Marseydoats
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Sherree, you can dump a handful of almonds in the blender, and chop them, or just hit them with a hammer, and stir them in yogurt (I thought you said you ate a lot of yogurt)
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SouthernBreeze
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Yes, I love yogurt! I eat a small tub every day for my lunch. I can eat nuts if they are chopped really fine. Never thought of doing that and adding them to my yogurt! The only fruit I eat is what's in my yogurt every day. I like the peach, strawberry, strawberry banana mixed, and blueberry. I like mixed nuts, but pecans are my favorite.
eta....Yogurt reminds me that it was also on my list of things I bought at the grocery store. We buy 4 cases-8 cups each every 2 weeks, also. Cary eats a cup every day, too.
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nomifyle
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I'm not sure if raisins are a cancer preventative and I don't think DH was low on iron, but they can't hurt. Back in the day when I was really up on healthy and unhealthy foods there was something about regular raisins that was a process that was used that was not good. I'll look into it for you.
As far as not being able to chew nuts, then grind them up and add them to oatmeal, good oatmeal not the the instant stuff. I use to grind up (in an electric coffee grinder) flax seeds and put them meal in my oatmeal. Flax seeds are very healthy but the flax meal that you buy is deficient compared to freshly ground seeds.
If you are looking for nutrition from dairy foods, go with whole milk products, they skim type has the nutrition processed out. And besides that the fat from whole milk products are good for you.
Another thing to really look at are the cooking oils that you use. Any vegetable oils and that particularly includes canola oil are very unhealthy and could/may/do feed cancer. Along with sugar, cancer loves sugar.
White rice has no nutrition, but quinoa does. Quinoa just has a bit of a nuttier taste than refined white rice.
Dr. Andrew Weil has a book that has a lot of nutrient information
Amazon.com: Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health eBook : Weil, MD, Andrew: Books
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I need to dig this book out and see if he says anything about raisins.
And in addition to this book he has others that are good.
Another health related doctor is Dr. Mercola, he has many many good books.
nomifyle
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All yogurt is not created equal.
SouthernBreeze
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In doing all of this research on foods that help prevent cancer, I'm beginning to understand my DDIL's eating habits better. That's a good thing, right?
nomifyle
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Yes mam, that is a good thing. Seriously, we are what we eat. I need to do better myself.
SB
I lost a girlfriend to this CT scan lung x-ray ... everytime you turn .. stuff
She had COPD ..started taking...Large dose of D3....her breathing was improving...yes ...she was getting better....and was very happy...
her doctor rained on her parade...he.took her off D3 because of unknown long term effects...she was already old..... already.. nearly 70
every time she got a cold , sniffle he was ordering x-rays or ct scans..an unreal amount of radiation...I started researching CT scans...amount of radiation with each one is unreal......the information I found indicated that CT scans can cause cancer..by themselves..
..if you receive too much radiation you can develop cancer
..and she went ahead..with his scans..within a few years ..she developed and died of lung cancer..
By the time she passed he had her on 15 rx meds .. everyday..unreal side effects...a new problem every time she turned around..
I started researching things that kill cancer cells in the body..I found that Beta 1,3D Glucan.. helps the immune system to scour out cancer cells from the body and kill them..
You can get this from Ameriden....sold under the name of Beta Factor... They're in Fallbrook, CA
Beta glucan has been used in Japan to fight cancer
Something to research..
Also research the effects of CT scans.and the radiation dosage...
I had 3 relatives who smoked for at least 30 years or more who never got lung cancer..so that is not a given
Two lived well into their mid 80's one died of a stroke.
One of diabetes...and one died younger of heart failure..
Before you decide what to do research everything
I lost a girlfriend to this CT scan lung x-ray ... everytime you turn .. stuff
She had COPD ..started taking...Large dose of D3....her breathing was improving...yes ...she was getting better....and was very happy...
her doctor rained on her parade...he.took her off D3 because of unknown long term effects...she was already old..... already.. nearly 70
every time she got a cold , sniffle he was ordering x-rays or ct scans..an unreal amount of radiation...I started researching CT scans...amount of radiation with each one is unreal......the information I found indicated that CT scans can cause cancer..by themselves..
..if you receive too much radiation you can develop cancer
..and she went ahead..with his scans..within a few years ..she developed and died of lung cancer..
By the time she passed he had her on 15 rx meds .. everyday..unreal side effects...a new problem every time she turned around..
I started researching things that kill cancer cells in the body..I found that Beta 1,3D Glucan.. helps the immune system to scour out cancer cells from the body and kill them..
You can get this from Ameriden....sold under the name of Beta Factor... They're in Fallbrook, CA
Beta glucan has been used in Japan to fight cancer
Something to research..
Also research the effects of CT scans.and the radiation dosage...
I had 3 relatives who smoked for at least 30 years or more who never got lung cancer..so that is not a given
Two lived well into their mid 80's one died of a stroke.
One of diabetes...and one died younger of heart failure..
Before you decide what to do research everything
SouthernBreeze
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Yes. I already know the dangers of having CT scans. It worries me that Cary has to have one a year for the next 2 years to see if his kidney cancer has returned. He's already had 3 done in the past 2 1/2 yrs.
Sometimes, I believe doctors push all of these tests, because it's what they do. I have to wonder if some of these tests cause more problems than if doctors just leave well enough alone, within reason of course. That includes med's, also. I have been researching foods and supplements that prevent cancer, and I am going to incorporate more of these foods into my overall diet/eating habits, eating less of what's not good for me. High garlic intake prevents cancer and is also beginning to help bring my BP down a tiny bit. I hope it keeps working, because I really don't want to take the BP med he gave me.
On my menu tonight is baked bacon wrapped boneless skinless chicken breasts sprinkled with lots of garlic, rosemary and black pepper, sweet peas, boiled potatoes in butter for Cary, and steamed carrots and onions in butter sauce with cornbread (mostly for Cary). A nice glass of red wine, later.
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My Mom totally believed you are what you eat...she had a book..."you are what you eat". I still have it..
So did mine. The problem was, pretty much ALL the information she followed was wrong! No saturated fats, butter bad, margarine good. Coconut oil is POISON!
Coffee terrible, red meat bad, soy good..
All popular "healthy diet" rules in the 1970s.
Worse, she implicitly trusted doctors, and she and my dad (who were both extremely healthy) spent more of their time running for checkups, "routine" tests (bone scans, colonoscopies, full body skin checks, mammograms, Pap smears, PSA, and on and on) than they did enjoying life. It was ridiculous!
Dad died of Alzheimers, which of course wasn't able to be tested for, and Mom eventually got Parkinsons... all their doctor stuff couldn't have predicted either one!
I'd suggest that anyone who has a strong family history of cancer to discuss with their doctor getting a genetic test to see if you DID actually inherit the genes.
The Genetics of Cancer
This page answers questions like, is cancer genetic? Can cancer run in families? How do genetic changes cause cancer? Should I get genetic testing for cancer risk?
It's nothing I would do randomly,, but it would give you a better idea of you *actually* have a r8sk factor that might justify more intensive surveillance.
Hubby's biological family is interesting... they either live into their 90s, healthy and active (staying in their home, gardening, etc to the end), or they develop cancer and die in their 50s and 60s.
The difference? Those with cancer smoked and/or abused alcohol. No exceptions.
Hubby never did either. He enjoys a beer on a hot summer afternoon, and an occasional drink... every few weeks, maybe. He's just not at the elevated risk brief look at his family history might indicate.
I detest the "one size fits all" profit motivated medicine!
Summerthyme
SouthernBreeze
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Your parents sound just like mine! Every time you turned around, they were in the office for every test known to man, I think. Because of all the conflicting info they got from their list of different doctors, they didn't know how to think straight. Mom followed those 70's healthy diet rules, too, to the letter. They both almost had a "God complex" where their doctors were concerned.
Dad died of kidney failure, because he took such a high dose of Naproxen for many years, given to him by one of his doctors, of course, who should have known better. When Mom was 42, she developed a lump in her breast. She went to her Ob/Gyn to get it checked out. He did a biopsy, but it wasn't cancer. He told her that it would probably eventually turn into cancer, and recommended she have a double mastectomy. She did. Mom also has a whole list of autoimmune diseases of which no test, except for blood work, made the diagnosis. My sister died of melanoma that metastasized to her lungs and brain. She was a sun worshipper, even though, her doctors begged her to stop. She developed a tiny sore on her left calf of her leg. She went to the same doctor to keep having it lasered off. He didn't do what he should have done and cut it out from the beginning, when he knew it kept coming back. By the time he did that, the cancer had already spread.
I'm trying to eat healthier, but I already have enough health issues on my plate to have another doctor wanting to add more, based on my mom and sister.
I posted our menu for tonight to show that I'm eating healthy. I can do better, though.
Will be getting ready over the weekend for a snowstorm coming in on Monday. So when the cancer center called and said they needed to push back treatment to start on Thursday, I was OK with it. I hate that drive anyway - way too many idiots on the road - and in snow, it's worse. So I'll just stay home and work.
Also will be working on putting up carrots and onions this weekend. I don't want any to go to waste.
Also will be working on putting up carrots and onions this weekend. I don't want any to go to waste.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
Your menu for tonight sounds great, one thing is you should be having butter too. Its very healthy, well, at least some butters are. You are on the right track, just keep researching.
I often wonder if there might be some nefarious thing going on inside me, but no indications of it. My maternal grandmother had breast cancer back in the 40's, it was pretty much a death sentence back then. My mother was always afraid of it, she never got it, lived until 84, but had deminia. She ate badly in her later years. Too many baked flour products, all day long. Neither my mother nor myself took HRT. Many doctors have told me to just keep doing what I'm doing. I've resisted statins and several other drugs doctors wanted me to take.
DH having surgery and all the entails got me off my not eating after 4:00, so I'm trying to get back on track with that.
I often wonder if there might be some nefarious thing going on inside me, but no indications of it. My maternal grandmother had breast cancer back in the 40's, it was pretty much a death sentence back then. My mother was always afraid of it, she never got it, lived until 84, but had deminia. She ate badly in her later years. Too many baked flour products, all day long. Neither my mother nor myself took HRT. Many doctors have told me to just keep doing what I'm doing. I've resisted statins and several other drugs doctors wanted me to take.
DH having surgery and all the entails got me off my not eating after 4:00, so I'm trying to get back on track with that.
SouthernBreeze
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I do eat a good amount of butter. I cook with it, too. None of that fake butter stuff for us, even though, Cary's doctor doesn't think it's healthy, because of his high cholesterol. My steamed carrot and onions, tonight, were topped with a big dollop of real butter, once they were placed in a bowl. Sweet peas were cooked in a little butter, too. My cholesterol is always fine when checked.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
Doctors for the most part still have the mind set that good fat is not good for you. butter, olive oil and coconut oil, that's it. Except for lard that you render yourself, that's good for ya.
SouthernBreeze
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I use virgin olive oil, butter, coconut oil, bacon grease, and toasted sesame oil. I do deep fry French fries every now and then, and I use vegetable oil for that and that only.
Mom's book is "diet does it"...in was published in 1944 written by Gaylord HauserSo did mine. The problem was, pretty much ALL the information she followed was wrong! No saturated fats, butter bad, margarine good. Coconut oil is POISON!
Coffee terrible, red meat bad, soy good..
All popular "healthy diet" rules in the 1970s.
Worse, she implicitly trusted doctors, and she and my dad (who were both extremely healthy) spent more of their time running for checkups, "routine" tests (bone scans, colonoscopies, full body skin checks, mammograms, Pap smears, PSA, and on and on) than they did enjoying life. It was ridiculous!
Dad died of Alzheimers, which of course wasn't able to be tested for, and Mom eventually got Parkinsons... all their doctor stuff couldn't have predicted either one!
I'd suggest that anyone who has a strong family history of cancer to discuss with their doctor getting a genetic test to see if you DID actually inherit the genes.
The Genetics of Cancer
This page answers questions like, is cancer genetic? Can cancer run in families? How do genetic changes cause cancer? Should I get genetic testing for cancer risk?www.cancer.gov
It's nothing I would do randomly,, but it would give you a better idea of you *actually* have a r8sk factor that might justify more intensive surveillance.
Hubby's biological family is interesting... they either live into their 90s, healthy and active (staying in their home, gardening, etc to the end), or they develop cancer and die in their 50s and 60s.
The difference? Those with cancer smoked and/or abused alcohol. No exceptions.
Hubby never did either. He enjoys a beer on a hot summer afternoon, and an occasional drink... every few weeks, maybe. He's just not at the elevated risk brief look at his family history might indicate.
I detest the "one size fits all" profit motivated medicine!
Summerthyme
She didn't follow all the 1970s stuff.
She ate protein everyday...butter...veggies and had something raw fresh everyday..in the winter a sliced orange on lettuce salad..nothing to excess..eggs bacon a little bread..
She died from an accidental fall shortly before her 80th birthday....she was on no rx....I talked with medical examiner...who told nothing was wrong with her and she was 10 years younger than her age.
I still fix food much like she did..I will be 76 this month...neither dh or I are on any rx meds..he is still working full time as a mechanic at a tractor dealership ...be will be 70 his birthday...we do take more vitamins than she did but...I believe that foods today don't have the same nutrition that they did have..years ago...we don't smoke or drink...
I do a lot of scratch cooking..we grow a garden and can.... We eat rather simple meals most of the time...some type of meat...steamed fresh veggies or veggie and fruit not too many potatoes...not a lot of bread....we use butter, extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil...lots of homemade soups..seems to work
We avoid doctors as much as possible..
SouthernBreeze
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I do about 95% of my cooking from scratch, too. I do have some boxes of processed foods such as rice a roni, hamburger helper, scalloped potatoes to use from time to time when I'm not feeling well, or in a rush. I don't have a lot of that stored, though, not for long term. I wish we were able to grow more of what we eat. Next spring, we're going to try to do more. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the canning I've done, since buying my new canner, and hope to use it all winter, and with lots of our own garden veggies next year. We lost all of our fruit trees and blackberry, grape, and our muscadines look to be dying, too. I have to buy fruit. I've already started my grocery list, and fresh and canned fruit are already on it. I don't eat enough, hardly any, except what's in my yogurt.
I'm not stopping the way we already eat, just adding more foods that are best at fighting cancer and other issues. I'm still researching. Cary needs to be eating healthier, too, since he has already had cancer.
It's still raining, and it's supposed to get a bit stormy later on this afternoon into tonight. 60 for our high, today. Everything outside is so mushy, but we need the rain, because of the bad drought we've had. It's been raining for 8 days straight with small breaks in between.
I'm not stopping the way we already eat, just adding more foods that are best at fighting cancer and other issues. I'm still researching. Cary needs to be eating healthier, too, since he has already had cancer.
It's still raining, and it's supposed to get a bit stormy later on this afternoon into tonight. 60 for our high, today. Everything outside is so mushy, but we need the rain, because of the bad drought we've had. It's been raining for 8 days straight with small breaks in between.
John Deere Girl
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Today is a good day for baking, so I'm making cinnamon rolls, thumbprint cookies, and iced sugar cookies.
kyrsyan
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Today has been mostly great but exhausting. At the moment? About to crash energy wise.
Headed out this morning to run early morning errands. Got a call from a local venison processor that he had an abandoned order. Had to flip back home to grab my emergency cash. Then got back on track. Now have the spare deadbolt but Lowe's had no one on the floor that could rekey it. That will get handled another day.
Couldn't go to the thrift store I wanted to go to because they changed their hours. Maybe next weekend. Went to the SVDP Thrift instead. Found more than I needed to, but a lot of it was answers to prayers. A lot of lanterns that I can put lights in, so I can use them to light the path to the house when I want to. Long story there. I just need to get by the Dollar Tree in the spring and get some of their shepherd hooks. Or move two from the backyard.
Got son. Went to grocery. As we were checking out, he bolted. My nerves are still shot from that.
Picked up venison. A lot of it is cube steak. Headed straight home because I was beyond my limits.
Everything is in house. Cold stuff is put away. Two cube steaks are in the small crockpot, hopefully to finish in time for dinner. Son has done his version of an apology for being a "bad boy". But I'm just going to grab a big mug of chair and sort fabric. Because one of the SVDP finds was a bunch of scrap fabric bundles for $.50/bundle. Well a bunch of fabric period, but also scrap fabric bundles that are clothing fabric. So I'm going to see about a mix and match batch for another patchwork skirt.
And tomorrow I will work on Christmas gifts again. Oh, and new boss has decided that my attention to detail and speed means that she will be training me on payroll. And 100% keeping me on as employee vs 1099 so that she has more flexibility in using me. And my eyes have seen the word Apple so much in the past 24 hours that it started to look like some weird misspelled word.
And I'm partially feeling guilty about the abandoned order. Because it turned out that the person abandoned it because they lost their job. So I thanked those above for the blessing for us. And asked them to bless that person. But my son can't eat beef and venison is important here.
Anyone have good cube steak recipes? It's not something that I've cooked before. I punted today and tossed it in the crockpot because there were so many comments about it turning out tough.
Headed out this morning to run early morning errands. Got a call from a local venison processor that he had an abandoned order. Had to flip back home to grab my emergency cash. Then got back on track. Now have the spare deadbolt but Lowe's had no one on the floor that could rekey it. That will get handled another day.
Couldn't go to the thrift store I wanted to go to because they changed their hours. Maybe next weekend. Went to the SVDP Thrift instead. Found more than I needed to, but a lot of it was answers to prayers. A lot of lanterns that I can put lights in, so I can use them to light the path to the house when I want to. Long story there. I just need to get by the Dollar Tree in the spring and get some of their shepherd hooks. Or move two from the backyard.
Got son. Went to grocery. As we were checking out, he bolted. My nerves are still shot from that.
Picked up venison. A lot of it is cube steak. Headed straight home because I was beyond my limits.
Everything is in house. Cold stuff is put away. Two cube steaks are in the small crockpot, hopefully to finish in time for dinner. Son has done his version of an apology for being a "bad boy". But I'm just going to grab a big mug of chair and sort fabric. Because one of the SVDP finds was a bunch of scrap fabric bundles for $.50/bundle. Well a bunch of fabric period, but also scrap fabric bundles that are clothing fabric. So I'm going to see about a mix and match batch for another patchwork skirt.
And tomorrow I will work on Christmas gifts again. Oh, and new boss has decided that my attention to detail and speed means that she will be training me on payroll. And 100% keeping me on as employee vs 1099 so that she has more flexibility in using me. And my eyes have seen the word Apple so much in the past 24 hours that it started to look like some weird misspelled word.
And I'm partially feeling guilty about the abandoned order. Because it turned out that the person abandoned it because they lost their job. So I thanked those above for the blessing for us. And asked them to bless that person. But my son can't eat beef and venison is important here.
Anyone have good cube steak recipes? It's not something that I've cooked before. I punted today and tossed it in the crockpot because there were so many comments about it turning out tough.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I would think a cubed steak would have been tenderized. We need to look around for some abandoned orders, DH can't hunt right now because of his surgery and weight restrictions and he only got two small deer.
kyrsyan
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We are on the list for a local processor. I am grateful if even one order a year happens. Because many years it doesn't happen. I stretch that venison for as long as I can.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I stretch it too, we buy no beef, ever.
Several years ago I bought some stew meat at walmart (long before I moved to the woods) and prepared it my usual way. It tasted awful. the next time I went to walmart I carefully looked at a package like the one I had bought. It had all kinds of additives put in it, so I looked at more packages and they all had crap put into the meat. That is when I stopped buying beef at walmart. Unless you buy from an individual, you have no idea what has gone into the poor cows.
The short time we lived in Washington state we had to drive buy feed lots several times and the smell and conditions were horrible.
Even though it hurts my heart a little bit when DH kills a deer, I thank the animal for it sacfrific and than God for providing something reasonably pure and healthy. I say reasonably because the animal probably ate some of the corn that is put out for them and its GMO. Finding feed corn that is not GMO is difficult and when you do it expensive.
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kyrsyan
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Sorted through fabric. Should be plenty in the scraps to make a skirt. They're all in a bag to be washed. I don't often buy shiny poly fabric, so this will like be the only skirt I have like this. Except my old green Renn fest skirt that has a mix of materials.
Pink, all shades, is in a separate bag. Don't know what will happen to it but I don't use pink.
There were a couple stretch knits for my son. And a couple scarves for the two layered scarf skirts that I'm plotting.
And I found a batch of the old cooler things that you could fill and freeze. Some need a thorough scrubbing so it's not likely that I'll use them to freeze drinks in. But they can be some easy to use ice packs.
I got 2 SS insulated mugs. Ones that actually look like tea mugs, and hold 16 oz. The original plan was to use them to make something for friend. But now it's looking more like I'll use them. So that my chai won't get cold when I'm lost in work.
Some small canvas bags with the red medical cross on them. And "I regret nothing" under that. I think the two nephews who have moved out on their own will get mini med kits in them.
I'm going to crash so hard tonight.
Pink, all shades, is in a separate bag. Don't know what will happen to it but I don't use pink.
There were a couple stretch knits for my son. And a couple scarves for the two layered scarf skirts that I'm plotting.
And I found a batch of the old cooler things that you could fill and freeze. Some need a thorough scrubbing so it's not likely that I'll use them to freeze drinks in. But they can be some easy to use ice packs.
I got 2 SS insulated mugs. Ones that actually look like tea mugs, and hold 16 oz. The original plan was to use them to make something for friend. But now it's looking more like I'll use them. So that my chai won't get cold when I'm lost in work.
Some small canvas bags with the red medical cross on them. And "I regret nothing" under that. I think the two nephews who have moved out on their own will get mini med kits in them.
I'm going to crash so hard tonight.