Misfit Toy
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Gosh, I hate to say anything...I am not in favor that any diet can eradicate or cure any of us whether it be cancer, or ME or whatever....
I know many who have had cancer but ate great and did before the cancer. But, when my sister came down with cancer and then died, I automatically thought, if she just ate better and didn't smoke. She ate horribly. Her idea of a salad was with anything fattening, a ton of dressing. She made Sloppy Joe's for dinner and just junk. A lot of the problem was that her husband hated veggies or they had to have cheese poured all over them.
My point, I sometimes wonder how much her diet and heavy smoking and obesity played into her cancer. I often think, if she had taken care of herself better, things would not have turned out the way they did.
She also never talked about her feelings. Everything with her was pride and dealing with all of her problems alone. I never met anyone so closed off to what was going on with them. I am the opposite. An open book.
I often think all of those factors lead to her death at age 48. The cancer was everywhere. But, who knows.
I know that for years I was on a super strict diet. From 97 until 2004 and it never made me well. Never even close. Tons of vitamins, etc. I was able to take more than, too. This illness just kept coming on like a freight train no matter what I did. I would get so mad. I used to be on probiotics heavily...they never did SQUAT. From VSL3 to Garden of Life to so many probiotics. ZIP.
I am on them now but only because I have the surgery coming on, but for me, I seriously don't even believe in probiotics. The woman at the vitamin shoppe always says...."well, they don't help you to be regular, they just restore good bacteria." But, my thought is....shouldn't I feel better? And that's when I was really low in sugar. There was a time when I didn't eat sugar. It did help with my endometriosis and IC, but never with the CFS truly.
Ugh...still a major puzzle.
I know many who have had cancer but ate great and did before the cancer. But, when my sister came down with cancer and then died, I automatically thought, if she just ate better and didn't smoke. She ate horribly. Her idea of a salad was with anything fattening, a ton of dressing. She made Sloppy Joe's for dinner and just junk. A lot of the problem was that her husband hated veggies or they had to have cheese poured all over them.
My point, I sometimes wonder how much her diet and heavy smoking and obesity played into her cancer. I often think, if she had taken care of herself better, things would not have turned out the way they did.
She also never talked about her feelings. Everything with her was pride and dealing with all of her problems alone. I never met anyone so closed off to what was going on with them. I am the opposite. An open book.
I often think all of those factors lead to her death at age 48. The cancer was everywhere. But, who knows.
I know that for years I was on a super strict diet. From 97 until 2004 and it never made me well. Never even close. Tons of vitamins, etc. I was able to take more than, too. This illness just kept coming on like a freight train no matter what I did. I would get so mad. I used to be on probiotics heavily...they never did SQUAT. From VSL3 to Garden of Life to so many probiotics. ZIP.
I am on them now but only because I have the surgery coming on, but for me, I seriously don't even believe in probiotics. The woman at the vitamin shoppe always says...."well, they don't help you to be regular, they just restore good bacteria." But, my thought is....shouldn't I feel better? And that's when I was really low in sugar. There was a time when I didn't eat sugar. It did help with my endometriosis and IC, but never with the CFS truly.
Ugh...still a major puzzle.