New study links br cancer risk to drinks

It might not do much good for ME to wonder why *I* got BC. However, I do hope scientists will continue to investigate.

Ask most people if they eat a lot of sugar. Most reply they do not. Denial. I believe diet is very important and life altering. Giving up sugar removed my migraines, joint aches, insomnia, sweats, anxiety, to name a few miserable health issues. I have none of that now. I cannot get over how well I sleep now allowing my body that time to “fix stuff”. Will it keep me from getting a cancer reoccurrence? I have no idea, but I sure am benefiting right this moment.

I never was a big organic and certainly not the “grass fed only” person, but I have come around after much research. I owned horses for many years. I ended up pulling grain from them many years ago. I raised our own hay. For horses grain is a digestive nightmare and most of all in the wild NO horse would be consuming grain. So that begs the question why are we feeding grain to cows? Again, not natural and now we know the unbalance between Omega 3 and 6 because of grain consumption.

Why I have gotten cancer twice is very important to me. I believe how we process daily stress is important, let alone serious episodes. I failed doing so. The first time I got cancer, my mom was dying. I moved from home to take care of her. Prior to that my dad was dying and I took care of him as well. This time around I was under constant stress from our family business, taking care of a farm by myself, and many animal losses. I just did way more than I ever should have committed to. Many things could have contributed to my cancer. My mother was 45 when I was born. She had been under years of enormous stress and sadness after my brother was killed, which nearly killed her as well. As we age, our cell mutations increase. We get all of our Mitochondria DNA from our mothers. I also was exposed to DDT growing up. A lot of it. Also later as an environmental activist I was exposed to a lot of toxic chemicals when doing river watch. Later I was daily exposed to rubber footing used in a riding indoor that made me very sick. It is not a pretty picture.

I am reading a great book now by Dr David Servan-Schreiber a cancer patient that is now deceased. While he did conventional treatment twice, he also believed in a holistic approach. However, he failed the stress test because he committed to a lifestyle he simply could not do without killing himself. Getting out the message propelled him to make a difference, but it came at a huge price. As we age, stress is even harder to manage. Anyway, get the book. Anti Cancer A New Way of Life. Full of interesting data.

1redgirl,

You make great points, many of which are great for general health--not just cancer. But having any cancer is a risk factor for getting another cancer. That is something to consider as well. I hate to understand this empirical fact, but it is something that we all live with, once we've been diagnosed with one cancer.

As I have said before in this forum, we all do what we need to do to feel comfortable moving forward. If what you are doing is working for you, then more power to you!