Hi Team,

 

Was reading Amit's post to moonsonatadream.

 

A little word on "eating healthy".

 

In looking to change my lifestyle in terms of eating good food, I new my diet wasn't very good but had no idea just how bad it was.

 

Body pH and "acidosis" etc was all news to me once I started researching what i had done wrong, which led me on to deeper nutrition research on food.

 

In New Zealand, we suffer from a high lack of Selenium, a key cancer fighter, in our food, and I was horrified to learn from a national nutritional/medical researcher of some renown, that nutrition in the food in NZ is a joke.

 

Our soils are highly nutrient deficient, which is mimicked into the "good veges" as part of the food chain.

 

Superphosphates in use in the 80's for rapid crop growth caused a massive growth in cancers, with the balance between phosphates and another mineral I fleetingly can't recall, dominated by the phosphates and causing cancer in mice and sheep in farms here and in Australia.

 

(hence the CAA product I blogged a while back.)

 

They eliminated the superphosphates and addressed the mineral balance in the soil and this problem all but disappeared (at least on that one farm).

 

So even if I had been eating "alkaline foods" as a major part of my diet, I still wouldn't have been getting the required vitamin and key mineral intake needed to stay healthy.

 

Moonsonatadream seemed mistified that her partner got this when he didn't smoke, drink, exercised etc, but the truth seems to be that nutritionists the world over are blowing loud horns about the poor quality of food.......and no-one is listening.

 

So, even if you think you are eating healthy, the food presented to you on the supermarket shelf may be far from providing you with what you need, simply because of where it's grown.

 

One pundit said if you expected to get everything nutritionally you need from the supermarket, you better take a dump truck and be prepared to eat that amount every week.

 

3.5bn people on the planet when I was a kid, over 6bn now. Demand, demand, demand.

 

Visit the vege section ?.............great !!............but if they haven't been grown in rich nutrient soil, it only looks good.

 

DO NOT imagine for a second that a fully alkaline diet (fruit and veges) and what is on your shelves will help do the trick............nutrition, nutrition, nutrition, and supplement to hell and back as you can.  Wih the average supplement at $15 a bottle, this gets expensive fast, which is why at $30/a bottle INCLUDING courier, the CAA product looks like a steal.  Mine arrived within 2 days of order and I take just one a day. Cost effective and supposedly with the right balance of vitamins and minerals. All the work is done for you.

 

And in New Zealand now, with a cancer rate of 1 in 3, the same as in the US (they are talking upgrading that to 1 in 2 shortly in the US) we have grown up over the last 2 generations blissfully unaware of what processed foods are doing to us; processed because they have to meet a rapidly increasing demand.

 

Take a look over your shopping list...........sugar is partytime for a cancer tumour. I had a leading brand of orange juice for lunch today (thinking "this is the high quality stuff) and forgot to check the contents label.  31 grams of sugar. Try finding proceesed food without sugar added to make it taste better to encourage you to buy more.

 

Too much sugar suppresses the immune system.

 

You have to buy and eat smart.

 

Have a guess how much sugar is in Coca Cola and other carbonated drinks.

 

Have they released Coke Zero (zero sugar) in your area yet...........if not it's coming..........and why?.........my sources in the nutrition field tell me lawsuits are pending and being prepared as we speak against the softdrink manufacturers because they knew the health effects of the amount of sugar they were putting in their drinks, just as the cigarette manufacturers new what the effects of the tar were in their product.

 

Watch that space.

 

The marketing phrase for Coke Zero here is "as it should be". I'd like to modify that to "as it should have been when you first manufactured it".

 

Read the food chart on Coke Zero...........no sugar,no nutrients, "0" on most points............what does it do then ? I t sells and makes them profit.

 

Tastes nice tho eh ?

 

It takes a horrific multiple of water intake to nutralise the acid effects of Coke.........1x 1.5ltr of Coke and you need about 18 similar bottles of water to counter it.

 

I have started on 6-8 glasses of water a day (when I can remember) ,instead of Coke or other carbonated drinks, and I can't believe the difference.

 

I had no idea and wasn't aware my body was screaming for water to get rid of the junk in my system.

 

And, we all wander through the supermarkets buying what we think is good food.

 

I'm sure many of you have read of the people of the remote Hunza Valley who eat 40 apricots a day, grown in nutrient rich soil, and drink glacial water rich in nutrients. They also eat the kernel of the apricot, rich in B17 (the famed Laetrile in the USA).

 

Their cancer rate is 1 in 1,000. Somewhat different to us eh ?

 

Regretfully they now have a road pushed through to give them "aid" (those poor primitive people that they are) , and are now getting their first "western" food options, and their cancer rates are climbing.

 

Here, it is just dawning on people that you either have cancer, know someone who has cancer, or know someone who knows someone who has cancer.

 

Maximum of twice removed, and closing.

 

The answer on the food issue ?............I would suggest supplementation and organic foods to try and help rebuild your immune system, and that takes time...........and wouldn't you know it, once you have cancer and your life looks to collapse, you find the food you should be eating is now 3 times more expensive than what you usually bought.

 

CAA seems to be the cheapest and most balanced, one pill only , supplement I can find...........as to the organics, you have to find someone you can trust.

 

A chicken farmer here was fined NZ$45,000 for distributing 45,000 dozen eggs (540,000 inividual eggs - too bad they didn't charge him a buck an egg) listed as coming from "freerange" chickens, when in fact they were from battery hens.

 

One of his workers reported him to the health and agriculture department.

 

Who do you trust ?

 

With industrialisation, food processing and refrigeration, our eating habits have changed radically within the last 200 years, and we are suffering because of it.

 

Ever hear of a "paliolithic diet".  The cavemen didn't slice off a nice steak of bison, mix some veges and steam them on the nearest "hot stone" which the women built a fire under.

 

They killed a bison/buffalo..........that was their meal until they ate it all (no refigeration), they found an orchard, they ate fruit until they were full.

 

One type of food at a time, so the stomach acid produced had only one type of food to contend with.

 

This is why western "digestion" produces such a hard time for our bodies.

 

Are we taught this at school.?.............no.

 

Most of us consider food from 4 perspectives, and usually in this order:

 

1) What it looks like (looks good)

 

2) What it smells like (smells good)

 

3) What it tastes like (we test it if it's new to us)

 

4) what it's made of (nutrition last)

 

Few of us consider what it's doing to us between going down the throat and into the toilet.

 

Amit is correct...........when everything collapses the mountain looks too high, but with time everything changes.

 

It is a terrifying thing to have your life, all the work you've done, all your dreams for the future to be placed under direct threat, all under sentence of being erased totally.

 

Deciding to fight it will be the hardest decision you ever have to make, and sometimes against friends who  say.........make the best of the time you have left.

 

Pardon my french but "screw that".(and that's the polite version)

 

You may win, you may lose (me included)...........but I rail against the machine that gives you a death sentence with no hope of recovery.

 

Remember this........they have too often been wrong before........and may be with you.

 

Sadly, they are many times right, and that is the terrifying thing............but, as Amit says, we can't change the situation we are in.  Accept that and engage the battle.

 

When I confided my fears to a friend the other day, he said to me.......life is precious, and the honorable thing to do is fight for your most precious gift..........if you win, you will feel reborn, if you lose, you have not given up a valueable gift without a fight...........and that is the honorable thing to do.

 

I am not a person of great faith, I don't know about God or the afterlife, but with this disease and the possible outcome, and the shorter timeframe before that outcome is likely to pass, it focuses your thoughts on what may come next.

 

If there is a God, Allah, Spirit of the Forest, Goddess of the Sky, Mother Earth..........whatever your faith or spirituality has you believe, would you face them saying you just gave up, or that you fought for it ?

 

Every day you are above ground and taking a breath is a victory.

 

I would love to push a button for you moon, and regress the clock to the time before your husband has this, as i would for myself.........but we can't.

 

I would say turn your despair to energy, get into the fight and fight hard.

 

I know you feel smashed to bits and lacking in the energy to even look at attempting this...........but we all have hidden reserves.

 

I've been running around this planet for 42 years, and seen some stuff that just doesn't make sense...........the one thing I know is that we know nothing, and that includes the doctors.

 

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

 

Lastly, there is a very strong link between the mind and body......it will know if you give up...............so, keep going, no matter what.

 

If you feel like faltering, have a contract with your close friends to pick you up and make you go on.

 

Rest while they support you, and walk on your own when you've recovered.

 

I hope these words help.

 

Stantonibc.