yeah, better to continue clogging your arteries with milk products , juicy steaks and pharma drugs every lethal illness is still a mystery.... uhm, you gotta listen to your doctor and big pharma which admit they DO NOT know what is the root cause of any disease. nonetheless, they perfectly know how to sell you their stuff , wow
Thanks for your input everyone. She is going to go out fighting like hell, hoping for the small chance of a "cure". Great advice about the juicer etc., that one of you made earlier. We are in active discussion with the doctor how to maintain her diet throughout this process. She is still on a waiting list for the chemo treatment. We'll know better in a couple of weeks whether or not she will pull through this. The is intense chemo, that will leave her immune system destroyed after the first week of treatment. God help her, if you believe in such an entity. I still chose to relate this to trading. Don't give up without one hell of a fight, but know where to cut your losses.
Honestly, I want to believe stuff like this, I really do. But there is no real data to back this up. I've seen far too many people who abuse their bodies with bad food, alcohol, drugs and never exercise and live to be 95 and I see vegetarians, vegans and other holistic types keel over at 50. Enough to question the data. I'm not saying you are wrong, I really wish it was as simple as you make it out to be. My own personal theory about this is that the worst thing on the body is not dairy or meat or drugs, but stress. I've seen people with 4% bodyfat in perfect health who have stressful lives who succumb to cancer and heart disease at very early ages. And then I see people who who don't do those things but are very happy people who always see the glass half full and somehow they get through everything. Now I'm not saying one can be obese and smoke 3 packs of cigs a day or drown themselves in liquor and just be happy and they will be fine. So let's be reasonable. Say a person does exercise, eats "generally" well, drinks in moderation but yet has a low stress life, I believe that person will long outlive the vegan or vegetarian who has stress. Stress is really fascinating, especially considering many of us here are traders. One of the reasons why Europeans live longer then us despite having diets high in saturated fats, they eat all animal all the time, drink a lot, smoke a lot and man do they go to town on pastries. But their stress levels are surprisingly low. And as a result, they stay thin, live longer and have less cancer. I really believe stress is the key variable here. I've watched how people's health can deteriorate when they lose their job or go through a divorce while all other factors stay the same. Studies have even show how people who commit murder or other crimes without getting caught yet die away slowly from stress every day. I think the first thing I would do if I got really sick is move to the coast somewhere, maybe Hawaii. And eliminate all stress from my life. Certainly focus on nutrition as well, but really get away from the masses and live in a peaceful environment. BTW, there was an interesting study that just came out. It showed that people with terminal cancer or other serious diseases showed drastic improvements when moved from a hospital say in the midwest to one near the ocean with a view. They studied thousands of patients and simply changing their location to a serene and peaceful area turned their health around. Again relating to the stress factor.
Yeah Maverick-- my great grandmother smoked and drank a 2 liter bottle of coca cola almost daily and she lived untill 99--- rarely sick, physically healthy appearance and mentally sharp until she just dropped walking her dog. Maybe it's the alternative med folks selling us a bill of goods? surf By the way Mav, why wait until you are sick to move to the coast and enjoy life? Read the 4 hour work week and join Baron ( he suggested the book to me) and I living that lifestyle. After my divorce, I have destressed majorly--- now getting into shape and slimming down ---are my goals. Aligning my body with my mind.
Stress, of course its a major, HUGE factor. Ultimately, the impact of stress is very similar to arteries clogged by mucus and calcium. How? When you're stressed, you have muscle tensions. When muscles (incl. plenty of the small ones) are tense, they press on blood vessels resulting in poorer blood flow. Voila, mystery solved. I had this exact problem for many years (being a trader...) I know that one can have tense muscles *almost* ALL the time. Grind teeth at night. Stiff neck and shoulders. Relaxed blood flow is what we all need to live a healthy and long life. The same reason is behind gray hair. Everyone knows that stress contributes to going gray. Many say its because stress depletes vitamins and minerals. Could be, but the immediate effect is: constriction of blood vessels which ultimately should nourish hair with melanin! We can simply judge a persons health just by looking at his/her hair. The loss of pigment is always a very bad sign. The other thing which shortens life besides poor circulation are usually parasites. These are much easier to treat than cancer.