Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and I want to honor my hubby, Mike for thriving through this diagnosis and for doing everything he can to make his body a cancer fighting machine! I’m not going to throw out a bunch of statistics but I do want people to know that lung cancer kills more people yearly than breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined… let that sink in!!!
Only 5-10 percent of cancers are genetic and the rest are due to the environmental and lifestyle factors! I’m not trying to place blame on people/patients or make them feel bad, but instead trying to encourage everyone to get informed and makes changes both small an big to reduce the chances of getting cancer! President Nixon declared a war on cancer in 1971 but sadly no cure has been found and the statistics haven’t really changed. We need to keep looking for a cure, but also do everything we can to prevent it in the first place! We need to get mad enough at our chances of getting cancer that we do everything we can to prevent it!
Like I’ve said before, I’m not a medical professional so am not giving medical advice I just want to share some things that we’ve done over the last 17+ years. Read and get informed! There are so many good books to read or listen to (I love audible books sped up 1.5X’s to get through faster)! My new favorite which I have already listened to 2 times through is called “The Cancer Whisperer” and ironically it’s about a woman with stage 4 metastatic, incurable Lung Cancer. Some things she suggests and that we do include stress management, getting adequate sleep (7-9 hours), get your immune system working well, clean up our environment to decrease the chemicals in our houses and that we put in and on our bodies, detoxing, exercising and eating healthy, organic, nourishing foods. There are so many diets (vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, paleo, Keto) and conflicting dietary advice so you just need to research and do what you feel is best, but I think we can all agree that eating more vegetables and less processed foods is always better! Eat real food with few ingredients, not boxed/packaged/processed “foods”!
Cancer has hit home again this week as we’ve learned of the deaths, new diagnosis’s and the return/spread of cancer in some people we know as well as people I feel like I know through their blogs. I don’t know about you but I’m mad, and I’m going to keep doing everything I can to prevent cancer so I’m not a statistic!
To Mike and all the other cancer thrivers out there, God bless you and give you strength!
Paula