Vitamin D and Breast Cancer Controversy

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Did you know that the main purpose of vitamin D is to maintain required calcium to keep our segments strong? or did you know vitamin D peuvent or can't, have a relationship to the breast?For women with and without breast cancer, the controversy of vitamin D is a énigme.Nous we need more information.

To begin, in a 2008 study reported by the American Cancer Institute, women with the lowest of vitamin D in their diagnosis of cancer of the breast, levels had almost double the risk of their disease progresses, compared to women with "adequate" level of vitamin d. fait that means women without breast cancer, who are interested in preventing a metastasis (should they ever get breast cancer), take vitamin D and if yes, how?

Secondly, the same study said the survival rate of women with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer, which is generally more aggressive, was not related to their vitamin D levels. Other scientists are quick to say that, although there are many published on vitamin D and its relationship with the breast cancer research, the findings are debatable.

While this study means for women who have or have not breast cancer? Many doctors ask patients if they take calcium and vitamin D, but none of your physicians have never ordered a blood test to check your level of vitamin D?What are "adequate" levels of vitamin D? Most doctors even know how much?

Here's what we know about vitamin D and breast cancer: If you take aromatase inhibitors, such as Arimidex, it is particularly important to get enough calcium and vitamin D .As stated in my oncologist, calcium works in tandem with vitamin D to prevent our OS "turn to mush."It is also important to bear in mind that too much vitamin D may be harmful, nausea, vomiting, constipation, weaknesses and causing heart rate changes.If you are over 50 years, the Mayo Clinic recommends you take IU of 400 to 600 per day, and in General, the upper limit of the vitamin D is of 2 000 IU per day.

Vitamin D in the form of pills, small amounts of vitamin D are naturally present in oily fish such as salmon, tuna and mackerel, as well as certain cereals, orange juice and milk products are enriched in vitamin D therefore .for, be a smart buyer.Check labels and if you can achieve for products with added vitamin d

We know also the Sun is a natural way that our bodies to make its own d vitamine.Si, however, you do one of gene BRCA, too Sun may increase your risk of melanoma and other cancers of the peau.Même if you are not positive BRCA, long-term exposure to UV radiation can cause skin cancer, more aging. I do not expose to the Sun, as a lazy big ole lizard and justify saying, "I get my vitamin d."If you are on a sunny or cloudy day, use a sunscreen and re-apply it often.

Then there is the debate on the beds against natural light where it all stop sun tanning. ?

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Friendships and cancer

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The breast cancer has made lots of friends in my life who now hold high places of honor.People who I thought were my friends fell from yesteryear, and I leave go. it is difficult to be abandoned by old friends, but do not take personally if it you arrive.beaucoup of people do not want to "too close" to cancer, because then they will be forced to consider that this can happen for the.

Before I have been diagnosed I was the picture of health: I've eaten whole grains, fruits and vegetables, lean meat, chicken and fish, no fried foods, some fast food have water aerobic six days a week; I was a perfect size 8, received annual visits and mammograms safe, remained out of the Sun, took vitamins and I've had alcohol in moderation. a friend told me that if I, who was straight, could get breast cancer it fear him thinking about his chances of getting breast cancer.However, it does not have its enough to get a mammogram or wish me as his friend scare: it has neither - because both have obliged to look more closely at the breast cancer. Instead of this, she chose to live in the land of denial.

Another friend, a publisher of a publication, I used to write, called and asked me how I was doing? "Sensational," I told. then as if it had launched me in the gut, she says, ", I wouldn't talk if I were you.". "It has a way to come back."Thank you very much, I thought.You sure have to support someone who is struggling for their vie.Quelques weeks later, she called to ask me to write something for the next issue, and I said non.quelles are my "no" really has well-meant, "no, I don't want anything to do with you ever." From this I said politely I had my hands full future predictable but thanks for thinking of me.

In fairness to the friends and knowledge, most people don't know what to say in front of a serious disease They don't know how to provide a comfort or are afraid to tell the bad chose.partir when I have been diagnosed, I wanted that people understand I was the same person I was before the breast, and I had even their friendship and to hear about their life. for when friends called and asked how I was, I would say, "I am grand.Comment are you?"."What have you been up to?"

I think that this response done two things: firstly, it relaxed the appellant since they expect, fearing perhaps hear my surgery, chemos, nausea, gory details etc., when they do not have them is not fear as to call me at new.Secondly, with regard to the conversation I was therapeutic for me if only for the duration of our conversation has helped this technique concentrate on someone other than me.I could do enough to think about me when I was seul.Et, are due to because they are flooding the with details, they gave me positive feedback.

"Seem you too happy"or"you sound you're doing great," they would say. their comments have helped me to create a positive, self-reinforcing thinking than myself: if everyone thought I was doing great, so I have to être.Et you know what? I was .j ' have been much better achieved cancer patient chest I knew which focused on themselves, concerned to each thing shortly, fear the worst and expressed to everyone they knew.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were right: "I get with a little help from my friends".

Breast cancer, are in denial?

The other day , I met a woman whose mother, sister and aunt had all been diagnosed with cancer of the breast.When I asked if she had taken the genetic test, would he say if she had inherited the gene that could make him a candidate for the breast cancer she says, "." I'll just to leave it to God... "More I eat healthy."Good afternoon!! It's a woman who has clearly not gene survival.

It is always shocking to me that it has no desire to know that if it is higher of a breast cancer risk, perhaps I should say the prevention of breast cancer or from the gene to his daughter.Knowledge is power small friends. Oh that I would have given having this knowledge before I was diagnosed with cancer of the breast.He had four years after my diagnosis of breast cancer when I discovered I made one of the breast cancer genes; I have no hesitation a thousandth of a second to say "take other chest now!"My decision to make a preventive mastectomy has been proactive in my fight against breast cancer, and it was empowering.This mastectomy was on my term, not the breast.

Even if it is not a history of breast cancer in your family (I_had_no_family_history_but_I_carried_the_BRAC2_gene) Please consider getting a BracAnalysis to see if you carry the BRCA1 and gene BRCA2.This is simple: a simple blood test.Most schemes health insurance pay for génétiques.Il tests can save your life or the life of someone you aimez.Ne're not one of those women who have the "hear without ill, see no evil, a lot of talk about" gene. of intelligent: stop breast cancer before it starts.For more information, go to Myriad laboratories genetic, http://www.myriad.com/

Breast dirty little secret of cancer

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Did you that almost 25 per cent of the Mari people leave their spouses after they have received a diagnosis of breast cancer?Statistics say that many of these marriages are in difficulty, initially, although when the roles are reversed, only three percent of women leave their makes me mari.Il me request what part of "in sickness and in health" men step mindful?

I know of a man who left his wife after his diagnosis.Not only does is that it abandons her, he left their son aged 10 years and 13-year-old daughter to become a granting of primary care. What kind of man made their mother ?What kind of message is that he sends his son? An other breast I know husband was that therefore any chemotherapy of his wife during it actually him take an aspirin and "snap to it.."

OK, for most men were raised is not be caregivers, or they want their wives, mothers to take care of them and the small friends.In addition, they may be afraid to acknowledge their mortality and yours, and they may be afraid of how breast cancer will affect their life sexuelle.Notez I said "their" sexual life.

More boys dream of becoming the hero: men who make people from burning buildings or record a buddy in a guerre.Pour area most of us heroes are ordinary people that escalation in times of crisis and do what is good for their family. under the breast cancer caregivers, men have to wade through the smoke and fire or dodge enemy bullets. However, it is an opportunity for them to become a hero; help not only to a stranger in need, but the person that they have promised before God to be responsible to death to make party - their wife.

Men... you would like to be a hero?Then perform is not about you. is about getting your wife and the family in this crisis with love, support and optimism .If they can count on you who can?Don't become one of these statistics that leaving wife them and think that they can find another woman and become his hero, because you can't pas.Il is vous.Et if it sounds as I am hard on some of... get you it.

I believe that most husbands are good to show and tell their special wives how they are; how much they are appreciated and adorés. Caring for her even if she has a breast cancer is a chance to show your love of ways to your family, and it will not ever forget.You are the intangible support strengthens its immune system, its hopes and allows him to one day to the other .in some cases, you can make the difference between life and death literal.

No one says that it will be easy, but you have given your family, and those around you a role model, they meet and take forever.Your strength, mountainous inheritance if you feel strong or not, will show them how to deal with other difficult times, they will certainly face. you will be a héros.Un Angel without wings.

How to survive the treatment of breast cancer to

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The best gift I have for Christmas was the secret recipe of a famous chef cakes of crab.Whenever I am in this part of the country that I visit his restaurant and order of crab cakes and if it is, try each turn in the book to get him to share his recette.Récemment, my friend Joan, who is regularly and which has much more influence than I succeeded to get it for me.

The "secret" recipe has written on a small card and wrapped in a towel flat with an ordinary crab cake recipe printed on the front hand.I was so excited you would have thought that she had given me the secret to the universe or the remedy against the cancer. Funny how something small like a recipe may feel like such a big deal.

Joan gift want me to give a gift to all of you is- the gift of survival: a recipe that helped me get through the treatment of cancer of the sein.Il consists of ingredients, even the best doctors sometimes fail to speak to their patients. label recipe for Brenda, this for "How to Survive Breast Cancer Treatment."

•An authentic heaping dose
• Combined with a second opinion if desired.
• Look in obtaining of genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2.Add the results to existing mix.
• Take written list of questions to the each médecin.écriture appointment or all recording responses, or take someone who will do it for you. seeking to keep until you understand .Adjust until that shape matters more.Repeat and repeat until the treatment is over... and beyond.
• Fulfil all the requirements of the same pharmacy.When you are ready to take medication, to write and time taken then those are due.
• E slightly after each anti-even if not necessary nausea meds chimiothérapie.prendre .
Flour • Remove white, rice, pasta, sugar, soft drinks and alcohol. replace with whole grains, fruits, veges, 1000 IU of vitamin D and drink plenty of water.
• Reduce fear and worry to manageable. finds a group of soutien.Allez often.
• Stop cutting cuticles, flossing of teeth, gently brush teeth and remain crowds in chemotherapy is over. Add laxatives for 3 or 4 days immediately after each chemotherapy .Add the drops ocular and moisturizing nécessaire.Si where the gums or skin break, disinfect immediately.
• Check souvent.Si on 100.5 temperature degrees, have respiratory problems, frequency or burning when urinating, bleeding or bruising, call your doctor.
Slather • generously with screen free solar paraben, then sit in the Sun every day for 15 minutes.
• Add generous helping of the sense of humor to the brain of chemotherapy. Top with no energy.
• Listen to your "small voice".
Season • liberally with meditation or hypnosis. add some generous exercise daily.
• In the meantime, are not major, decisions until the processing is performed.
• Give you enough time to recover and not overdo.
• Sprinkle with faith more and be grateful for the rest of your life.

Serve with love, courage, patience, determination and blessings of God everything.

We Are Not surviving cancer, cancer victims

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Recently someone referred to me as a breast cancer victim , how I've almost came unglued. In some measure our society and 24/7 personal and close media wants color anyone who already had a tragedy in their lives with the color of the victime.alors that I have had my share of tragedy I have never been victim and does not intend to start now, and if you read this, that I am virtually certain that you feel the same way.

I think victims, who are found murdered in corridors or stole their identity and by thugs looking for a quick money social security numbers, because. survivors are those of us who have heard the words "you have cancer" and continue to move forward.Persevere us even in the face of what may be dead certain of our cancer. we continue to survive, day after day .it ' is what we survive. faisons.NousWe can also be mothers, fathers, accountants and film stars, but we first of survivors.

When most of the world think of survivors of cancer, they think probably Lance Armstrong, no doubt, the surviving cancer, most of us wishing fate. when I think of cancer survivors, I think my friend Susan Pollack. We met when she volunteered to have Sandy Linter artist legendary makeup and cosmetics Lancôme give a modernization for some "self-image" on the BreastCancerSisterhood.com videos.

Since then, I learned Susan Pollack is an extraordinary woman who has a calm inner strength, unwavering determination, deep love of family and friends, an educator of compassion for the other survivors and sense humor that began as a modernisation for my site has inspired Sandy Linter désarmant. and its legion of fans, fabulous Diamond Kerry and cosmetics Lancôme, team along with women that I hear from that show Sandy and videos of modernisation of Susan on the BreastCancerSisterhood.com. Did I mention Sue Pollack has been diagnosed with cancer of the breast, 27 years ago and has been living with metastasis to the OS from more than 14 years?Fourteen!I am speechless! my opinion Sue Pollack is proof of the prayers of answers.

When it has been diagnosed first daughter is four years old and Sue prayed it would live to see him grow up or at least to grow a little more anciens.Prières Sue Pollack replied, and for 13 years, she was free of cancer. of her breast cancer is returned, instead of thinking of it as a death knell, Sue decided to continue to be there for his family and to itself.She modestly says, "I just chose to live a life."What it does say, is that she did without hair and eyebrows, but with lymphedema all the headache and pain and other outrages which accompany chemotherapy, or she volunteers to SHARE, resource a survivors in New York, who advises and supports cancer of the breast and ovarian cancer survivors.

For 14 years Sue Pollack has gotten continuously chemotherapy.As a chemotherapy became inefficient, his doctor gave her another one and other. for those of you who have never had chemotherapy, you cannot begin to imagine what that special woman has endured.Sue Pollack is a source of inspiration for partout.Elle breast cancer survivors is my inspiration.Elle is the model of face on and the role of each woman who has already had a cancer of the breast.She defied opportunities beyond the wildest expectations of quiconque.À well respects, it is like Lance Armstrong: stage IV cancer survivor many of us wants to become.

I am sure that Susan Pollack name is engraved in the book of God of remarkable survivors ranging from survivors of the Holocaust, battlefields with intrepid soldiers, or families who have endured suffering and the loss. call Susan Pollack courageous and brave, but please, do not call him a victim.

New website of breast cancer fills the gap travel processing, information survival and beyond

BreastCancerSisterhood.com discarded blankets topics, provides life-saving information

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Boerne, Texas (March 31, 2010)...Brenda Coffee, founder of BreastCancerSisterhood.com , knows too well this that patients, survivors and families of cancer need.A breast cancer survivor coffee also dealt a husband and father cancer-related deaths and recently founded BreastCancerSisterhood.com, a resource-based Internet for all things related to live with and the survivors of the given that most of the emphasis has been on healing, many patients suffering from breast cancer and families make their way through the risks and side effects of treatment sein.Étant cancer trials and errors. BreastCancerSisterhood.com offers practical information and rescue potentially even the best doctors and existing Web sites, often fail to mention.

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 250 000 new cases of breast cancer has been diagnosed in 2009.En in addition, there are more than 2.5 million existing breast cancer survivors, as well as husbands, caregivers, family and friends, still need to support.Cancer is a disease that affects all the family, and discovered coffee market intimate enormous need practical information on how to live with and this often survive destructive disease.

""There are many websites dedicated to breast cancer, but few offer the discussions and the solutions required by patients, caregivers and families; or resolve the problems they face,"said café.BreastCancerSisterhood.com lets stay intact families, patients newly diagnosed gives practical and surviving information helps reduce their risk of recurrence.".

No object out of range, BreastCancerSisterhood.com includes more than 100 original content videos on sex and intimacy, supported Maris, caregivers and children, cope with side effects of treatment and more.Videos offer tips and stories of nutritional experts, doctors, counsellors, physiotherapists and members of the family, most candidates interviews with coffee itself.

"Blog Brenda,", awarded the top breast cancer Blog by blogs.com and named a Top Blogger by Bizymoms.com, provides a sage, often wise-cracking, yet always uplifté voice on workstations also various that loss of nails, weight gain, baldness nipples and caoutchouc.Autres site offerings include e-mail newsletter, expert sources, "Retail Therapy", a section containing elements to empower and inform families of the breast, as well as the FAQ breast cancer.
Mr Sharon Wilks, hematologist and breast cancer with centres of South Texas regarding BreastCancerSisterhood.com as a site that is useful for people with cancer care medical oncologist. ".""When first, I went to BreastCancerSisterhood.com, I remember thinking about all that I am honoured to interview patients who would benefit from the amount of support provided."

BreastCancerSisterhood.com regularly publishes new videos and will soon add guest bloggers, a community forum, RSS cancer and strategic partnerships.

Subject of BreastCancerSisterhood.com
Founded by cancer survivor Brenda Coffee, Breast Cancer Sisterhood.com ® Media survival network represents sister approach to assist and empower another by giving the gift of survie.Mission four girls and Breast Cancer one is to revolutionize how to save lives and support information is disseminated to newly diagnosed patients with cancer breast, existing survivors, patients with recurrence, Maris, caregivers, children and extended friends and your famille.Bien that there are many websites devoted to the breast, few are practical, simple and contain most of the patients need and site informations.Le families helping families deal with the physical effects and emotional ravaging processing and allows you to move forward with their lives.
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Cancer is hard work

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Having cancer can not be Hay bailing as fencing, or working long hours at the end of this advertising campaign, but no error: cancer is hard work for you and your family, especially if you take the chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is like having a gorilla on steroids hangover except it has not gone away the day after the treatment, or the day after that. When you feel better, although step back to normal when it's time for your next chemotherapy, following treatment will knock you down to new Chémo is cumulative, and lack of energy is a profound effect high school.

There were days when I have nothing done but resides in the bed and was still so exhausted, I thought that day would be my last."Seriously. sometimes I made James get in bed with me and hold my hand and asked him more like him, to reassure me forced" you made through the last chemotherapy and you will make from it, too, "it would be "You'll be just fine.""Word to dire.Et I was, but my exhaustion serious was sometimes effrayante.Je know this is easier said that done, but try not to all your fears. victim more likely, you'll know if you're experiencing is more than the exhaustion of chemotherapy, but if you are unsure, do not hesitate to call your doctor or 911

It is difficult for a person who has not had chemotherapy to understand this kind of OS Las tired. Sometimes even the simplest of tasks may feel Hercules, as you were forced to run a marathon or biked worms and rhythm with the best of them and you have. Lance Armstrong has been where you are now.It crossed the toughest chemotherapy its likely doctors of him, but it revint.Je came back, and will therefore you.

Cancer is hard on your staff caregiver. In reality, each separate thing is a caregiver is the easy part.It is blended and repeated driver, grocery shopper, Cook, maid, provider of child care, jobs guardian and moral support - as long as necessary - with love, the compassion, positive attitude and humor, which is part of the hard disk.

If you find yourself without a caregiver, you grant permission to let things go. your world will collapse not if the dry cleaning, not get picked up or floors look like that they you breeding hairballs.Let go .it ' is the time to take care of vous.Si your children are old enough, ask them to do the laundry and the pickup after themselves.Hey! it could happen!They may surprise you u.s. ' they need be led to the school, there may be another parent in the neighbourhood could take and in turn, offer to pay for some of their gas. friends and neighbors want to help, but they do not know what to do, so give them a job specific as providing dinner Sunday, by you to chemotherapy, etc.

At the end of the day, perhaps you and your family can pile all the in bed together, and each of you talk about your day.You will be especially pleased you do impractical a soccer or put a new roof on Mrs. Murphy's garage, and your family be pleased that they have more power than you dog effectuez.Le and? you decide, Phydaux had a day better than anyone.He obtained from chasing squirrels, where he wanted to pee and dig up the last of your pétunias.Je seized on cancer any day.

Surviving unite Blog women's breast cancer

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DALLAS (CBS 11 / 21 TXA) ―Uniting women with a shared experience; what is the purpose behind single and honest blog name une.Son Texas woman is Brenda Coffee and it is using its website as a way to help the patient breast cancer survive and fight through the recovery.

Click here to watch the video coverage.

Step 2 of the breast was the unexpected news that coffee blindsided. She found the overwhelming and difficult to process information."This is limit as being shoved off of a cliff and you are left to fend for themselves only to yourself and determine if you can steal.".

Yet, through countless surgery and chemotherapy, cycles coffee coffee declined to be a victime.Elle instead of this, was strong in his struggle for life. Now coffee says his goal is, "help women and their families avoid holes and get through the this time in their life... survive this time of their life together as a family and intact."

"Almost six years later, the coffee is a survivor, shares her experience in an honest blog and history.""[Website] breastcancersisterhood.com is a suite of my own experience of not knowing what to do next and how to get A step to step B," coffee explained.

On the blog, coffee written on all - nothing is off limits."Most doctors are uncomfortable to discuss topics, including sex," she says.

Same coffee writes about how she once a raisin, substitute as a nipple, following her mastectomy. ".""I have it where it was supposed to be, obtained this level - problem solved!" she says of the experience.

"The blog is an open forum to encourage and inspire other women that they are fighting breast cancer.""You can get thru this and you will emerge on the other side more that you were ever," coffee encourages its readers.

According to coffee, patients with breast cancer within are linked and have an established link of sisterhood - not by blood, but in this case by means of a blog. ".""I am as sister who will tell you everything you need to know… even best doctors, on the best days, may forget to tell you.".

Coffee hope other women will follow his example and find the strength of their experience of the document.Elle says allows information others feel as if they are not the only lasting a scary experience.
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Feet of breast cancer

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This week, I had the pleasure of meeting Taryn Rose, surgeon orthopaedic and founder of Taryn Rose shoes.In 1998, Mr. Rose has changed the footwear industry by creating a line of comfortable, yet beautiful, handcrafted shoes. I always thought "comfortable shoes" as being awkward-search or thick-soled athletic shoes orthopaedic shoes, but Taryn Rose shoes are anything but orthopaedic research.As we spoke, I suggested that she considers marketing for millions of women, like me, who have had breast cancer and the need for comfortable shoes because of peripheral neuropathy.

Simply, it means of neuropathy have been a sort of damage to peripheral nerves that control the feelings in our arms and legs. Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, diabetes and alcohol, are just some things that may cause lesions nerveuses resulting from numbness or a feeling of "ants" burning, weakness that made walking painful cramps and, after a few minutes, frankly unbearable.

Not all patients with cancer develop a neuropathy and the American Society of Clinical Oncology, says much fully recover over time.While many of the symptoms that I listed are worst scenarios, don't let fear of neuropathy stop you taking your oncologist processing recommends. I was one of those who developed the neuropathy in chemotherapy. Although most of my symptoms have disappeared since, I have always sweet numbness in my fingers and toes, more it feels sometimes as electric shocks are shooting down my leg. leads me to the shoe thing.Since chemotherapy, I've brought comfortable shoes the temps.Ils helped my neuropathy, gave me better balance and made running easy. Many of these shoes were Taryn Rose.My Favorites are called Fierce and dancer.

Even without neuropathy many of us, especially us mature experience problems with our feet and can wear is Carrie Bradshaw Sex and the City shoes, or may bring them only for short periods of time.My girlfriend, Gayle, called "special event" shoes one another friend called shoes "sit and sip".J ' love this terme.Il evokes a pretty nice South with honey entered his voice that says, "why Yes .j ' would love another Julep currency... as you walk on here and bring to me!"

Can you imagine Carrie Bradshaw with neuropathy? in the next sex and the City movie, I think Taryn Rose should be the designer shoe of choice. (After all, last season ended with the revelation of Samantha, she had cancer of the breast.Because Samantha character was always so immediate on everything, it say on "something shoe" and sing the praises of Taryn Rose.

Donc Taryn, Samantha - throughout the world the breast cancer women-perhaps you can give your next line of shoes as strength, Survivor and four girls and one.

Why step fear of breast cancer

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Many of you just start your cancer journey and feel scared and alone, wondering if someone else is there who knows how you feel.Oui.Je remember RAM that is not able to think of anything else, wondering if I would be here next year or the year of after that. I was terrified, affolé and depressed.

I remember cowering in my car in the parking lot of PetSmart, crying hysterically, unable to pull myself together to go and buy food or on the highway and dog house disk .j ' have been desperate to wonder if the PetSmart Lady had no experience with cancer and could empathize with me, perhaps put his arm around me and tell me which would be good. I looked him get in his car and away from lecteur.Elle seemed so carefree... so normal and I couldn't remember a time when I didn't know this of despair control as the sky was falling, and it would miss everyone but me so that I can bring your fears, I can give you hope telling you I am now in a great place in my life.Each time that I say this cancer was a gift, and I heard the other survivors say the same thing, my husband looks like to me I've lost my mind, but it is true.

Tara Parker-Pope, although blog writer for the NYTimes.com, the cancer.I survivor stories collection was spent the morning reading their words and came to the conclusion that for the most part, cancer survivors have two things in common: recognition and a new found zest for life.Here are some of the words and phrases I've drawn over 600 common stories.

• Life now is a combination of brilliance and gratitude.
• The gift of cancer has changed my life.
I now look at life through the grateful eyes •.
• More calm and completed over end.
• Life is not the same; it is so much better.
• Developed cancer, the better in my family and me.
• I myself more.
• I watch my family with addition of perspective.
• I fear death and death is more.
• The darkest hours and scariest my life turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
• I love my life!

Cancer is terrifying, but it is also a life changing.I say step we have deliberately chosen cancer, but as a mechanism of adaptation instinctual, we dug deeply for our forces and found cancer donations we brought. you are at a crossroads and many of the changes you engage and roads you take are a choix.Choisir wisely, more expensive, and "trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean is not on your own understanding; and the ways of your recognition, and it will make your right paths."

Causes of breast cancer, I cannot eat me what?

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If there had been a peanut butter, 12-step program a few years ago, I would have found a meeting, plopped myself down in front and said, line "HI.Mon name is Brenda, and I am a peanut-aholic butter." My habit was so bad, my son and my husband could buy their own jars and hide me because that I have broken out at least a large jar per week.No claim to a sandwich for me .j ' he ate spoon after the spoon, directly from the jar when standing on the kitchen counter file.

After my diagnosis of breast cancer I consulted a nutritionist and learned about the various sources of protein and decided there was a chance that I was not a peanut-aholic butter after all.My hearty consumption of peanut butter could be my body of screaming for multiple proteins. so my shame has been lifted!I learned also peanuts were high on the list of foods containing of phytoestrogens and not a good idea if I wanted my risk of reoffending. Because the phytoestrogens are thought to bind estrogen receptors in our body, and because my breast cancer has been fuelled by the estrogen, of I went cold on peanut butter and I am proud to say I did not get a spoonful from. I, however, found gross almond butter.

Unlike the peanut butter, almond butter gross contains no preservatives or added ingredients and less hydrogenated oils, no salted or sugar.Almond butter is full of monounsaturated fats, which are good for your heart and blood sugar control, more more calcium, iron and vitamin E that my "Type A" self comme peanut butter is prepared to do there, I took this a step further and is discovery became a connoisseurs who decided better almond butter gross was English and cannot be bought on the Internet. The problem was, at the time wherever I translated English books in US dollars and VAT and delivery, my weekly fix was a jar of $ 30.A small pot. If this was not enough, bad I recently discovered a new terrible twist to my butter nut saga.

Some phytoestrogenic foods may indeed be protection by linking to our listeners of estrogen, thus blocking estrogen, which looks like a good thing, but no one really knows those who is food good phytoestrogen and which are bad.Oh, but wait... the plot thickens. some experts suggest almonds can be as bad for me than peanuts.That may, or may mean not that they are on the list of phytoestrogen bad, but not knowing not, once again, I spent about a beloved nut butter cold foods

Addictions are things delicate: you start small, only a spoon, or both, and before that you know, you've consumed a pot any less of a semaine.Où it stop? Will I spend addicting things more, and what could be?This is how abusers become thieves, sale of goods stolen to complement their cravings? sometimes I long for the girl who has eaten of jelly and bean sandwiches and peanut butter soup Campbell during the reading of it Nancy Drew.I am really happy that she does not know of groundnut-aholics and phytoestrogens butter.