We are what we eat. Some may still disagree to this, and most of the times realising it only when it is too late, can be really really sad and devastating.
I myself, I never consider myself a healthy person to begin with. I love junk food, I still do. I love instant noodles, over the past 5 years though, I must have say, I did very well, I think throughout 5 years, I can be quite sure I have not have more than 10 packets, somewhere 5-9 packets, didn't really count. I do like to have it but I control, I would always tell myself, I can easily cook up any noodles from dried noodles I have in pantry. At least I can avoid the MSG packed sachet, not knowing if the noodles are still the same with wax, not easily digestible though??
Anyway, my story begins when my buddy Jasmine was diagnosed with Sarcoma Cancer stage 3 at the young age of 34. I was still a party goer, drink quite excessively, eating lots of junks, I can have a bag or 2 bags of chips for a meal, sometimes a bag of 275g corn chips nachos for a whole day, not eating fruits, drinking carbonated drinks, eating lots of ready packed food, from cans, from ready packets, even microwave ready food, cook a lot with microwave too back in year 2007 when I was in New Zealand. I am just a total unhealthy freak.
In 2006, I was suspected colon cancer and was immediately referred to hospital for a scan as I was having a 3 weeks constipation! YES! THREE WEEKS of food intake with nothing comes out!!
That scary experience didn't wake me up either, so I perfectly understand how most people still not taking action to their better health cause me neither. Not until Jasmine, my buddy from UPM, we were coursemate and also housemate. She and myself having similar issues in relationship. Our men stray. I chose to give up, he is happily married now, the woman of his life changed him, good for him.
My friend on the other hand married and divorced, we strongly believe her cancer was from stress, from longing for her dearest ex. Whatever it is, we cannot change ones mindset, you can only change if only you want to, not from others. He may had changed, feeling changed, she has not. Not until the days when she died. She said she didn't eat well, not much of vegetables and fruits and water in her diet, yes but stress weighed quite a bit too.
Most cancers or diseases are caused by 4 main factors:
1. Diet
2. Stress
3. Lifestyle
4. Heredity
Knowing the factors and not doing anything to change, even if you yourself insist not to CHANGE, please do stop poisoning your family, your kids. If you are a wife, cooking at home or mum feeding the family or someone who is in charge of feeding others, please please please take action now. You are either feeding nutritious healthy real food cooked from wholefood or poisoning them with non food GMO, chemical packed, full of preservatives, ready processed food. Make a good choice!
I know I was too paranoid until there isn't any real food to eat anymore and that can mean STRESS! So no, I have re-tuned my mind again, from one of the many Cancer books I have read, says that we should not refrain from eating the bad food the junk food, if that's what you like, just eat it, but in lesser amount, much lesser. Abstaining from it, not getting your cravings filled can mean STRESS and we all know stress is NO#1 KILLER! So, yeah, let's just eat it :) Find the balance, eat the right food.
Eating healthy doesn't have to mean expensive. You may be spending a lot in getting all organic food but do you know if you are cooking them wrongly, you may have lost most of the most needed nutrients and vitamins, not only that, and you even create acrylamide! Acrylamide formed in some foods by high cooking temperatures, Foods in which acrylamide develops when cooked at above 120°C include potato chips, french fries, bread and processed cereals. This make me feel guilty when I eat my favourite McD's french fries, that too, I guessed, not more than 10 times, possibly less than 5 times for the past 5 years. I deserved a good pat on my back.
Cooking above 120°C, is considered high temperature, even oil, any oil, the good first cold press olive oil smoke point is at 129°C, anything more will turn oil to toxic. This is why I swear hard on Thermomix because of the low temperature cooking, totally healthy.
I love myself more, my body more, my family even more now, if you too have been there seeing someone dying from disease since beginning as a healthy person being diagnosed up til deathbed to seeing with your own eyes at mortuary, your friend being pulled out from fridge door in the black zipped up bag, unzipped to reveal your friend cold, hard, lifeless. That snapshot scene remains forever in my mind. Life can be so crazy short and unpredictable.
Ok, I am still eating a lot of noodles which I need to reduce, lots of soy sauce too. The rest, I think I have reduced well, very well. For cancer patients especially, whether or not to cut out meat, the most important thing to cut out is sugar. Which includes simple carbohydrates like grains. Grains like rice, oats, wheat, plain flour, bread, cakes, pasta, noodles, etc. All these will turn to glucose which feed cancer cells. Ketchup and mineral water especially, is scary, especially after seeing pH demos from Kangen water reps. I have seen a few and recent read about Alkaline water put me off too. Everything has to be done in moderation, alkaline water may be good to be used or taken as like extra supplements (not supporting supplements in pill forms though) yet not to 100% replace all water intake with it. I was sold too of the idea, until I read the recent sharings in social media, then I kinda taken back a bit. Check my sharings here about overdoing with alkaline water.
Yes, we are what we eat, even heredity, inheritance diseases genetic is mostly how are parents eat is how our grandparents eat and that is how we eat passing on to how our kids eat. Makes any sense? Eating very salty, of food is cooked with lots of MSG, we get to our acquired taste, we always long for mother's cooking, grandmother's cooking. We tend to want to copy their cooking too. If it's good healthy cooking, I'll say why not. My dad's side of family, grandfather died of cancer in his 40s I think and wife, my grandmother died of cancer too at 70 earlier stage was gallstones, I have accompanied her during my teens in hospital. Mum's side of family, grandpa died of high blood pressure, tuberculosis (TB), granny died of diabetes, part of her leg's toes was chopped off (I was in hospital with her too). Dad is diabetes patient, high blood pressure, mum is having thyroid, sister is having gallbladder stones. With family full of diseases, I definitely need to change, if not now, WHEN? I don't exercise though, eventhough it's 10% of healthy lifestyle, I definitely need it.
Past weeks, I received news of 2 friends having faced with cancer stage 4. It was a sudden news. It makes my mind wander too much hence the need to write this. First of all, remembering my girlfriend Jasmine, who fought a good fight, whom made me change my lifestyle, my eating habits. Really being very thankful to her and because of her, I am sharing with others the need to eat healthier starts from home.
Back in 2011, where I was in and out hospital with her, I read every articles I can find in the hospitals while waiting for her, sometimes it will be a whole day sometimes I just admit her, spend a bit of time, off home to cook and then return, to and fro, then going back to my family and at the same time my uncle had some mishap with blood clot in his brain needing surgery, he was in and out ICU twice while myself struggling with Jasmine who is quarantined after first cycle of chemo, it was crazy stress that time, I remember I cried my lungs out, I lost myself, I was in total depression just for about an hour or 2. Not long but enough to kill me. I went crazy! Lots of voices in my head. I definitely do not want anyone to go through what I went through if I am falling sick.
In hospital I remember seeing some poster about angiogenesis inhibitors, it was something like below pictures. In layman term, the cancer cells feeding itself and grow bigger from feeding tubes, in order to fight cancer/ tumor, those cells have to stop growing or grow smaller. The way to do that is to stop feeding the cell but cutting off the capillaries, the feeding tubes, the angiogenesis. One of it is to stop eating sugar. Everyone going sugarless will at one point, the transition period where the body is fighting because of low sugar level, or perhaps it was the signal sent out by cancer cells crying for help because they are starving. It is all possible to starve cancer cells. Some will say no meat as it is acidic, more vegetables and therefore cancer cell will be starved. Not too sure about just changing to alkaline will work, it seems like sugar is main culprit. So removing simple carbs is really important, we can get the balance by having complex carbohydrates which is in vegetables like pumpkin, cauliflower, broccolli or kale. Broccoli has lots of phytochemicals that are powerful antioxidant and anti-cancer compounds. Cooking methods can lose the goodness though. Steaming is best preferred with only 80°C at most, with Thermomix, you can even stir fry at 60°C, after all vegetables can be eaten raw but only thing with raw food is, we need some heat to kill bacteria, normally 40°C and below is considered raw, well, we can eat above raw but not overcooked ;)
This is all about cancer I am reading this few days, yes it is bothering me.
Read up from doctor who didn't like medicine either. She survived from stage 4 lung cancer.
And Dr Richard Teo who died from cancer and shared with us what he was as a doctor.
For now, I am praying for my 2 friends:
To 2 friends who is fighting now at stage 4, we all know you can do it! The key is with you, don't give up. Be the walking miracles.
To the sis who is 5 months pregnant with lung cancer stage 4, 70% lung affected, immobilised is temporary, be stronger than the cancer cells it's alien cells, kick them off your system, you can do it! Fight for yourself, fight for your inborn baby, fight for your loved ones.
*just received an update today evening.... she's under coma, baby need to be out and delivered naturally while in coma but baby didn't make it, her kidney is giving way too. Oh God, please help her, please let her be stronger.
To our sweet lovely friend, you are not alone, you are very much loved many cared and visited. Whichever options you are going for, you know we will support you, time is tough, too much information overloaded, never be afraid to shout out for help. Stage 4 breast cancer.
We will pray for you and all fighters all there! Stay safe everyone.
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