Also we don't really know each other (though we feel we do), so don't really know when posts might have hit a raw nerve either as a reason for writing them or when we read them.
So Hugs all round, and lets smile again.
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)
Carissa wrote:
In the UK that kind of mag is "whatever somebody left" - you won't find many useful health tips in "Hello!". I've tried to up the quality by leaving "New Scientist".
That last bit is certainly true, but it's a long way from there to saying that soyamilk will cure cancer better than chemo. Slipping some true stuff in always makes a hoax more convincing.
There's a useful service in the UK that few people know about. Your local health board will have a Health Promotion Library somewhere. Anybody can go in there and ask for a xerox of any article in any journal they have, and they have all the standard medical and paramedical journals. The xerox cost 50p per item when I used this last. If I was having something like a hip replacement done (sorry, hips are on my mind at the moment for not very pleasant reasons) I'd go there and look for a current review of the kinds of hardware they might want to fit me with. I wouldn't know what the surgical profession's equivalent of "Which?" or "Consumer Reports" for prosthetics is, but the assistants would be there to help me find it.
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Thanks Carissa Well said. I was thinking similar thoughts myself. I'll share my chocolate with you :) Merry Christmas!
Marilyn in cold, snowy, Alberta, Canada
mmmm chocolate (in my best homer voice) it was snowy here two days ago but you wou,ld never guess with the sunny sky and 15c temps lol wow almost summer again.
Carissa wishing the snow would reappear in BC
I have seen articles with some evidence that a good diet (usually including lots of fruits and vegetables) can help *prevent* cancer; I've seen little or no reliable information that it can *cure* cancer (or be effective in treating it).
Julia in MN
Julia, I didn't read all the article because I thought it was just another troll post. So I don't know what it was all about. But when we lived in Wisconsin a several years ago, about once a month, a lady I worked with would bring in a vegetable soup that she had made. One of her relatives had been through cancer treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and this soup was part of the diet the relative was put on. She said this soup really made a difference in how the cancer treatment worked and the family could see the results in the this relative. I can't remember what all was in it but apparently the Mayo Clinic really promotes diet as part of their treatment of cancer. At least in the mid to late 90's they did. I have no personal experience so I can't verify it - I'm just going on what she had told me.
Hugs, Mika
That may be true. What I said (or at least what I meant)was that I doubted if diet itself could be an effective treatment for cancer. It seems reasonable that diet can affect the effectiveness of chemotherapy. After all, many medications do tell you to avoid certain foods while taking them -- and in some sense, all medications are chemotherapy, therapy with chemicals. I have been treated for cancer at Mayo -- lumpectomy and radiation -- and don't remember any specific dietary recommendations, other than eating a healthy, balanced diet. However, the dietary (and other) recommendations probably very specific depending on the individual's specific treatment. Some years ago, there was a weight loss diet (maybe more than one) being promoted around the country as the "Mayo Clinic diet". That diet was not from Mayo, at least not as something for everyone. When Mayo gives very specific diets, it is generally also patient-specific.
Some info on what mayoclinic.com calls complementary and alternative treatments for cancer.
Julia in MN (home of the Mayo Clinic, where I have received all my medical care for the last 20+ years)
Just thought I would add to this thread to let you know about a very good site for cancer info that you can trust:
Julia in MN
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