as far as telling others that they cannot label their food GMO-free.

Please post comments on how you feel about this. There are petitions going around now that are trying to get foods labeled so that you know what you are eating. Please sign is they come your way.