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What a difference a day can make. Oh so true. Just happened to my neighbor who thought she had a cold and heavy chest feeling. She went to her doctor and complained about the constant cough and was prescribed antibiotics. Doctors are trained to look for the horse and not the zebra…that’s actually taught at med school.  Only look more deeply if the patient keeps on coming back. In one of my progressive doctor’s office she had a small statue of a zebra.  I went to her once, then she moved to a small island off Maine. (sigh)

My neighbor’s course of antibiotic treatment didn’t help and different antibiotics were prescribed and more and more until her doctor ordered a chest X-ray, and you, the reader, have probably guessed this one already; lung cancer that already spread.  Prognosis, terrible.

Last night I was on Facebook when I received a DM from my other neighbor. “Did you hear about, Mary?” (Name changed for protection.) I grabbed my cell and called my messenger.  She told me the ugly details. Radiation, chemo, months to live. The family is crushed! (understatement)

A similar situation happened to a friend in Arizona. He was feeling well at Christmas and by the end of January he complained of problems swallowing. In a few more days it was disruptive enough to send him to his doctor who said he had to ween himself off blood thinners (heart related problems) before he could have an endoscope.  A few days later the test showed a large cancerous tumor. A month later, my friend passed away from esophageal cancer.  I didn’t even have time to bombard him with alternative treatments.

“What a difference a day can make.”

My friend and neighbor, L. said it best when she said, “What a difference a day makes.” It is so true, You are going along enjoying life and WHAM, life will never be the same.

Let’s look at the facts. Cancer rates are still growing and the treatment is pretty much the same: radiation and cancer.  Really?  All the money sent to the American Cancer Society for research and they haven’t found a better treatment option?

http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@research/documents/document/acspc-041776.pdf

http://www.wcrf.org/cancer_statistics/

http://gersontreatment.com/if-it-is-so-good-why-havent-i/

However, when I really look closely at the 2 lifestyles of the people I mentioned above, is it really that shocking that they both have/had rapidly spreading cancer? They both smoked cigarettes, ate a terrible diet, one drank to excess and both had other serious health issues before being diagnosed with CANCER.  It shouldn’t be a shock. Were they asking for it? Heck no!  They were just enjoying life and living it according to their terms. They never imagined that they would get a cancer diagnosis down the path of life.  But what they really hurt with their reckless lifestyle are their loved ones.  My neighbor has young daughters and a husband that depends on her. My Arizona friend leaves behind a wife that was hoping to enjoy retirement with him and children and grandchildren. He was a terrific man who I would always call when I was in a jam, and he would come to the rescue. I called him once from Florida to rescue my friends who broke down in their boat on an upstate NY lake and called me asking what should they do and help? I’ll call so and so….He always came through.

So, my best advice and the purpose of writing this post is, plan ahead. Start taking care of your body now while you still have good health and then maybe you will fight off colds, diseases and cancer. Do it now while you have control of your bodies.  I strongly recommend to start healing yourself now and don’t wait for the CANCER diagnose before you take proactive action. TAKE IT NOW!

Take a life lesson from the people I mentioned above. If not for you, then for people who love you and depend on you. You owe it to them!   Think what would happen if you were to get sick and leave this life too early?  Who would really suffer? Parents, friends, and children that depend on you?  When you look at it that way eating and having a lifestyle that is irresponsible is selfish!  That’s right, SELFISH!  Do you think so much of yourself and not of others that you can eat, drink, not exercise without consequences? GREEDY!

You owe it to your loved ones, yourself, your community and the world to be the BEST person possible and that comes with eating the greatest food for your body. It is also about setting a good example to people around you and to your children and grandchildren.

How to do this?

• Eat raw vegetable when possible everyday…good way is through juicing.
• Chose organic! (You think organic eating is expensive…wait until you pay for cancer treatments even with health insurance.)
• Skip sugar (feeds cancer cells)
• Don’t eat processed carbs
• Gluten…not good for you
• Nope on the alcohol.  I don’t care want they try to tell you on TV. Alcohol is poison.
• Move it!  I love 10 minutes on a rebounder . Click here to see what it is. Click Here!
  
• Drink lots of H20.
• Skip all the stress. Take time to sit on a beach, read a fiction book, eat by candlelight.
• Don’t eat red meat with added hormones, antibiotics, fed bad diets, slaughtered inhumanely with

  
  

  Don’t eat me.

  adrenaline rushing though their bodies…so BAD for you. Unless you hunt it yourself skip red meat.

In conclusion, the message here is take control of your own life through healthy living and hopefully live longer and happier.  Is eating healthy a guarantee that you will live longer? No. There is no guarantee in life but your chances improve greatly.

Plus:

1. You look better!
2. You feel better!
3. You’re friends will like you more.
4. You will inspire your friends and children.
5. Less animals will have to die to support your diet.
6. You will support organic farmers.
7. Your skin will glow.
8. You will just give the aura of good health to people around you.

   
   

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9. You will slow the aging process.
10. You will look younger.
11. Less colds.
12. Better moods.
13. Less headaches.
14. That rash will go away.
15. Better memory.
16. Better eyesight.
17. Stave off dementia.
18. Wrinkle reducer.
19. Your skin will be more elastic.
20. What anxiety?

What a difference a day can make….It could be a good difference!!!  Think about that. To your health!