do you really think diet can change our faith

Rabbit_fan,

You're not going to find many people here who will judge any course of treatment thoughtfully and consciously taken on.  And no one here has said to hell with "the rules."  What is being said is that you have to be very, very careful about what you say based on statistics.  You can decrease your risk of something by 50% and that sounds dramatic.  But what if you're lowering your risk from 0.5% to 0.25%?  Yeah, that's 50%.

And there is a real danger that disease becomes "blame the victim."  If we had done something to "prevent it" it wouldn't have happened, so we have ourselves to blame.  Who-do-we-blame is a game of politics, and many of us are tired of being caught in the political fray -- we just want a friggin' CURE.  The last time we "cured" a disease, it was polio and that was over 50 years ago.

Do what you can to try and make each day a little better, that's all.  Be patient and kind and loving of yourself the way you would be to your best friend.  Because if your best friend wanted to make "healthy" changes in lifestyle, you'd be really, really supportive, but you would never berate her setbacks.  Just try to do better tomorrow.

Peace,

Beth

Dana Reeve, widow of Christoher Reeve, died of lung cancer.  Of her diagnosis she said the most difficult thing about it was that there was, in fact, a lot of difficulty in getting research funding because all lung cancers are perceived as smoking-related.  There are a lot that are not.

I am glad you have never heard any "personal responsibility" references to breast cancer.  There are actually people in this world who believe that cancers are caused by sin!  You really are fortunate not to have encountered such people.

I wish you extreme good health and a generous amount of happiness.

Peace,

Beth

Its frustrating to hear about so many women who, like my wife, took good care of themselves and still got breast cancer.  I have a theory that the slice of the patient population we see on this board is not fully representative of the overall picture.  Women who come on this board are likely more type A, proactive, information seeking and take charge of their health.  That's why they sought out this board and participate in the discussions.  Accordingly, it gives a biased view of who gets BC.  What do you think?  Are the men and women of BC.org a fair slice of the population, or more tending towards self care?

Thank you fellow rabbit lover- the pdf link that you included was so informative. I am really working on perfecting my diet and that was just the information that I needed

Hi Daisy - if you're talking about the one where 5+ daily servings of fruit and vegetables plus walking 30 minutes 6 days/week reduced mortality by nearly 50%, it looks like that was published in 2007.  The thing that's nice about the pdf is that all of the conclusions are footnoted in the back, so if you want you can find each individual study. 

I have seen other posts where they talk about the WINS study but I don't know much about that.  I've seen it mentioned on the triple negative forum, and I thought people did say that a low fat diet was supposed to be beneficial to tri negs.  I found a link to an article on that:  http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/WINSBreastStudy 

I went to the Block Center in Evanston, IL, and they advocate a very low fat diet.  The pdf has conclusions from hundreds of studies, and some of them are a bit contradictory.  Maybe your dietitian would give you a copy of the study she has?  

I think the consensus on broccoli is that it's great for you - Dr. Servan-Schreiber in his book Anticancer... says it's important to have it raw or very lightly cooked.  I've been making juice with lots of veggies including cruciferous vegetables - it turns out pretty good.

livelife - you're welcome!  Always happy to help a fellow rabbit lover!

About the blood testing - I recently had extensive blood testing for nutritional markers done at the Block Center.  It's pretty interesting - I was OK in some areas like lycopene, but low in others like carotenes, so I know I need to eat more orange and yellow fruit and vegetables.  They also test your ratios of good and bad fats, immune cells, and a lot more, and then recommend diet and supplements based on your results.

And I think you're right, Timothy, that a lot of the people on this site come here seeking information.  I think maybe for some people that's how they deal with it - you feel like you're doing something, and that makes you feel better.  Other people would rather just try to ignore it as much as possible and that's how they cope.