IT'S A NEW YEAR.

They say by 2030, 30 million people will be dying per year from cancer.....DO NOT BE ONE. No matter what our age, we can be fit and healthy.
Vow to make your diet healthier this year.
I have noticed that people who are dying always talk about time spent with loved ones not about the expensive handbag they didn`t get to carry or their new Mercedes that they didn`t get to drive.
There is enough of everything we need in life to make us happy and comfortable.
How many things can u use? Most of us have too much anyway. Do not be one of those people with the clothes hanging in your closets with the tag waiting on your size to change....give them away and as u give u will make space for more to come back to u and they will come in the size u can wear now.
We all have things we love to wear and the others stay parked, try wearing what u love and then getting another when that is worn out. Expensive handbags - do not watch the movie stars with these US$2000 bags that they have 50 of.
We come from the real world where a lot of them will soon be residing - those $20 million per picture price tags MUST come down -so please don`t kill yourself to buy one and put it on a shelf. The excess has to stop.
This year is for LOVE.....Enjoy the simple life.
Live in the real world, live in the now. Remember don`t get caught up in the drama of life.....Don`t buy into the doom and gloom.
Money is a system of energy. It is a neutral
energy that operates according to the beliefs
and perceptions we have each placed on it.-Carol Tuttle
We always have enough money.The only reason people experience lack is because of their limiting beliefs.
KNOW that as I told u before ALL WILL BE FINE IN 2009!
Or as my son says '2009 is mine'

MY pluses of 2008

Usain Bolt....still brings a smile to my face and I am sure will continue to do so , not only his races but how he has carried himself since bursting on the world stage in the biggest way possible. Problem is though I watched REAL SPORTS wrap up show for the year when they did their worst and best shows for the year and Brian Gumbel's most frustrating piece for the year was the one he did on Usain....and I quote 'lovely young man, but he had nothing to say, he answered yes or no to 90% of my questions.'
My question is so what is Michael Phelps?....... moronic ? At least Usain is more interesting.Brian when u r capable of such phenomenal speeds u don`t need to be able to talk........

JAMAICA'S Olympic team........THEY DID GREAT.......Small country producing big performances (Brian u should try interviewing one of the other winners on this team ) I now know why Asafa didn`t go far with his record breaking win.........

Christopher Tufton.......let's say yes to cassava,the chips are delicious.
Andrew Holness.....trying against all odds especially bureaucracy.
Darryl Vaz ...I know he is not liked but the man works and works hard.

All the people pushing healthy eating.

Kris Carr`s Crazy Sexy Cancer blog ....

rawfor30days.com 30 days to reversing diabetes ......

Shaggy...... it's all about the children.

Norma`s on the terrace.....after all this time, no one doing food better. We need her style doing raw food and trust me people will change their eating habits.

Tina Fey being a better Sarah than Sarah Palin herself......

Cuba having the # 1 tourism product ......with no oil (yet) and no money.

Bush DODGING THE SIZE 10 1/2.........I`m only sorry it didn`t connect...would have been a good send off present from IRAQ. Wifey Laura says it was an assault and it's only because her husband is a natural athlete he got out of the way.....even I who think excercise is lifting my tea cup could have avoided that slow moving shoe twice.....pleez!

Amazon.com #1 sales for Christmas......the shopping change has started.

Barack Obama ......." CHANGE HAS COME TO AMERICA."
AND IN THE NICK OF TIME!

Things we did in 2008 we won`t do in 2009

NEWS: Young people not watching MTV....didn`t I tell u that tv is going to mosey on down the road.....Young people watching their computers....By the way all u need is an Apple and u don`t need a TV , everything u desire comes through your computer.
(another thing I`m noticing is if u need to contact a young person text them, don`t call them.)
Then did u notice that the fool Bush still just as fool leaving as he was coming in?
One of his pardons had to be revoked the next day as he didn`t know that the man's father had given money to the Republicans ! Hello! U mean u r still not doing your homework ? U didn`t do any before 9/11. U went to war BECAUSE u didn`t do your homework, then leaving u still showing that u not doing any ? SHOCKING!
Then here is research findings from Wharton Business School concluding that malls will have to be more creative or they are going to look like abandoned warehouses......This Christmas is certainly going to put those stores that were barely holding on - under.
20% drop in sales this Christmas, even yesterday nobody returned anything as they had bought nothing.....The sales have now reached 60% off and still few takers......So, MACY`S has written who? Barack Obama of course......They want a bailout too....I wish them luck, the news that Israel is bombing Gaza must be the news report that's giving him chills this morning.
The thing that got to me this Christmas is the fact that people in JAMAICA were still running up their cards totally unaware that not only are the interest rates going up (I got my notice in the mail already) but credit is being cut back, so for a lot of us who borrowed, we will be asked to pay back sooner than later and lending will be scaled back. Now to have to pay back for wigs and nails come January is going to hit hard.....also travelling to catch the Miami sales for things we don`t need.....it's not going to be pretty when the chickens come home to roost, mark u I`m not one of the doom and gloom people as I believe we needed this, as America has been on a blitz for too long, and Jamaica is so Americanized that when they sneeze we catch cold..........But we really need to curtail the wasting now !
2009 is going to let us eat better as we won`t be able to afford all these processed foods and we are going to stop giving our children things they do not need, this Christmas a lot of children got one gift and not twenty. Santa got sensible.
In fact my husband and I didn`t give gifts this year as we needed nothing, and for my birthday just gone I got shoes, just what I needed.
First time in my life I`m wearing out shoes.....Normally I have so many shoes I get tired of looking on them and give them away, now I wear them down until they have to be thrown away, not given away. Things and times do change.
If u start 'tun u hand mek fashion' u will be in a much better place for 2009.

THE SUN WILL SHINE IN 2009

Ham done with black molasses glaze......Is that Robin Roberts I see eating that on TV? Didn`t she have cancer last year ?
I was talking to one of my friends who happens to be a holistic practitioner and he said no tests have been done to prove that cancer is helped by food so even that thing I showed you in my blog 'diabetes sent packing in 30 days' where you can watch the video 'simply raw,'none of these things, these developments, are tested by the medical world that's why the doctors merrily tell you to eat pork and have sugar when you are riddled with disease.
Is it that the pharmaceutical industry treats them so well they don`t need to try anything else?
It is obvious that people who eat a certain way......drink good water, exercise and don`t worry up themselves in other words think good thoughts and have clean spirits live longer and have a better quality of life than those that eat badly (when they belch it stinks) their skin is always oily and bumpy, they are always tired....... as to those that drink and smoke, not to talk about those men with those "beer" bellies that is really something ELSE in those bellies not beer........They all need a wake up call but are not getting it.
I had a wonderful discussion on facebook on Sunday morning on the topic of herbalife with a yogi(against) and a herbalife distributor who was saying it's great because it is in 70countries and is taken by 60 million people........hello so is coca cola. How does that make it great?
I`m not saying it's not better than bacon and jerk pork , but it has ephedrine in it , makes me shake, can`t be that good. Let's hope this is one of the things that will change and change soon in this new world we are going to experience.
Trying to eat right, drink right ,exercise, do right, live right, think right thoughts when everything around is showing you a different outcome, trying to do all that is hard enough I don`t need to shake too......surrounding ourselves with right-minded people helps, people of like mind makes life easier.
In 2009 lets KNOW that what doesn`t kill us only makes us stronger, and those of us who survived Jamaica in the 70`s and didn`t run away have the necessary skills to make it through again and we will come out on the other side better off . We learnt to focus on what's important and not on material things.
As I give thanks on seeing another Christmas and spending it with my husband and 2 sons .....I would like to thank you for staying and reading even when I got sidetracked from health issues.... for a while there it turned into an Obama blog but he is a lesson that we all need to learn that you never say die.....THE SUN WILL COME UP TOMORROW.
HAVE A SAFE AND HEALTHY-EATING CHRISTMAS.

JAMAICAN POLITRIX

I am completely befuddled...how come the Jamaican government has money to give to the Clinton Foundation (a President who did nothing for us ) keeping company with Kuwait, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia who gave between US$10-25 million. Don`t we have enough problems ?...... Pregnant mothers sleeping 2 to a bed in our main maternity hospital FOR EXAMPLE, shouldn`t we try to rectify our own problems first before giving to people who are not needy. Or is it that we have to give for America to give us aid ? Well guess what America has no aid giving anybody since they started that war that Mr.Bush could ill afford, they NOW NEED aid.In fact they need more than aid,they need prayers........ So we not getting diddly squat from them therefore we need to keep our little two cents.
Our health care and education systems are so sub-par after we used to be at the top in those sectors in the 50`s and 60`s, even the 70`s we were holding on. Now our University is rated at the bottom of the barrel and is our medical system rated ? I don`t even know.
I notice the people who love to shout about HUMAN RIGHTS not saying anything about the 2 to a bed pregnant mother situation. Isn`t that a human right to have your baby with a little dignity ?
Jamaica has Mr. Lethargy leading us and everywhere you go the people tell you "these people don`t have a clue" the only one that seems to be on top of things is our agricultural minister Christopher Tufton....How can they be deep into corrupt activities already ? Did they come in with 'getting theirs' as their number one priority ?
I wish to remind them that PNP people voted them in so it's very easy for them to lose their position as it wasn`t too strong in the first place, in fact it can fall at any moment as we are waiting on a court decision.
WE NEED PARTIES THAT YOUNG BRIGHT PEOPLE LIKE AN OBAMA CAN COME IN AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. The 2 parties we have now continue to play the same game of coming into politics for one reason and one reason alone - feathering their nests. They hug up the dons and then shout about crime.....crime will never stop once the politicians are granting favours to criminals.
Look at what is happening now where people who worked hard and had success at the different government agencies are being turned out to pasture because they are not in the JLP. That has to stop...If PNP comes in now the JLP ones will be sent packing..... What happened to keeping people on based on merit and performance ?
Truth be told if someone sees an Obama-like Jamaican willing and able to serve in the near future please tell me because look as I might in the 2 parties only Lisa Hanna is playing a half decent game, looks good and talks good, lets see if she does good, she is new we have to wait.

TV YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED

THE MOST BORING MAN I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME HAS BEEN GIVEN 'MEET THE PRESS'
You mean that there was no one else to get that post? NO ONE ? In the political world why would we get our interviews done by Mr Gregory? I have never heard him ask anything I wanted to know. One of the talking heads said the other day that not only is he boring he doesn`t come across as being very bright and that's who they have filling Tim Russetts shoes??????......give me a break!
AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH GREY`S ANATOMY ?
This "duppy story" with this dead man having sex with Izzy, we're going gay we're not going gay, Wang and this rough neck where is my delicious top heart surgeon that she was so in love with ?
Trust me it's on the way out..........along with the rest of TV.
I now watch Bravo-TOP CHEF- And u know they rerun all day so that's easy to catch.
Everything on HGTV - RUNS`S HOUSE MTV and FATHERHOOD on E, SUNDAY MORNING on CBS,OPRAH IS MUST SEE TV and of course American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and MY FAVOURITE of that genre SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE....... which are seasonal,and finally the cream of the crop BROTHERS AND SISTERS ON ABC-may Sally Field have a long life.
CNN etc. I can catch on my blackberry or my computer so ......... ANYTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND HEALTHY FOOD IS ALSO ON THE INTERNET SO TV I see u easing on down the road.
Most people now use UTUBE as their TV channel......What does that say ?
Analog went down in most states yesterday, seems to me they can soon take down digital too.
We are in serious times. It's so serious I try to keep it light as much as possible, but we all need to be tuned into things that can help us with our growth and sensibilities.I can hear u asking how does American Idol do that.....U watch young people grow into their God-given talent,remember Jenifer Hudson?
Boring TV doesn`t do that, neither does fire and brimstone preaching. Why do u think Joel Osteen is so popular?........He gives u the message simply.
Will Smith said on Oprah recently....U have to be focused because the life-cycle is birth-life-death and then rebirth and for those people losing their houses, losing their money, are seeing the death of people and things important to them, they are going to miss the rebirth if they are not focused and strong........Isn`t that what I`ve always told u ..don`t get caught up in the drama around u (A SPECIALITY OF TV) that means, FOCUS ON FAMILY WATCH LESS TV THIS CHRISTMAS (except for football)

CHANGE YOUR '5`Cs OF SABOTAGE'

Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe - people there fleeing to neighbouring South Africa that does not have the resources to take them.....Have you heard this all before ?
A little despot holds millions of people to ransom.

Watch the fool Bush make a joke over almost being clobbered with a shoe...this incident shows what a dangerous ass he is. Wouldn`t he have looked better going out with humility saying 'I feel your pain'......I AM SO SORRY........

AIG gives million-dollar bonuses to their top staff using bailout money as they do not want to 'lose them' . Hey AIG - Citicorp just laid off thousands I`m sure some over there would love to work for you.

ICE STORMS BATTER THE NORTHEAST USA. Have you seen the weather there?

ALL REASONS FOR THE TIMES 'MAN OF THE YEAR' BARACK OBAMA (who else could it be) NOT TO WANT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD but like him, all of us who are facing gloom and doom for 2009 need to know that just like how Obama is plunging head-on into these murky waters , WE need to do the same.... KNOWING it was great in 2008, it's going to be FINE in 2009.
Instead of preaching doom and gloom and watching negative stories on TV everyday and letting it consume our souls Carol Tuttle says we can change the 5C`S:
Comparing, Complaining,Commiserating,Cash Poor ,Compromising - to the 5A`s

Change comparing to ACKNOWLEDGING - as you acknowledge your God-given truth you can only acknowledge the truth of others.

Change complaining to ALLOWING - allow yourself to learn and grow.

Change commiserating to AFFIRMING -rather than talk about how bad it is talk about how good it is.

Change cash poor to AFFLUENCE - stop focusing on how little cash you have and focus on the affluent universe in which we live so it becomes your natural state of mind.

Change compromising to ACCOMPLISHING - do things that challenge you in a positive way so you can feel the awesome sense of accomplishment.
REMEMBER LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT!

HEALTH VS WEALTH

What's wrong with this picture ? The Prime Minister of Trinidad with all their oil wealth goes to Cuba to have surgery for a tumour on his kidney and it seems as if Cuban doctors have been treating him for a long time....Cuba who has no money has a better health service than Trinidad with all its millions.....So what's more important for a country?
Health or wealth..should we have proper health care or fancy high-rise buildings and roads and bridges?
I can tell u from experience that without your health u have NOTHING.
So if a country doesn`t spend on health services they will lose out big time. I think Barack Obama is facing that right now , reaping the "rewards" of years of neglect by the people before him. Let's not talk about my country and health service together or in the same sentence...Just doesn`t go.
Trouble is that it doesn`t seem as if the Trinidadian Prime Minister is learning the lesson, he seems to be just carrying on making sure he is healthy with another country`s health care while in his country people do what?
You mean in Trinidad the doctors can`t take out a kidney tumour?
I look around me and see the fancy roads being laid down in Jamaica and don`t get me wrong I enjoy driving on them but I wonder where does it take me if I need medical attention ?
My time in Jamaica`s # 1 hospital was fraught with frustration.
Missing specimens due to incompetence....Nurses and porters pushing me with a fresh cut over potholes in A WHEELCHAIR to reach another part of the hospital to get xrayed.
Paying for private nurses doesn`t guarantee getting a competent nurse. Only having them work on you over time and being able to pick one gets you the cream of the crop by then it can be too late.
It's not even funny and money doesn`t mean service, incompetence is there rich or poor, public or private....
So people fly out, but where are they going Miami? Really, to what?
In my first bout with cancer a doctor over there told me I had gas and prescribed tablets that I ended up taking 11 per day, it made me feel so good....a friend who is a pharmacist saw me with it and asked me why was I taking it, so I told her the doctor prescribed it for me and she said "funny we only give these to terminally ill people to keep them happy and pain-free "......SOME GAS !

A 2001 BMW 323CI BURNS ??

Stress......although we say 'I`m stressed' so easily, those who say it everyday normally don`t know what the meaning of the word is, but recently I have a front row seat watching someone truly stressed.
My husband gave out his car to be fixed at the BMW dealers here in Jamaica and when I took him to pick up the car after a one day stay they took us around the back into the garage,as we walked toward the car it seemed fine except all windows were a bright bronze,on opening the door the inside was full of soot there was a huge hole in the drivers seat and under the dashboard was entirely burnt out........ The smell was unbelievable,did i say that this car a coupe, is his baby?
They said they did not notice it and just found out when they went to bring the car around to make it ready for delivery....so a car burnt in their garage during the night and not even their security guard saw or smelt anything....Amazing!
They said they would get back to us and that stretched on for a week, no car offered to drive ,no nothing.If i wasn`t there he would have had to take a taxi to work.
Then came the bombshell .... They are taking no responsibility for what happened, they don`t know what happened, we must contact our insurance company and take it from there.
Well talk about stress.....my husband has had a headache ever since...... as you don`t take your car in to the dealers and hear you have no car 24 hours later and nothing to come of it. Point is - everyday we think we have problems - check next door, there is someone in worst shape than you..
Stress comes in all shapes, all sizes and once you have life there are stressors out there for you.Things happen that we cannot ignore and although sometimes we feel to go under our covers and not come out, most of the time we can`t.
Life goes on, it's the time of the year where if you own a car you will need it to visit your relatives and have what ever fun you had planned to have . No one wants their car in a shop at Christmas, and no one wants to have a company that you have supported from they became dealers of BMW,to treat you like this when you have been faithful to the brand for years, your car is only serviced there, even your son has followed your footsteps and replaces a BMW with another BMW......
All I have to say is, if a car sits and combusts by itself with no cigarette or nothing coming close, those cars or those parts should be recalled as now we are hearing rumours that he is not the only one to have had this happen.....
Talk about stress ....I tell him things will be FINE in two thousand and NINE....We have lots to be thankful for,
He could have been in the car.

SIMPLIFY EVERYTHING THIS CHRISTMAS

NEWS FLASH!!!!!!! Latest Cancer Report says that CANCER will replace HEART DISEASE as the #1 KILLER by 2010!
Aren't these the same people that told us the other day that due to lifestyle changes and new diagnostic tools WE are winning the war against cancer ? Well the WE that is winning the war is not the same WE that is going to have cancer as their # 1 problem come 2010.
It seems to be that WE in the developing countries are the ones in problems, WE HAVE INHERITED THE DEVELOPED WORLDS' UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE we smoke, have high-fat diets and are following in their footsteps while they have left us the ugly shoes.
So they are winning the war and we don`t even realize that a war is staring us in our faces as we treat the family to fast food meals every Friday.
Now enter all the pressures facing the developing world, man-made foods plus financial meltdowns, what is going to happen to us ? Wait....... Stress is going to kill us as people define themselves by their material wealth.
Please people, material wealth has nothing to do with who u are, strip it away, it will be less stressful. For example if u only have one home u won`t have to worry that 3 places are being damaged when a hurricane comes, u will only have one roof to replace, and u won`t have to worry where to park your boat or your plane from the wind and rain.
Try and simplify your life, more importantly try and simplify your food this Christmas.
Another recent study has found that sugar may be addictive. Duh!! Did they think that all these people saying they have a sweet tooth WANT to have a sweet tooth? I know some whose bellies are about to reach their chin and they can do nothing about it as pastry calls, they answer.
Every Christmas I would drink bushels of sorrel that meant I was drinking bags of sugar.
Sorrel is good for cancer patients. Put it through your juicer, especially a Champion,then add ginger, no sugar.If I can drink it without sugar, anybody can. I now understand on reading this article why it was my favourite drink not only at Christmas but all year.
Ham is NOT GOOD FOR U no matter how delicious it is. PLUS u do not have to eat 12 different pieces of cake on Christmas day. I don`t know where that rubbish came from. Christmas is not about food and liquor . It is about GIVING........NOT TO OURSELVES, IT IS FOR US TO RECOGNIZE PEOPLE IN NEED AND HELP THEM .
Instead of gourmandizing ourselves lets think of that father who has lost his wife, mother-in-law and 2 children, in the blink of an eye. Think of his Christmas. As he said "PLEASE TELL ME WHAT TO DO?". Can u imagine u r at work thinking your family is safe and sound, trying to eat right and live right and a jet drops from the skies and wipes out your family in your home where you left them ?
We need to get the lesson LIVE EVERY DAY AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST.....It just may be.



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OPRAH...Don`t beat.......treat yourself better

Well Oprah is saying what we can see for ourselves, and I am wondering as I listen to her, why do we beat up ourselves so much. Her friend Gayle is coming on Good Morning America to talk for Oprah.....why?
I have been feeling her pain for over a year now as I watch her rear-end expand behind her.
We don`t want to hear from Gayle. Although smaller, her rear is completely out of whack too.....We don`t need anybody to explain why Oprah has fallen off the wagon and is back to over 200 pounds.
We are all guilty of falling off the wagon with things that are our achilles heel. What if all of us were perfect and never had a fall or a slip up now and then, the world would be a boring place wouldn`t it? Oprah has had a lifelong battle with food and we have had front row seats to it.
I look at her and see that her beautiful head of hair is long gone, her weight doesn`t bother me as much as that - years now I`ve been telling my friends that she was having health issues. Long before she admitted to her thyroid problems, I kept saying it..........Under her eyes were screaming out loudly.
What amazes me is that she has chefs, all the money in the world, spiritual advisors,doctors, personal trainers and on and on.... she doesn`t have our excuse of it being hard to stay straight as somedays we are on the road and can`t find anything to eat........she is taken care of 24/7 from her car to her plane so why these issues ?
Because it has nothing to do with that.....we all make excuses but once you backslide your body takes over and the cravings start and you lose control. So rich or poor, black or white, spiritually tuned - yes or no......we are all on this earth as spirits having a human experience, not the other way around. The excuse I`m only human doesn`t move me.......we all have something that triggers us....things we haven`t worked out yet, mistakes we repeat till we work on ourselves, forgive ourselves and get it right......some of us have issues with money, some with food, some with health, some with all of the above and on and on...... but one thing we know is that we are all on a journey and working hard to make it a smoother ride with not so many potholes. As the statement goes LIFE IS A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION. It takes work. It takes LOVE...Love of self!
Oprah`s lack of taking care of her food-urges is damaging her health I`m sure. "Eating whatever I want " cannot be good for thyroid problems..... She says she is talking the talk but not walking the walk, and it makes her disappointed in herself.......Tell me about it. To whom much is given, much is expected.
We who are TRYING to WALK the TALK beat ourselves up whenever we feel we are not representing. Oprah all I have to say is give thanks you are not walking the Cancer walk where getting off the path can KILL you before your next round of tests.........

Wellness Teams

I have come to the conclusion that just as how people go to their doctors ( general practitioners )and they refer u to the specialist......A neurosurgeon, gynaecologist etc., the wellness community needs to have a team of wellness specialists e.g. if u go to a massage therapist and she finds something she should send u to a chiropractor......the reflexologist might send u on to a holistic practitioner. The wellness world has nutritionists and food scientists etc. so there is always a team of people to look after u, just like how u schedule your gynae twice a year, u should go to your holistic practitioner regularly to make sure your meridians are flowing and everything is on track. What's the draw back?
Because of a scarcity mindset (always around) they knock each other and hog everything instead of passing it on.........The massage therapist says 'let me rub this knot out for u' when they know u need realignment and they can`t help u.....The reflexologist bucks up on a blockage and doesn`t recommend the holistic practitioner, and on and on.
Real crab in the barrel, but guess what ? I`m sure that the medical doctors didn`t work harmoniously from day one, I`m sure the GP`s were delivering babies in fact some still are and won`t send the people who don`t know better to the obstetricians so what don`t happen in a year will happen in a day and they will soon start working together....The raw food people will realize that some foods are better eaten cooked and not think they are superior to vegans and the nutritionists will stop saying u can use sugar to sweeten all your drinks.
Some of the websites are crossing over and Dr. Oz is certainly showing us that wellness is the name of the game while not alienating his colleagues.
My feeling is that everything in time. Just as how we are now realizing we need to grow our own food and eliminate all garbage from our diets. The wellness world will soon get it together as if they don`t we are the ones that will suffer.
Have u noticed that one of the most sought after professions in this time of doom and gloom (when people are losing their jobs) are nurses....WHY do u think that is?

DROP IN CANCER DEATHS

This healthy eating thing is catching on, make no mistake about it, death rates from cancer are on the decline because people are being more aware of what they are putting in their bodies.
Why do u think 'WHOLE FOODS' has turned into the mega success it is?
People are now realizing that since we can`t control the air and all the free radicals coming at us, we have to control all the poisons we are putting inside our bodies.
Read this NY Times article - "Parsing the Cancer Statistics" - it says how less men and women in the USA are dying from cancer and there are less cancers being diagnosed because of lifestyle changes and new treatments etc.
We are preventing like never before, we ARE winning the game, we know the basics and more of us are doing it. We realize it's the fundamentals that will make us win the game. As a friend in the wellness industry told me 2 years ago, CANCER ISN`T A MYTH ANYMORE.
Not everybody is burning up their cells with chemo and most of those that didn`t are around to tell the tale. So people now know there are alternative treatments. The doctors still have the hold though. We still listen to them as if they are Gods and they still treat symptoms and not root cause. When I speak to them they say they can`t advise us to do anything but chemo and radiation as what if what we do doesn`t work we will blame them forever so we allow them to burn us to death, not even thinking we won`t be around forever anyway especially after they burn us with round after round .........Whose cells can survive a year of chemo ? Something like pneumonia usually steps in or like a recent acquaintance of mine who had chemo and radiation going at the same time and it burnt a hole in her stomach so she couldn`t stop bleeding.........She certainly didn`t die from breast cancer.
Maybe the chemo and radiation had taken care of the cancer but her body couldn`t survive the onslaught.....I think all this just shows how different we all are......
One thing I KNOW FOR SURE - If chemo and radiation takes care of your cancer and they tell you those famous words 'you are in remission' and you don`t change your way of eating, don`t breathe more, don`t walk more, don`t get more sleep, don`t stop stressing out yourself- remember stress is not something that happens to you -you do it to yourself.......The big boy is coming back to look for you, and depending on your genes it will be sooner rather than later.

Eating for cancer

I listened recently to a woman on one of our local television stations say that her cancer had returned and she asked if she should change her diet and the doctor told her it wasn`t necessary.....Same thing they said to me...remember i was told i could eat jerk pork. I have always felt they tell us that as they feel we can entertain ourselves before we die...Why don`t they tell the heart patients and diabetics that too.
I want to say that diet is proven to help cancer patients just like the heart patients and diabetics.
Tell us the truth. The truth is not that we are going to die so we can eat anything we want...The truth is we have a fighting chance.....I had a friend with liver/colon cancer eating cow foot, porridge with condensed milk, and all kinds of juice with sugar and yes she died and died quickly....Now i`m not saying she wouldn`t die but her quality of life would have been so much better (can u imagine trying to pass out cow foot from a diseased colon)and u never can tell she may have lasted longer eating greens and drinking green juice. I will take my chance with raw food fighting cancer everytime.
So the woman on TV said she decided to change her diet anyway as she had breast cancer 10 years ago and now it had come back in her lungs...Smart lady.
Well while listening to her it dawned on me that after her first bout with cancer she should have changed her diet then, not wait for it to return then change her diet. I changed my diet after my first bout of cancer and then after a while (8 years ago)I went back to square one.......If she had stayed true to a green diet maybe she wouldn`t be walking this way again......Maybe she would have gotten 28 years like me:)
Stress also need to be avoided....Something is going to kill us lets make no mistake about that, but we don`t need to have a poor quality of life before the bus hits us.
For those of you that called and expressed worry about my tests. They are AOK. I seem to have been over-tired....(work nowadays is double stressful) I also need to find places to eat so that i can stop carrying my container everywhere I go.
THANKS FOR CARING.

MAKE YOUR GIFTS THIS YEAR

An article came out in one of our papers and it had what to buy our rich friends for Christmas....things like gourmet chefs cooking for them ...... the only things rich friends are to get this Christmas is advice on where to donate some of their money. How many scholarships can they give for school children etc. those sort of things.....Don`t we realize what's happening in the world and that the change is about to descend on us, whether we like it or not?.... Are we still living in a fool's world ? Like the shoppers that made black Friday sales go up 7% from last year.
There are 2 ways to look at it, maybe people are only shopping sales so they get a bang for the buck, or are they still shopping for shopping sake, using the credit card because they won`t pay it till later. Let's hope it's the former.... the prices were so slashed, they have finished shopping for the year.
Sorry Mr. retailer but how I`m reading it - you will be having no Christmas this year. For our sake I hope I`m right. This is one year we will shop at our peril.
Here in Jamaica I thought we had realized that the game is over but when I opened the newspaper and read that article on Christmas gifts I realize we haven`t learned a thing. Went to a friend recently and she gave me sweet pepper seedlings which are thriving well in a pot on my patio. Highly appreciated gift. Those are the gifts we need to be giving this year. For the past 2 years I have asked whoever pulls me as a pixie to give me a basket of fruits and veg from the market..... Wonderful! It's things I would have to buy anyway....No unwanted foolishness - reasonable and healthy.
This Christmas be sensible, children also need to be taught to give instead of overget.
'Tun han mek fashion' - that's our dialect for make your gifts with your hands instead of buying. Make jams,tamarind balls, bake cakes, embroider towels, frame a photograph, paint a picture, string beads for bracelets, earrings and necklaces, whatever your talent is - use it........We did it in the seventies with great aplomb, we can do it again.