Cancer is 'an opportunity for change' -If you have cancer then it's your body's own way of telling yourself this: That you cannot, of course, go on the way you are forever... Now, with the realisation that a real change is needed you have to ask yourself: 'How committed are my to making the vital and necessary changes needed to bring about a health transformation in my life and beat the cancer?' You see, as Doctor Larraine Day once said: 'Some people chose to die rather than change their habits or lifestyles.'

Maybe you're someone who could change their lifestyle pretty quickly, knowing that there is something so greatly at stake...but for many, their detrimental habits need to be changed slowly and trickle by trickle over appropriately lengthy time periods, with no going back to the old habits. A useful tactic to employ in your resolve to beat cancer would be to declare to someone your intentions about taking control over your health and lifestyle, so that they can encourage and watch over you. That is, someone to hold yourself accountable to in your fight to beat cancer.

The American Cancer Research, like all cancer research based institutions is based on disinformation: All the money for cancer research goes to the greedy pharmaceutical companies who don't want you to know that there are cheap, natural and non-toxic methodologies that may cure and they have no intentions of letting to know about this. Think of the money they would stand to lose if this were well known to the public at large: So it would be natural for them to give you a fatalistic mindset...

-Get wise folks. The main answer lies in nutrition and dealing with toxicity and stress. This includes solutions like: Vitamin B17 nutritional therapy using apricot kernels as this food source and other forms of good nutrition which would act synergistically, Bob Beck's electromagnetic technologies, exercise and a commitment to having a positive outlook in life and not sinking into victim consciousness.

Do profoundly realise, your health is really up to you. It is not in the dictates of some white-coated individual who, by the way, had only received around four hours of training in nutrition during medical school days. Nor is your health determined by some genetics. Maybe you have genetics dormant in you that can serve as a cancer health preventative measure if you had the willingness and resolution to activate it.

The truth is that your health is in your hands and always has been.



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The siren of summer lured me off my writer's path and I went willingly to sit on the ocean's edge and contemplate. Stretched before me was the Atlantic, so far into the horizon that even squinting did not allow me to see its end. When these moments came there was no choice but to stop and raise a hand to shield the sun from my eyes, to pause for the solar rising or setting. All thoughts passed away and my mind was relieved of burdens and bundles of musts and must-nots.

As I shake the sand from my suitcase and out of my shoes I am reluctant to return to the pace and routine I set aside. Vacation is a place where time stops, there is no calendar and no alarm clock. The beach beckons and you go, nothing else is required of your time. Nothing.

Days before I journeyed to the shore I was given a tour of a facility in New York City: Hope Lodge. There I met a team of persons dedicated to serving the needs of people undergoing therapy for cancer. Reminiscent of a five star hotel, Hope Lodge provides patients and their caregivers accommodations during the long treatments related to their disease. Individuals who live at a distance and require a commute over an hour are eligible to be one of the over sixty guests at the Lodge.

Walking along the shore with sea water lapping my ankles I thought long and hard about Hope Lodge. I prayed that I might never have to use the facility for the purpose it was intended and despite the beauty of its interior and the warmth of the staff, I mumbled to myself an entreaty to God that He might spare me that fate.

The people I met on my tour were extremely enthusiastic and excited about the subject of my book and how we could (I could) become a part of the fight against breast cancer. Without knowing a reason to write about a character with breast cancer other than the old stand-by, I had to; I discovered on that tour and during my subsequent meditations by the ocean, a more valid reason.

Perhaps another entity was at work, guiding my hand and my imagination, and perhaps that entity had a knowing that I would be introduced to Hope Lodge and when that day came, which it did, I would recognize the reason.

There is a place where we all must travel, a place along our path that is not illuminated, where darkness rules. The descent into darkness is not unlike being swallowed by the biblical whale. Hope and survival is the message of my story and hope and survival are the premise on which Hope Lodge was built.


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