Since my uncle died in January of cancer, I have been constantly researching the dreaded word. All the research has lead me to change my eating habits as well as my kid’s eating habits. April 1st kicked off Whole30. That month was an eye opener on the food I was consuming. Since then, I find myself trying to better my kid’s lives with whole foods and clean eating. We are about 85% clean/organic with the other 15% still letting us be “fat, greedy, entitled Westerners”. That was kind of a joke but not really. It’s true. Our food shouldn’t come from a box. The only good aisles in a grocery store are the perimeter ones – produce, meat, and some frozen (veggies and fruit). We don’t shop down the middle aisles unless it is for paper goods or cleaning supplies. Even our cleaning supplies are changing over to non-toxic ingredients. When it comes to what we put on our skin, I have switched to natural makeup and bath soaps. Even the shampoo and conditioner are very limited on their toxins. If you didn’t know- makeup, shampoos, and deodorants are awful for you. And just think- you are putting them on your skin which goes into your bloodstream.
Other than those, I don’t smoke. I quit drinking. I try to get my vitamin d via the sun. We exercise daily and limit the amount of time we watch tv. And the kids know it is important to breathe in as much fresh air as possible. I am trying to be calm with the kids and not let everything get to me. Lastly, be happy. It’s not very easy to be happy. Being happy means I have to reduce my stress load. I have a wonderful life. Sometimes it is just hard to see it with all the chaos around. I think we all need to adopt the motto a friend has – Be Positive. { B+ }
The Way We Live Influences The Way We Die!
So back to the C Word. Cancer. If up to 70% of cancers deaths are preventable – what are we waiting for?
Until recently, we thought that cancer was only due to a genetic predisposition, or to an unlucky draw. THE C WORD irrevocably establishes the connection between the current cancer epidemic and our western lifestyle from a scientific, documented and optimistic point of view. The latest research findings clearly show that up to 70% of cancer deaths are linked to our daily behaviors: smoking, a diet of processed foods, a sedentary lifestyle, excessive stress, and a continued exposure to daily contaminants. Catalytic in its revelations, THE C WORD is also an indictment of a trillion-dollar processed food industry that thrives while we get sick and relies on an economic model that chooses profit over people, leaving us undernourished and overweight, especially in our underserved communities.
