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With my recent surgery and the pathology finding cancer cells - I’ve decided to step-up my effort to live an even healthier lifestyle.  A book that I’m interested in finding at the library is “Anticancer: A New Way of Life“ by David Servan-Schreiber.  It has been reviewed as a personal, touching, instructive, and thought-provoking book.

Here is a short list of some do’s and don’ts (excerpted from a November 2008 ODE magazine article on David Servan-Schreiber & his book Anticancer.)

• Your Mental State:

1. Be positive.
2. Resolve stress and past traumas.
3. Accept yourself and your emotions, including the negative ones.
4. Practice meditation, yoga, tai-chi, or some other form of relaxation.

• Your Diet:

1. These vegetables have great cancer-fighting characteristics:  beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, garlic, kale, leeks and scallions.
2. Also good are onions, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, red wine, soy.
3. Increase your intake of omega-3’s, typically found in fish (herring, trout, sardines, mackerel, halibut) and flax seeds and oils.
4. Avoid sugar, white flour, vegetable oils, white rice and non-organic animal fat (meat, eggs, milk, cheese).
5. Filter your tap water.

• Your Activity:

1. Spend 20 to 30 minutes a day on a physical activity like tennis, swimming or walking.
2. Be out in the sun for 20 minutes every day.

• And …

1. Avoid being surrounded by people who smoke.
2. Use cosmetic products that don’t contain parabens or phthalates.
3. Use skin-care products without estrogen or placental by-products.
4. Use cleaning products without synthetic chemicals.
5. Don’t prepare food in a scratched Teflon pan.
6. Reduce the influence of cell phones by using a headset consistently.

Wow …

I thought I led a relatively healthy lifestyle -

(Looks like I’ve some work to do.)

I’m definitely heading to the library tomorrow -

(And hopefully I can find “Anticancer” the book!)

 Until next time,

dawn @ iowahippiechick

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